Updated: October 24, 2017
Managed Exchange/SharePoint is a Managed Hosting product. The standard “Service” consists of the licensing, installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, maintenance and support for software components.
Customer chooses the appropriate plan and options at the time of purchase.
CenturyLink offers two plans: Advanced and Elite, where only one plan can be selected per Customer. Both plans offer unlimited Exchange Mailbox sizes (pooled storage). See detailed list below for plan features and options.
Except as otherwise provided by mandatory applicable law without possibility of contractual waiver and notwithstanding anything in the Master Service Agreement or elsewhere, CenturyLink and its affiliated companies shall not be liable to Customer or indemnify Customer for any claims of infringement of patent, copyright or other intellectual property right related to third party components.
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) associated with this Service Guide is the Managed Hosting Services SLA.
CenturyLink will support upgrades to Major and Minor Releases as part of the standard Service.
CenturyLink compiles, packages, certifies, approves and delivers Software patch branch versions for installation in a Customer environment.
All changes to the CenturyLink managed applications, systems, network and facilities are subject to CenturyLink’s change management process. This process is intended to confirm that work is reviewed for completeness (risk assessment, completed test procedure, metrics for measuring progress, back out procedure, etc.) and accuracy prior to scheduling and implementation. Notifications are posted in the control panel of changes that have a risk of creating service disruption for the customer.
CenturyLink will provide support for the Service during installation, content migration, Customer validation, and 24x7 monitoring and management by the CenturyLink Service Center after installation.
Customer will designate and maintain a Customer Contact during the Service Term (including current contact information). “Customer Contact” means a technical point of contact available 24x7 with sufficient knowledge, authority and access to address configuration issues, event notifications, system or infrastructure modifications and authentication of applicable CenturyLink systems.
Migrations: CenturyLink will provide Customer with a one-time migration from the Customer’s current email Environment to the new Exchange hosting environment.
Customer is provided an online account and end-user control panel. The control panel is designed to give Customer control over Customer’s account and the Services. Support personnel can help Customer to become familiar with the control panel; however, CenturyLink Service Center shall not be expected to perform for Customer the tasks that can be done through the control panel.
CenturyLink provides the ability to provide separate tiers of Administration access to Customer's account; selected and managed by the Customer. Contact Manager can create, manage and delete account contacts. The Technical Administrator can manage selected services and feature modules; enable/disable users and modify corresponding settings.
CenturyLink provides one global address list and one offline address list for Customer’s account as part of the Service. The global address list and offline address list are available to all users within Customer’s account. The global address list contains all mailboxes, contacts and distribution lists for Customer’s account, unless Customer explicitly chooses to hide any of these objects from Customer’s global address list. Customer’s offline address list is a replica of global address list. Customer’s offline address list is used when Customer is working offline in the activated cache mode. The global address list is replicated to offline address list on a daily basis.
CenturyLink provides Advanced Email Security for all Exchange mailboxes as part of the Service. The Advanced Email Security anti-spam protection is based on filtering software that, besides checking against real-time black lists, uses a sophisticated analysis of message header and text to assign a weight to each message. This weight is called a spam score. A higher spam score indicates a higher chance that the message is spam. When the assigned weight exceeds a certain threshold, the filter routes such messages to the Junk Email folder or permanently deletes it, unless the sender is on the white list (Safe Senders list) either for the account or for the individual mailbox. Customer is provided the means to adjust spam sensitivity levels.
Data replication is performed in real time from one set of premium hardware to another. Option for automatic failover is available for an additional fee.
Centurylink provides support for archiving to a third-party datacenter for an additional fee.
Requests for modification to the standard configuration will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Approval of such modifications will be at CenturyLink’s sole discretion. CenturyLink does not guarantee any particular result from non-standard configurations nor can it be held liable in any way for Service performance changes or failures, which result from non-standard configurations.
At Customer’s option and expense, Customer can choose to have CenturyLink complete one or more extended service tasks, such as:
Maximum Company Contacts (GAL) | 5,000 |
Maximum Distribution Lists | 1,000 |
Maximum Message Size | 50 MB |
Recipients per Message | 500 |
Additional Domain | 50 Included |
While Customer’s account is active, CenturyLink shall retain the Customer’s information (Email) including but not limited to the content of private mailboxes and public folders within the database information store, active directory, log files and backup copies. CenturyLink shall not be responsible for retaining any of Customer’s data after account termination. All data is deleted from the servers after Customer’s account is terminated and from backups during scheduled backup rotation. CenturyLink shall not restore, provide on any storage media or send out any data pertaining to terminated accounts, unless specifically requested as an Extended Service Task prior to account termination. Currently each mailbox created has settings to "delete messages in junk email folder after 30 days". This setting will not be changed no matter if custom policy is enabled or not. Retention is calculated by an internal exchange mechanism based on the delivery date. Only one policy can be assigned to each user. After a policy is assigned to a mailbox, notification is sent to the mailbox owner.
