With Office 365, Microsofut now also bits a web service.
Based on Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010. They replace the products previously known as BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite). These were based on Exchange 2007 and Sharepoint 2007. With the new subscription-based services from Office 365, Microsoft offers essential and flexible solutions for your company. Smaller companies also enjoy the advantages that are otherwise reserved only for companies with their own server infrastructure. But larger companies can also benefit from this in order to better ensure access to information for employees who travel a lot. Here is a brief overview of the core products included.
Exchange Online 2010
So that your emails and calendars are always available everywhere. The Exchange Server offers the centerpiece, Whether desktop or notebook you can access your mailbox and your calendar as usual with Outlook (version 2007 or later). On mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets, there are applications that connect to the hosted exchange on the Internet and give you insight into your mails and appointments. But even if they only have access to the Internet via an InternetCafe z, they can access your messages and calendar entries as well as contacts with Outlook Web Access. With Office 365, each user receives a 25 GB mailbox, and the messages to be sent can be up to 25 MB. If you are not reachable by e-mail for a long time, you can inform those people who send you an e-mail by absence note. Another advantage is the possibility to view the calendars of the other users in your company in order to efficiently manage the appointment management. You can also view and process the inbox of your employees, possibly at holiday representatives. For your security in mail traffic, sSe protects the integrated module of the Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange against spam and viruses.
Share Point Online 2010
This is where the first priority lies. The Sharepoint Server gives you a central way to provide your employees with knowledge and important documents. The possibilities have increased compared to the BPOS version, almost infinity. So you have access to documents, information (wiki sites, blogs …), contacts calendar and tasks in a single central location. The documents stored in SharePoint, whether Word, Excel or PowerPoint, can be opened, edited and stored directly with the Office programs installed on your computer. Increase the productivity of employees and teams, with custom views, each user gets only the information he needs. So you keep an overview even in extensive document libraries. Provide your documents with Hingergrund information, so-called tags. This allows you and your employees a more flexible handling of the sites and information. For example, you can assign a document, one or more customers, work areas, responsible employees, etc. Team calendars or holiday calendars can be connected directly from SharePoint to Outlook. In Outlook Calendar view, you have access to all calendar information. In the new version, SharePoint Workspace offers you the possibility to take all information in the SharePoint portal offline and to access all data without an Internet connection. Like Exchange, the Sharepoint portals are also checked and sifted by an integrated virus protection mechanism.
The different versions of the Office 365 family also allow you to obtain the applications for your compuzters in the subscription. The plan E3 includes the complete Office Professional Plus package (including Sharepoint Workspace). The advantage of the subscription-related variant is that as soon as the successor version of Office 2010 is available, you will receive it at no additional cost.