Exchange Online Protection

Exchange Online Protection provides a layer of protection features that are deployed across a global network of data centers, helping you to simplify the administration of your messaging environments. Get enterprise-class reliability and protect against spam and malware, while maintaining access to email during and after emergencies.

Exchange Online Protection - Features

Current Features:

• Eliminate threats before they reach the corporate firewall with multi-layered, real-time anti-spam and multi-engine anti-malware protection.
  
• Protect your company's IP reputation by using separate outbound delivery pools for high-risk email.
  
• Five financially backed SLAs attest to a high quality of service, including protection from 100% of known viruses and 99% of spam.
  
• Globally load-balanced network of data centers helps to ensure a 99.999% network uptime.
  
• Manage and administer from the Exchange Administration Centera single web-based interface.
  
• Near real-time reporting and message trace capabilities provide insight into email environments by retrieving the status of any message that Exchange Online Protection processes.
  
• Active content, connection, and policy-based filtering enables compliance with corporate policies and government regulations.
  
• IT-level phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at no additional cost.
  
• No hardware or software required to install, manage, and maintain, which minimises up-front investment.
  
• Get a predictable payment schedule through a subscription-based service for customers with an on-premises email deployment. Exchange Online Protection is also included in Exchange Online and any Office 365 plan that includes Exchange Online.
  
• Simplify IT environments by reducing the need for in-house email security servers and applications.
  
• Ensure that no email is lost or bounced by automatically queuing email if the destination email server becomes unavailable for any reason.
  
• Get up and running quickly with a simple MX record change.

Exchange Online Protection - System Requirements

Exchange Online Protection and Exchange Hosted Encryption work with any e-mail platform.

Exchange Hosted Encryption requires Exchange Online Protection.

Web applications are accessible by means of a Web browser, such as:

• Internet Explorer 7 or higher
  
• Firefox 3.5 or higher
  
• Safari 3

The Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronisation tool is optional, and requires the following supported operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
  
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
  
• Windows Server 2008 Standard

Additional software required for Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronisation tool:

• Active Directory, with single-forest topology
  
• Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 or Exchange Server 2007 and higher (required for the safe senders feature)
  
• .NET Framework 3.5