Perhaps this is an odd question.
We are a small office and have limited resources.
Currently, all of our employees have Outlook 2000 installed on their machine, and they use that for contacts, meetings, and e-mail.
That machine is having issues at the moment - crashes relatively a lot.
One of the options we are considering, since we are so small (under 20 employees) is to do the e-mail offsite with our webserver.
I know that Outlook will allow checking of multiple POP3 mail accounts, so this doesn't worry me at all.
But I would like for them to still be able to access the global contacts and the shared calendar for meetings and the like.
This is in the hopes that Exchange will 1) allow one to just not run e-mail through it, and 2) the reduction of e-mail through the server will help it with its uptime (currently we are rebooting once or twice a month - which seems to be the best we can get on this).
It seems that we would need to keep the email service if for nothing else than intraoffice calendar requests and the like.
Again, I know this is an odd question on an Exchange board, and I will fully admit that Exchange is not my area of expertise.
It is just that we have enough problems as it is and I am considering our options of what could be the easiest/fastest/cheapest way to resolve this issue.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter.
We are a small office and have limited resources.
Currently, all of our employees have Outlook 2000 installed on their machine, and they use that for contacts, meetings, and e-mail.
That machine is having issues at the moment - crashes relatively a lot.
One of the options we are considering, since we are so small (under 20 employees) is to do the e-mail offsite with our webserver.
I know that Outlook will allow checking of multiple POP3 mail accounts, so this doesn't worry me at all.
But I would like for them to still be able to access the global contacts and the shared calendar for meetings and the like.
This is in the hopes that Exchange will 1) allow one to just not run e-mail through it, and 2) the reduction of e-mail through the server will help it with its uptime (currently we are rebooting once or twice a month - which seems to be the best we can get on this).
It seems that we would need to keep the email service if for nothing else than intraoffice calendar requests and the like.
Again, I know this is an odd question on an Exchange board, and I will fully admit that Exchange is not my area of expertise.
It is just that we have enough problems as it is and I am considering our options of what could be the easiest/fastest/cheapest way to resolve this issue.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter.
