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What is Outlook Live?

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
  • Windows Live ID authentication
  • Native Outlook 2007 support
  • POP and IMAP client support
  • Outlook client support
  • Outlook Mobile and Exchange ActiveSync clients
Operational efficiency
  • Easy and flexible deployment options
  • A familiar service that takes advantage of your training investments
  • Free e-mail service for students, faculty, and alumni
  • Highly available hosted service
  • Role-based permissions model for delegated administration
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:

About Outlook Live

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