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What is Outlook Live?

Joey Masterson - MSFT

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04/22/09 02:58 PM

Outlook Live is an online hosted e-mail solution using Microsoft's Exchange server product.

Outlook Live is a free, hosted e-mail service available to shools enrolled with Microsoft Live@edu.

Outlook Live provides a professional e-mail experience that offers:

Built-in protection from internal and external threats

Antivirus and anti-spam protection
Automatic encryption with "always on" SSL security (HTTPS)
Supervision policies that help you control mail flow for your organization.
Mailbox plans selectively hide student information from the shared address book to protect privacy.

Anywhere access delivers the Microsoft Office Outlook experience from the desktop to mobile phones

Operational efficiency

Premium feature set

10 GB mailbox storage quota
20 MB message size support
Co-branding support for the Outlook Live client
Shared address book
Shared calendar information and the ability to view other users' availability for efficient scheduling
Web-based administrative tools for self-service management
Outlook Live support for 25 languages

For more information, see the following article on help.outlook.com:

Joey Masterson - MSFT
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