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IN THIS CHAPTER
» Discovering how Exchange Online provides flexibility and reliability
» Understanding the value of anywhere and anytime access
» Finding out how Exchange Online is safe, secure, and in line with compliance standards
Chapter 3
Unleashing the Power
of Exchange Online
If you are like most people, you couldn’t care less about how your email gets into your inbox as long as it does. If your company uses Microsoft products, then chances are you use an application called Outlook to send and receive email.
Outlook also has some other nifty features, including a calendar, the ability to reserve conference rooms, invite people to meetings, store contacts, create your to-do lists and tasks, and even read you your email messages or listen as you dic- tate a message. Although you are probably familiar with the Outlook application, you may not know that it has a behind-the-scenes partner. That partner is Exchange, a server application that handles all the heavy lifting. The Outlook application on your desktop is constantly connecting to the Exchange server to find out what information it should present to you.
Because Outlook and Exchange communicate with each other over a computer network, the physical locations of these two hand-in-hand applications are irrel- evant. All that matters is that they can communicate with each other. The Outlook software can be installed on your workstation on your desk, and the Exchange software may be installed on a server under your desk or down the hall (known as Exchange On-Premises) or in a data center somewhere out there in the cloud (known as Exchange Online).
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