Hotdesk

[reepa]

Hi all

We have 30 guys in our sales team, our company director has decided that these will not be based at any specific desk, can Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2003 be setup to Hotdesk and if so what is the best way to do this.

Thanks in advance

 

[bobej]

We have done this using RIS you just set the server name and %username% and it then picksup the user from AD

 

[reepa]

Hi thanks for the info, could you give me some specifics.

Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

RIS? That's remote installation services. You don't want that for hotdesking.

Use roaming profiles. Set it all up in AD, home folders etc. Set the profile as \\servername\users\%username%\profile or similar. Then after first logon / logoff sequence, their entire profile is roaming - not just email but desktop pictures, icons etc.

Job done.

 

[58sniper]

Roaming profiles have their own issues, though.

There are a lot of third party tools that can be run in the login script to create a MAPI profile on the fly.

I've used mapigen in the past, which is real easy, but doesn't enable cached mode (it predates Exchange 2003).

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[rliebsch]

Outlook Web Access is fairly robust, what with drag and drop and all.
It might work sufficiently...

Combine that with roaming profiles...

Though the profile roaming can become quite network intensive...

Robert Liebsch
Stone Yamashita Partners

http://www.stoneyamashita.com/