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Features

Every hosted Exchange feature, in one price

There is no standard tier and no premium tier. Everything below is included at £8.00 + VAT per mailbox, per month, because a mail platform that charges extra for shared calendars is not really a mail platform.

  • 40+ capabilities included
  • No feature paywalls
  • Full technical specification below

By area

What the platform does

Four groups: the mail and collaboration features people use daily, the device and sync behaviour, the security and resilience underneath, and the administrative control you get on top.

Everything a business expects from Microsoft Exchange, running on servers we own and manage in the UK.

  • 50 GB mailboxes as standardEvery mailbox starts at 50 GB and extends in 50 GB blocks whenever you need more room.
  • Shared calendars, contacts and tasksFree/busy lookups, room booking and delegate access across your whole organisation.
  • Organisation-wide address listA Global Address List that keeps itself current as people join and leave.
  • Public foldersShared mail, document and calendar folders for the teams that still depend on them.
  • Distribution and dynamic groupsUnlimited groups, moderated distribution and rule-driven dynamic membership.
  • Free shared, room and equipment mailboxesSet up info@, a boardroom calendar and a pool car booking resource without paying for any of them.
  • Send-as and delegate permissionsGrant full access, send-as or send-on-behalf rights from the control panel in seconds.
  • 150 MB attachmentsLarge files still go by email when they have to, without a third-party transfer service.
  • Unlimited aliases and multiple domainsRun every domain you own from a single Exchange organisation at no extra cost.
  • Retention policies and litigation holdApply retention tags, archive policies and legal hold across the organisation.

Clients and devices

Where your mailbox works

One mailbox, synchronised everywhere. Read a message on your phone on the train and it is already read when you reach your desk.

Outlook for Windows

Outlook 2016 and later, including Microsoft 365 Apps. Full cached mode, server-side search, rules and delegate access over MAPI/HTTP.

Outlook for Mac

Current Outlook for Mac connects over Exchange Web Services with full calendar and contact sync.

Outlook Web App

A complete Exchange client in any modern browser, on any operating system, with no software to install.

iPhone and iPad

Native iOS Mail, Calendar and Contacts over ActiveSync, with instant push and remote wipe.

Android

Gmail, Outlook for Android and Samsung Email all connect over ActiveSync with push delivery.

Applications and devices

Authenticated SMTP for scanners, franking machines, CRMs and line-of-business software, plus IMAP and POP3 where they are still needed.

The Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook logos side by side on a blue background

Exchange is the server. Outlook is the client.

People often use the two names interchangeably, but they do different jobs. Exchange is the mail server that holds your mailboxes, runs the address list, resolves free/busy lookups and pushes changes to your devices. Outlook is one of several clients that talk to it.

That distinction matters commercially: your Exchange mailbox price is £8.00 + VAT, and desktop Outlook is optional. If your team already has Office licences, you pay nothing more. If they do not, we can add Microsoft 365 Apps for business at £9.40 per user, or they can use Outlook Web App for free.

Technical specification

The numbers, for the people who ask for them

If you are comparing providers on a spreadsheet, this is the row of the spreadsheet you need.

Technical specification of the hosted Exchange platform
Exchange versionExchange Server Subscription Edition, current cumulative update
Standard mailbox quota50 GB, extendable in 50 GB blocks with no hard ceiling
Archive mailboxOptional in-place archive, 100 GB per block
Maximum message size150 MB send and receive
Aliases per mailboxUnlimited
Accepted domainsUnlimited, included
Shared / room / equipment mailboxesUnlimited, free, not licensed
Distribution and dynamic groupsUnlimited, included
Public foldersIncluded, 25 GB per organisation as standard
Deleted item retention30 days, extendable on request
Deleted mailbox retention30 days
ProtocolsMAPI over HTTP, Exchange Web Services, ActiveSync, Outlook Web App, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP with authentication
EncryptionTLS 1.2 or better enforced in transit; volume encryption at rest
AuthenticationUsername and password, with optional MFA on webmail and the control panel
Anti-spam and anti-virusMulti-layer reputation, content and signature filtering, included
BackupsDaily, held off-host, retained 30 days
Platform resilienceDatabase Availability Group with automatic failover across multiple servers
Data residencyUnited Kingdom only, contractually
Uptime commitment99.9% monthly, backed by service credits
Control panelSolidCP, included for every customer

Need something not listed here — a larger public folder quota, a longer retention window, a journaling rule for a regulator? Ask. Most of it is a configuration change rather than a different product.

Ready to move your email to a UK Exchange platform?

Tell us how many mailboxes you have and who hosts them today. We will send a written quote, a migration plan and a fixed cutover date — usually within one working day.

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