Exchange Online is a service where you pay Microsoft a monthly subscription for them to host your organization’s mail. It is typically cost effective to purchase this subscription, because the entire office suite and other cloud services are usually bundled along with it. Generally speaking, it is cheaper to have this service than it is to run and maintain a datacenter.
With that said, I am writing this post to vent about how Exchange Online, in its current implementation, is not enterprise worthy. This is because there are many crippling flaws with Exchange Online, as it is coupled with Outlook. And these flaws are not happen-chance bugs, but rather massive design flaws akin to Catch 22. Continue Reading