Option |
Features |
Advanced Plan |
Elite Plan |
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All Email | Advanced Email Protection | Included | |
DirectoryLink (ActiveDirectory Sync) | |||
Customizable Control Panel | |||
Global Address List | |||
Company Disclaimer | |||
Additional Email Services | Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange Mailboxes | Included | |
One Top-Level Public Folder with Unlimited Subfolders | |||
Mail Retention Policies | |||
Remote Device Management | |||
ActiveSync (iOS, Windows Mobile, Android) | |||
Outlook Backup (Includes 1GB per mailbox) | |||
Organizational Units / Server Site Location | |||
Archive Connector (for 3rd party archive) | |||
Outlook Client Licensing | Add-On | ||
Outlook Backup Additional Storage | |||
POP/IMAP Email | POP/IMAP Mailboxes webmail | Add-On | |
Sync to any POP/IMAP Client | Included | ||
Contact Management | |||
Additional POP/IMAP Storage (1GB increments) | Add-On | ||
OWA Only Email | Calendar, Tasks, Contacts (2GB per Mailbox, pooled) | Available | |
OWA Only with ActiveSync Email | Calendar, Tasks, Contacts (2GB per Mailbox, pooled) | Available | |
Exchange Email Only | Resource Mailboxes | Add-On | |
DLP + Email Continuity | |||
Encrypted Message (per User) | |||
Policy-Based Encryption (per Mailbox) | |||
Additional Top-Level Public Folders (per Folder) | |||
BlackBerry Sync (per User) | |||
Sonian Email Archiving (Personal and eDiscovery) | |||
Email Archive Ingestion | |||
Cross-Site Data Replication (data copied to backup site) |
Options |
Advanced Plan |
Elite Plan |
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Desktop License | Included | Included |
Server License | Add-on | Add-on |
1 GB Backup (per user) | Included | N/A |
2 GB Backup (per user) | N/A | Included |
5 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
10 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
20 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
50 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
100 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
300 GB Backup (per user) | Upgrade | Upgrade |
Options |
Advanced Plan |
Elite Plan |
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1 GB (per Customer) | Included | N/A |
2 GB Plan (per Customer) | Upgrade | Included |
200 MB Plan (per Customer) | Upgrade | |
10 GB Plan (per Customer) | ||
25 GB Plan (per Customer) | ||
50 GB Plan (per Customer) | ||
100 GB Plan (per Customer) | ||
200 GB Plan (per Customer) |
Options |
Advanced Plan |
Elite Plan |
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10 GB (per User) | Add-On | |
50 GB (per User) | ||
100 GB (per User) | ||
150 GB (per User) |
Package |
Advanced |
Elite |
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Skype for Business (Per User) | Add-on | Included |
Skype Enterprise (Per User) | Add-on | Upgrade |
Feature |
Skype for Business |
Skype Enterprise |
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1-to-1 and Multiparty IM/Presence | X | X |
File Transfers | X | X |
Skype-to-Skype Audio/Video Calls | X | X |
Skype-to-Skype High Definition Video | X | X |
Presence and Click-to-Skype from Office Apps | X | X |
PC-to-PC IM, Audio and Video with Users at federated organizations | X | |
Conference Attendee Experience: Join an ad-hoc or scheduled meeting, send/receive audio/video; View shared application, view/write whiteboard - all as an authenticated user | X | |
Conference Presenter Experience: Upload and advance PowerPoint slides, Share Application, Manage roster, Manage Meeting Lobby - all as an authenticated user | X | |
View Application Share Session (Attendee Experience) | X | |
Initiate / Schedule Multi-Party (3+) Audio Conference | X | |
Initiate Multi-Party Video Conference | X | |
Initiate Application Sharing (P2P or Multi-Party) | X | |
Initiate Application White Boarding (P2P or Multi-Party) | X | |
Schedule Web Conferences | X |
See Definitions for Managed Applications Services.