We are exploring the possibility of introducing Copilot for Exchange Server (on-premises). Your feedback on this subject will help us understand your interest and requirements.
If this is of interest to you, please take a moment to complete this short survey:
https://forms.office.com/r/DwAKJLSJV1
The Exchange Team
I prefer Copilot in the actual classic Outlook application, not in the new Outlook garbage, which is nothing more than a website embedded in a window, very slow, very limited, consuming a lot of resources, few features compared to the actual Outlook real application, does not connect to Exchange On-Premises, and to top it all off, everything is stored in the Microsoft cloud, including third-party accounts and passwords, which means that this new Outlook is blocked in most companies and is not an option.
How about addressing actual items your on-prem customers want:
- Removing basic auth across the product stack and making it easier to integrate MFA solutions such as DUO/RSA etc across more than web-based portals that third parties have filled in (i.e. ActiveSync, EWS, OAB distribution etc).
- Not making the licensing for on-prem products so ridiculously uneconomical to push your cloud-first agenda.
Customers have a legitimate requirement to keep data on-premises for data solvently, privacy or other business related requirements.
Little tip Microsoft - a company that doesn't listen to its customer base and pushes its own agenda will lose confidence with the market and eventually fail.
FYI - I like Microsoft 365 it fills a big gap - but it's not for everyone and customers should be given a fair option with a suite of products under the Microsoft umbrella.
