use Outlook as it's intended - as an exchange client, not imap or pop3. then you get all the collaborative features of exchange (scheduling, public folders, custom forms etc etc). without this you're not really justifying the outlay for exchange.
give the laptop users offline folders and set up OWA for when users go to other computers. don't bother with roaming profiles, major headache imo. get a good exchange book and read up - pay particular attention to disaster recovery. dan. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 15 January 2002 16:30 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Need advice from the Gurus (mobile users question) > > > Hello, > > Our present scenario is the following: Corporate users, that have > a PC on their desk. These users, *may* travel to another location in > which they will use a PC sitting on someone else's desk. And about > half of these employees will have a laptop - in which they work from > home, and travel on the road. Either way, they need to have access > to all new mail that comes in, in addition to all their old mail, > so they can always have the ability to refer to any old messages. > > In all of these cases, they need access to their e-mail. Before we > installed our Exchange Server, we were using POP3 access exclusively > and as we all know, POP3 clients typically pull their mail from the > server, when retrieving their messages. Yes, you CAN set things up > to leave their mail on the server, but things get funny once in a > while, and their mail clients lose track of what messages they have > already retrieved from the server, versus which ones they already > have on their hard drive. (so sometimes, they have like a 1,000 new > messages, when in reality they only have a few new ones) I am sick > of dealing with that problem - because it happens way too often. > > Also, some people accidentally leave their machines on when they go > home at night. All just to go home and find out that they have no > new messages - because their office PC steals all their e-mail. > > We just migrated our users from Ipswitch's IMail server, to our new > Exchange Box - and the above reasons are why we decided to do this. > I am very impressed with Exchange Server - although it is quite > complex, I believe it's the answer to all our problems. > > NOW this is where I need your help. I was thinking about doing the > following: > > Get rid of POP3 altogether, and use IMAP from now on. This way, the > laptop users can still take all their mail with them when they travel > and still have their old mail they can refer to if they are unable to > get online to connect to the server. > > I believe IMAP allows you to synchronize your local mail with the mail > on the server correct? Also, for corporate users with their > own laptop > OR those that only have access to a public terminal - I was thinking > that they could use OWA to handle all of their e-mail issues. And > the fact that all mail remains on the server at all times, no matter > which method the employees use to get their e-mail, the mail will > always be there for them. > > So bottom line is - IMAP and OWA correct? Are there any > other suggestions > that anybody can offer to help tackle this problem? > > Thanks in advance - and sorry for the long post, > > Mike > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
