Deprecating Support for Microsoft SmartScreen Filters
The majority of emails sent daily around the globe is spam - no corporate mail server should lack a spam-filtering software. In the past, many businesses relied on Microsoft's SmartScreen Filters.
The SmartScreen Filters were a service Microsoft offered until November 2016. The filters ran on Exchange Servers and scanned incoming emails. For each email a spam confidence level was set. If the level was too high, the email was marked as spam and moved to the junk folder by Outlook.
Support for Microsoft SmartScreen Filters was deprecated on November 1 2016. No further updates will be released, the filters' reliability continues to drop. Microsoft states that the filters did not work well enough to warrant continued support.
SmartScreen Alternative
Exchange Server Toolbox improves your local Exchange Server with spam and virus protection and adds a secure email archive as well as a flexible rule system.
Cloud solutions mean monthly bills: Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (1 USD per user and month) and the Exchange Online Archive (3 USD per user and month) can be expensive assets. Exchange Server Toolbox has no monthly fee. Buy the license once and use it as long as you like. You will even get 12 months of free updates and technical support!
Let's compare the costs (only software prices considered; Information as of March 1, 2019):
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Microsoft Exchange
Online Protection
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Microsoft Exchange
Online Archive
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Exchange Server Toolbox
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Spam filter |
Ja
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No
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Ja
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Anti-Virus |
Ja
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No
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Ja
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Email Archive |
No
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Ja
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Ja
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Rule System |
Ja
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Ja
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Sample Calculation (for 100 users) |
1,200 USD p.a. |
3,600 USD p.a. |
489 USD one-time payment |
Privacy is taken seriously: Exchange Server Toolbox processes the emails in your company network - not on external servers.
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