MICROSOFT FOREFRONT ONLINE PROTECTION FOR EXCHANGE

Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) helps protect your businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. FOPE provides you with a layer of protection features deployed across a global network of secure data centers. The hosted online services model requires no hardware or software installation and provides you with a predictable payment schedule through a subscription-based service.

Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE) is an add-on service for FOPE that provides you with a convenient, easy-to-use e-mail encryption service that helps you safely deliver confidential business communication.

Learn more about Forefront Online Protection for Exchange on the Microsoft Exchange Server website.

Benefits

Key benefits of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange include:

Comprehensive Protection

• Provides multi-engine anti-virus and multi-layered anti-spam
• Helps eliminate threats before they reach your corporate firewall
• Helps ensure business policy compliance using Regular Expressions based pattern matching
• Easy-to-use identity based encryption solution through the Exchange Hosted Encryption service add-on

Enterprise-Class Reliability

• Scales to meet the needs of your enterprise using a globally load-balanced network of data centers
• Helps ensure that no email is lost or bounced in the network by automatically queuing email for up to five days in case your servers are unavailable
• Live phone support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at no additional cost
• 90 day Implementation Project Manager Onboarding support for qualifying accounts at no additional cost

Reduced Costs

• Save time on anti-spam management with FOPE; freeing up your network and server resources
• Helps save costly bandwidth by delivering only clean mail to your corporate network
• Help reduce your up-front capital investments using a predictable, subscription-based payment model

Financially Backed SLAs

• Five financially backed SLAs attest to a high quality of service: 
• 100% known virus protection
• At least 98% spam e-mail detection
• <1 in 250,000 e-mails false positive ratio
• 99.999% Network uptime
• Rapid e-mail delivery (average delivery commitment of less than 1 minute)

 

To learn more about the five financially backed SLAs, review the FOPE SLA Terms and Conditions.

 

How To Buy

You can purchase Forefront Online Protection 2010 for Exchange from authorized resellers or through Microsoft Volume Licensing. An additional 40% price discount is available for all new and renewing customers who purchase via the Open, Select Plus, and Licensing programs now through June 30th, 2012. For more information:

 

• On Forefront licensing, download the Pricing and Licensing Guide.
• On configuring products, programs, and pricing options visit the Microsoft Product Licensing Advisor.
• To help boost productivity within your organization sign up for the Microsoft Software Assurance Program.
• To take advantage of the 40% price discount, visit the Microsoft Volume Licensing site.

 

If you have questions, please contact a Microsoft representative at (800) 426-9400 from the United States or call (877) 568-2495 in Canada.