That's certainly an option, but a much more costly one IMHO.
-----Original Message----- From: Hague, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:43 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Port 135 and Exchange Issue Have you considered Terminal Server or (better yet) Citrix? This works wonders for us - full Outlook & Exchange as well as all the other apps we run. We only have a dozen or so users so far but my understanding is that Terminal by itself on one decent server (dual Xeon 2.0GHz/1.5GB RAM) is fine for 20 or so clients simultaneously. Beyond that, Citrix on top of Terminal is the way to go. Citrix also provides better support for local printers, sound cards, etc plus a host of additional functionality. Either 1 requires only a single port through the firewall which hasnt been blocked by any ISPs (yet?) and the traffic is already encrypted although I dont imagine its as "tight" as most VPN solutions. The other thing we found so convenient is the "Advanced" Terminal client which is simply a web page that loads the client software through an ActiveX control in an IE session. The directions to get our clients set up was litterally "go to wwww.whatever.com and follow the instructions". There is some work to do getting the apps set up properly but common apps like Outlook, Word and Excel are very well documented. Getting our custom apps running wasnt near as difficult as I had expected either. The big trick for us is handling profiles because some of our clients can not have access to certain apps that other clients need so we had to modify some profiles manually but with so few clients it hasnt been a big deal. Jeff Hague MCSE Network Manager Randolph-Macon College Ashland, VA -----Original Message----- From: Hank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 3:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Port 135 and Exchange Issue We are trying to recover from ISPs closing down port 135. We have an dedicated Exchange Server at a hosting company. 20 of our 23 people scattered around the country can not use the full functionality of Outlook/Exchange because of this problem. We are a classic case study of how a company has suceeded in business by using most of the functionality of Outlook/Exchange. We built our 3 year old company's communications, task management, and database using the Exchange Platform, including extensive use of custom 'forms' that track hundreds of tasks and our workflow. The ISP's closing out port 135 has brought us to our knees. We are scambling just trying to stay on schedule with our committments to our clients. I have no hope that the ISPs will turn open up 135 again, so I also need an alternative way to connect to the *full* functionality we had before, or be forced to migrate completely off exchange and rebuild our entire infrastructure using another platform. We have tried to implement a VPN solution, but now realize that unless we run the connection on our client and have a full internet connection at the same time, this will not work for us. We do not know how to do this. We must have full access to the internet and exchange at the same time because of the nature of our service we provide. Any ideas? Regards, Hank _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
