The next in a series of blog posts on the differences between the plan offerings in Office 365.
Product
1 – Lync
2 – SharePoint
3 – Exchange
4 – Enterprise Suites
5 – Small Business Suite
6 – Office Web Apps
7 – Office 2010 Professional Plus
8 – Kiosk Suites
|
Feature |
Exchange Online |
Exchange Online |
Exchange Online |
|
Mailbox size |
500 megabytes (MB) |
25 gigabytes (GB)* |
Unlimited** |
|
Outlook Web App |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
POP |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
IMAP |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Outlook Anywhere (MAPI) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Exchange Web Services |
No*** |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Inbox rules |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Delegate access |
No (cannot access other users’ mailboxes, shared mailboxes, or resource mailboxes) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Instant messaging interoperability in OWA |
No |
Yes (requires Lync Online or Microsoft Lync Server 2010) |
Yes (requires Lync Online or Microsoft Lync Server 2010) |
|
SMS notifications |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Custom retention policies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Multi-mailbox search |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Personal archive |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Voicemail |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
Legal hold |
No |
No |
Yes |
*25 GB of storage apportioned across the user’s primary mailbox and personal archive
**25 GB of storage in the user’s primary mailbox, plus unlimited storage in the user’s personal archive. Refer to the personal archive section of this document for further information regarding unlimited storage in the archive
***Direct access to Kiosk user mailboxes via Exchange Web Services is not permitted. However, line of business applications can use Exchange Web Services impersonation to access Kiosk user mailboxes
All subscriptions include organization-wide capabilities such as journaling, transport rules, and premier anti-spam and antivirus filtering via Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.
User subscriptions are not required for conference rooms and shared mailboxes. These special mailbox types do not have login credentials—instead, licensed users with the appropriate permissions manage them via delegation.
Office 365 Suite E1 = Exchange Online Plan 1
Office 365 Suite E2 = Exchange Online Plan 1
Office 365 Suite E3 = Exchange Online Plan 2
Office 365 Suite E4 = Exchange Online Plan 2
Office 365 Suite P = Exchange Online Plan 1
Exchange online has messaging limits (refer to http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd630704.aspx#RecipientLimits). Summary:
These limits are applied to every e-mail message.
Message size limit The maximum total size of an e-mail message. The total size includes the message header, the message body, and any file attachments.
Note An e-mail client may limit the size of an individual file attachment to a value much less than the message size limit. For example, in Outlook Web App, the maximum individual file attachment size is 10 MB.
Limit = 25 MB
File attachments limit The maximum number of file attachments allowed in an e-mail message. Even if the total size of all the file attachments doesn’t violate the message size limit, there is still a limit on how many attachments are allowed in the message.
Limit = 125 attachments
Subject length limit The maximum number of text characters allowed in the subject line of an e-mail message.
Limit = 255 characters
Multipart message limit The maximum number of message body parts that are allowed in a MIME multipart message.
Limit = 250 parts
Embedded message depth limit The maximum number of forwarded e-mail messages that are allowed in an e-mail message.
Limit = 30 embedded messages
Recipient and sender limits
Recipient limit The maximum number of message recipients allowed in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields.
Limit = 500 recipients
Message rate limit The maximum number of e-mail messages that can be sent from a single e-mail client per minute. The client is identified by the user account.
Limit = 30 messages per minute
Recipient rate limit The maximum number of recipients that can receive e-mail messages sent from a single cloud-based mailbox in a 24 hour period. After the limit has been reached, messages can’t be sent from the mailbox until the number of messages sent in the past 24 hours drops below the limit. The recipient rate limit applies to messages sent to recipients inside and outside your organization. For more information, see Bulk E-Mail and Daily Recipient Rate Limits.
- Microsoft Live@edu Limit = 500 recipients per day
- Office 365 for professionals and small businesses Limit = 500 recipients per day
- Office 365 for enterprises Limit = 1,500 recipients per day
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