Service Level Agreements

A service level agreement (SLA) is a written agreement documenting the target percentage of time a service must be available and assigning penalties if it is not.

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  • Standard and Dedicated offerings. Exchange Online offers 99.9 percent scheduled uptime. Organizations will be financially compensated when this uptime is not met.

  • On-premises solution. The business and end users have expectations about the availability of their messaging service. Most organizations, however, don’t formalize these expectations in the ...

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