How do enable users to access their email from different PC's?

[jtorrey2]

I need to make sure that my users can access their email from different machines on a daily basis. I dont want to use roaming profiles either. I know that this might be an easy answer to some people, but we are getting rid of GroupWise 5.5 to advance to MICROSOFT.
If anybody have any info???????

 

[Marcs41]

An easy way to do that is to have them use OWA.
All you need is a browser.

Marc
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[ashleym]

Without roaming profiles, OWA is the only way I know of.

AM

 

[jtorrey2]

Is there any other way to do this without using roaming profiles? I cant have people saving large files on their desktops and having them drag those files around with their roaming profiles.

Is there a way I can set a roaming profile up, sooo nobody can save large files to their desktops?
thanks

 

[7139]

Yes, through group policy.

 

[Frankenherder]

Is there a way I can set a roaming profile up, sooo nobody can save large files to their desktops?
thanks

That is what a home Directory is for. A mapped drive is not a roaming profile.

Matt

 

[DBole]

There is a simple way to do this without using Roaming Profiles. However, Roaming Profiles are the best way to go. If you have some one saving a large file to the desktop, yes, it will copy back over to the server. And, yes, that's what the Home Directory is for.

But, if you want to take the time to log into each and every workstation that the users are going to be using, and set up a profile for each user on each workstation. Then you'll run into the problem if they copy a large file to the desktop, and that would be which one they copied it to. At least with Roaming Profiles, you delete the large file from your Desktop, it's removed from all the desktops next time you log into it.

So, in a nut shell, Establish your Roaming Profiles and create a Group Policy to limit the size of your Desktop folder size.

 

[MarkLappin]

Regarding the desktop size and general size of the profile. What if you use a roaming profile, but in the user's home directory setup various folders that support redirection then through GPO redirect desktop, my documents, etc to those folders so they are on the entwork and dont' download but the rest of the profile would.

Mark

 

[koopie]

We use a program called Profile maker from Autoprof. We have a large number of staff that can get their email from almost any PC on the network. It does not matter who is logged into the PC. We have it setup for what is called "walkup profiles". Have a look at the autoprof site.

http://www.autoprof.com