Overview


Exchange Online Protection

 Cloud-based email protection for your on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, legacy Exchange Server versions, or for any other on-premises SMTP email solution.

Security and reliability

Exchange Online Protection provides advanced security and reliability to help protect your information.

  • 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 datacenters helps to ensure a 99.999% network uptime.


Stay in control

Maintain control over your environment while gaining email protection from Microsoft.

Manage and administer from the Exchange Administration Center—a 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.

Easy to deploy and maintain

It's easier than ever to protect your organization from external threats.

  • No hardware or software required to install, manage, and maintain, which minimizes 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.