NACS Exchange

Introduction

OIT offers the Microsoft Exchange platform to departments who desire a feature-rich environment which integrates email, calendar and group communications. Clients gain rich and efficient access—to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more—no matter where they are or what type of device they are using, without burdening local IT resources.

Exchange at TechnoExpo 2008

OIT presented the Exchange service at TechnoExpo 2008. Our slides are available as a PDF file:
2008TechnoExpo.pdf

Central Services, Local Freedom

OIT manages, so you don't have to:

Software administration, including maintenance and patching
Server hardware, replacements and upgrades
Storage management
Upgrade planning, provision and implementation
Performance trending
Backups, including single-user data restores
24x7 monitoring and service response

Our servers are housed in the Academic Data Center, an environment with the proper power and cooling infrastructure to keep servers happy.

Client Software

NACS Exchange supports:

Outlook
Outlook Web Access
Outlook Mobile Access
Exchange ActiveSync (for PDAs)
Microsoft Entourage
Standards-based POP/IMAP/SMTP clients

Active Directory

OIT's Exchange service is housed in a dedicated Active Directory forest, AD.UCI.EDU. Departments are allocated an "OU" container and given complete administrative purvey over that container; departmental IT staff are free to administer their user and computer objects as needed, while s takes care of the Exchange environment.

Service Pricing

Exchange Service Pricing
	Storage	Pricing	Term
Default User Mailbox	1 GB	$70.00	Annual
Additional Storage	1 GB	$10.00	Annual

Inquire Within

We welcome inquiries regarding this service. Please email oit@uci.edu.