<p>News Microsoft Supporting S/MIME Security for Exchange Server, Outlook and Office 365</p><p>Microsoft has implemented the S/MIME e-mail security standard across its hosted and server-based Exchange products, the company announced this month.</p><p>The Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions standard, currently at version 3, has been used in past Microsoft e-mail solutions, including older Outlook client products and Exchange Server 5.5 on up, according to Microsoft's TechNet description of S/MIME. However, this month, Microsoft added it to Exchange Online as part of its Office 365 services, as well as to Exchange Server 2013 via this week's release of Service Pack 1.</p><p>In addition, Microsoft disclosed this week that Outlook Web App, its browser-based version of the Outlook e-mail client, will be getting support for S/MIME by "early April" this year. However, the use of S/MIME in the Outlook Web App is only supported using Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser or later versions at present. In contrast to Outlook Web Apps, the Outlook desktop e-mail client already has S/MIME support via the use of Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, according to Microsoft's announcement today.</p><p><a href="http://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/02/26/mime-security-for-exchange-server.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>