Re: Experience outsourcing student email to Live@edu

["Harry E Flowers (flowers)" <flowers () MEMPHIS EDU>]

If you're currently using Exchange for student e-mail, there are some new features in Live@Edu R4 for setting up a 
federated environment that might be attractive.  It's probably too new to get feedback from anyone but a beta tester of 
release 4 at this point.

We're in the "early evaluation stage" ourselves; we currently run everything in-house on Exchange, but are evaluating 
Live@Edu and Google options for the future, whether just students or possibly including faculty and staff.  Judging 
from what I've heard from Microsoft, I think the "not there yet" applies to moving faculty and staff because of the 
"one size fits all" setup.  That, too, could be changing in another year, though the MS folks are careful not to commit 
to anything yet.

We don't use Exchange edge servers, though, we have our own SMTP and mail routing servers in front of them, and whether 
we can move those to the cloud is another part of the puzzle (right now, the answer looks to be "no" if we want control 
over blacklist/whitelist/greylist and anti-phishing/spam functionality).
-- 
Harry Flowers
Manager, Systems Software
Information Technology Division
The University of Memphis


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Linda 
VanHorn
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:09 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Experience outsourcing student email to Live@edu

Tufts is evaluating Live@edu vs Google for student email. We'd like to 
hear from schools with Live@edu experience (good or bad) in the areas of 
security, privacy and contract negotiations.  If you'd rather  talk with 
us privately, please email me offline.


Regards -
Linda VanHorn, GCIH
System/Security Analyst, Information Security
Tufts University UIT / 617-627-5580
linda.VanHorn () tufts edu