Microsoft Outlook is one of the most used mail clients for businesses and organizations. A growing number of organizations are choosing to go with Microsoft Outlook Exchange as their email solution. And the popularity of Microsoft Outlook isn’t just due to the brand recognition. The reliability of the service, as well as its many integrated parts, makes it ideal for business. The Outlook email client is provided by Microsoft on the Microsoft Exchange Server.

To use Microsoft Outlook Exchange, organizations must invest in a server to host their data from the application. For many businesses, it’s most cost-efficient to host data on a third-party server rather than hosting its own data on a private server (a hosted Exchange server).