Salesforce Exchange question

[frostbyte5014]

Hi Guys!

I have a client that uses Salesforce and today they asked me about setting up an exchange server. First let me step back and say I'm from the old days of building your own exchange server and maintaining it inhouse. I don't know a lot about the hosted exchange. Can someone recommend the best setup for this project?

 

[freedomit]

If your UK based then speak to MessageExchange as they resell both hosted exchange and Office365

 

[4ycr]

Appriver should do this, i know @callthatgirl uses them or @YeOldeStonecat might be able to point you to others as well.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

If you plan on reselling more and more down the road, there is no higher profitable path than signing up with Microsofts "CSP" program. Basically you purchase Office licensing at true wholesale rates, resell it at MSRP or whatever you want, and make potentially greater than 20 even 25%. We do this, because we've built a lot of O365 clients, and we love the recurring revenue.

Next is Microsofts basic reseller program, where you get a commission check of like 6% of what you sold.

Or resell through a big hosting reseller...like Appriver. This is good for techs who do not want to support O365 for their clients, as Appriver offers support direct to your client. They charge like 2 dollars per mailbox extra per month for their support part. And give you the 6% commission.

Or become a partner at RackSpace...they offer it Pretty good pricing.

Yeah, I too come from installing Exchange locally, going back to 5.5 on NT 4 and we did tons of Exchange installs up into the Exchange 2010 and early 2013 days.
With Exchange 2013...ESM went to browser based. So you'll see pretty much no difference in managing O365 from Exchange 2013 and onward.