Microsoft Online Services give your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting hosted online—quickly, easily, and without the upfront costs of an on-premise deployment. The suite of productivity tools enables you to communicate and collaborate efficiently and effectively, while enabling your IT resources to focus on more business-critical tasks. And with services hosted by Microsoft, you can have peace of mind knowing that experts are managing your IT and your services will be available when you need them.
Features and Benefits
Microsoft Online Services make it easy for you to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services.
These hosted services include the following:
Exchange Online
Provide employees access to e-mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices—while helping to protect against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded, and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet simple remote Web-based console.
SharePoint Online
Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks through a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich team collaboration capabilities that enable you to flexibly and efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow.
Office Live Meeting
Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting provides your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel!
Office Communications Online
Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and IM capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.
How it Works
Microsoft Online Services can give you the flexibility to decide which services to have hosted and which to keep on-premise, allowing you to quickly and easily extend new capabilities to your organization without straining your IT resources. There is no additional hardware to provision; no additional server software to buy, install, or configure; and no expensive maintenance required. With simple, straightforward services that are easily deployed and scaled, you can find the solution that works best for you, your budget, and your company’s changing needs.
Each Microsoft data center, located strategically throughout the world, houses a highly reliable complex of equipment that provides seamless connectivity to the Microsoft Online suite of services. This global network of geo-redundant data centers provides around the clock access to your business-critical collaboration services, and helps keep your data safe.
With Microsoft Online Services, your IT staff retains control over the services offered to your end users. Microsoft Online Services work seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory®, so you can continue to manage user policies centrally and control which services are available via your existing users. A single administrative panel—with consoles for provisioning, usage, monitoring, and support—enables simple and centralized management. And your users can enjoy the convenience of a single sign-on to access all their hosted services.
Why Microsoft?
Microsoft provides a level of expertise and experience that comes from a highly successful history of hosting enterprise services such as Office Live Meeting and Exchange Hosted Services. Microsoft Online Services reliably deliver 99.9 percent scheduled uptime and carries a financially backed service level agreement. We are committed to developing and delivering innovative solutions that enable organizations to get the tools they need to be successful now and in the future.
Wherever you want to take your business, Microsoft can deliver tools and resources to help you reach your potential. Learn more about how you can use Microsoft Online Services to get the powerful communication and collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting hosted online—quickly, easily, and without the upfront costs of an on-premise deployment.
