Exchange 2000.... mobile access for christmas

[IndyGill]

Hi

I am a pretty new to this Exchange 2000 administration and I was hoping somebody maybe able to give e some advice or recommend a suitable article.

I have a user that requires remote acces to his email account via his laptop over the christmas period. I was wondeing what the best way to do this wold be... as I only have an afternoon to set it up. The user currently has an offline folders set up which just basicallly allows him to view all his emal when not on the network.

So I thought I could use a pop 3 mail account to download and send emails, which I have set up however found that when you dial into the account it downloads the whole mail box again rather than updating the mailbox with new items. How do I stop this?

But then i read a very brief article explaining that you can get your emails uing offlines folders via a dial up. Is this true and I would be grateful fr any help or articles you could recomend.

Many thanks in adavance

 

[brontosaurus]

How about OWA? It installs by default and should be operational...looks like you've already got a dial up, so shouldn't be too tough...

 

[rrsub]

OWA would be the easiest,
POP3 a no go
IMAP the next choice
Exchange client through Outlook requires some configuration.

For IMAP, open port 143 to the Exchange server and set his IMAP setting to your server, SMTP to his ISP server.

For Exchange client, create a host file with the IP address and name of the exchange server and synchronize.

 

[Marcs41]

or, if it is for a short period of time, just auto-forward that users email to his/her home address? The solution is out there.