Managed Applications: Exchange/SharePoint

Service Guide

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.

Available Plans

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.

Supported Products

Sold standalone or added to any plan:

  • Microsoft Exchange: 2013 and 2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint: Foundation
  • Microsoft Skype for Business or Skype Enterprise Instant Messaging
  • ShareSync
  • Microsoft PC Backup

Added to any plan:

  • Blackberry Sync
  • Email Encryption
  • Email Archiving

Licensing

  • Licensing for supported products is provided by CenturyLink. Customer may provide their own licensing for Microsoft Outlook or CenturyLink can provide that as well.

Indemnification

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.

Service Level Agreement

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) associated with this Service Guide is the Managed Hosting Services SLA.

Maintenance and Support

Major and Minor Releases

CenturyLink will support upgrades to Major and Minor Releases as part of the standard Service.

Patch Releases

CenturyLink compiles, packages, certifies, approves and delivers Software patch branch versions for installation in a Customer environment.

Change Management

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.

Support

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 Contact

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.

Additional Services

Migrations: CenturyLink will provide Customer with a one-time migration from the Customer’s current email Environment to the new Exchange hosting environment.

Account Management Tool

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.

Access

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.

Global Address List

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.

Security

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 Recovery

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.

Data Archiving

Centurylink provides support for archiving to a third-party datacenter for an additional fee.

Custom Configuration

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.

Extended Service Tasks

At Customer’s option and expense, Customer can choose to have CenturyLink complete one or more extended service tasks, such as:

  • Change Account Name
  • Export a list of all Account items into .xls file
  • Grant Users Send as Permissions from a Distribution List
  • Mail-enabled Publish Sub-folders
  • Outbound Email Routing/Inbound Email Restrictions
  • Point in Time Restore of Mailbox Data/Public Folder Data
  • Restore SharePoint Backup
  • Undelete a Mailbox
  • Other: Centurylink will consider other tasks on a case by case basis"

Exchange Limitations

Maximum Company Contacts (GAL) 5,000
Maximum Distribution Lists 1,000
Maximum Message Size 50 MB
Recipients per Message 500
Additional Domain 50 Included

Data Retention

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.

 

Tasks performed on behalf of the customer include:

Licensing

  • ­Acquire licensing and media permissions for the Service
  • Acquire and maintain a contracted support agreement with vendor for the Service
  • Monitor license renewal activities, and manage the implementation environments for consistency

Installation and Configuration

  • ­Engage and coordinate appropriate resources required to deliver pre/co-requisite services in support of the Service
  • ­Coordinate the planning of technical meetings and their participants between CenturyLink and Customer
  • ­Provide guidance to migrate Customer from legacy system to CenturyLink
  • ­Provide installation and configuration of the requisite components related to the Service
  • ­Control Panel account creation
  • ­Mailbox creation of initial setup of mailboxes and add-on enablement
  • ­Import data into new accounts

Maintenance and Support

  • Provide 24/7 support to include incident management, trouble tickets and escalations
  • Provide notification of scheduled maintenance to Customer technical contacts

Plan Features and Options

Email Options and Features

Option

Features

Advanced Plan

Elite Plan

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)

PC Backup (Pooled Storage)

Options

Advanced Plan

Elite Plan

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

SharePoint: Foundation

Options

Advanced Plan

Elite Plan

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)

ShareSync

Options

Advanced Plan

Elite Plan

10 GB (per User) Add-On
50 GB (per User)
100 GB (per User)
150 GB (per User)

Skype

Package

Advanced

Elite

Skype for Business (Per User) Add-on Included
Skype Enterprise (Per User) Add-on Upgrade

Features Supported for Each Skype Package

Feature

Skype for Business

Skype Enterprise

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

Definitions

See Definitions for Managed Applications Services.