Tag: Email Collaboration Service

On April 1, Microsoft announced the general availability for the High-Volume Email (HVE) solution together with details of the PAYG charges incurred to send email to internal recipients, which is all that HVE can do. Microsoft will enable HVE charging on June 1, 2026, Before then, you’ll need to create a billing policy and link it to a valid Azure subscription if you want to continue to use HVE.

HVE and ECS are two competing Microsoft Cloud Email Services. At least, they seem to compete. In reality, HVE and ECS serve different target audiences. HVE is all about internal email services for apps and devices while ECS is for high volume external mailings like customer newsletters. We tested both services by sending subscription reminder notifications to Office 365 for IT Pros readers.