help me with exchange server outlook client access

[AMPLIFRIER]

OK yall......
kinda got thrust into the comapny admin position.....they are running winnt4.0 small buisness server......they have Exchange running on it......i can make machines talk to each ohter all day and fix client issues....but......i have zilch experience with exchange server......

as it is now......clients can use web bases access.

what the company wants is for employees to be able to log on to the server over the web and download messages...(pretty much the same as the outlook express set up hotmail has now where you can set up hotmail as an aco**** in outlook express and it will fetch the mail.....then you can create a folder in outlook and pull you messages over to the local drive from hotmail. (they running out of space and they too cheap to fork 100 bucks out for a new drive LOL.)

is there a simple way to set this up?
ive done a little hunting online but not found alot.

im sure i dont have enuff info here to get a resolution....so please ask away!

AMP

[Noevo]

If you have exchange running already why can't you just setup outlook to work with it?

From the client you would choose Exchange Server over Internet E-mail when setting up the persons e-mail. This may require a reinstal of Outlook if you're running Outlook 98 or later. guess I am little confused by the whole web based part. If you are running Exchange server, the web based part is in addition to the basic Exchange server, so you should be able to do both already.

Do you know what server the web based is talking to? Should be the exchange server. then you just use that as the server name in outlook. With outlook you can choose to have the messages stored on the server, on the hard drive, or both (Enable offline access). Not sure if I helped you any or not, hope so. Let me know if I am way below where you're at or if I confused you at all.

[YeOldeStonecat]

He's talking about Outlook Web Access, in which you access your Exchange mailbox through a "virtual Outlook" client which runs through your web browser, pretty much a web page that looks exactly like your Outlook client at the office. Works great, I love it. You can access your office e-mail from anywhere in the world where you have a computer with a recent browser, and an internet connection.

But I'm missing what he's saying. Are you trying to get away from OWA, and go backwards to the old cumbersome Outlook setup with offline folders (*.ost), where you have to painfully synchronize and all that stuff? Or fully download to personal folders (*.pst), instead of the mailbox?

Are these users who only access from the road? Looking to setup VPN to to this instead of RAS?

[Noevo]

Yeah, thats what I thought Cat. We have that setup at work (Outlook Web Access). Was just unclear what he was trying to get away from also. A lot of our users don't like it because our global address book doesn't work with it. people are too bothered to type out 10 characters I suppose, heh.

Fill us in Amp, seems like people here will be able to give ya a hand.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Your address book doesn't work? Which version of Exchange? I know if 5.5, you need the latest service pack for the address book to properly work. In Exchange 2K though, I haven't seen a problem with it.

[Noevo]

Were running 5.5 SP4

Not much of a concern, we pretty much have everyone running citrix now. Man, what a pain in the ass licensing scheme that thing is

[YeOldeStonecat]

Originally posted by Noevo
Were running 5.5 SP4

Not much of a concern, we pretty much have everyone running citrix now. Man, what a pain in the ass licensing scheme that thing is

Yeah, I just starting to learn that a bit more. One of our consultants spent an entire week out at Citrix camp a few weeks ago. I just rebuild one of our Proliant servers with 2KAdv, we installed the latest Citrix, for a "sandbox" to play on.

Some long a$$ serial numbers to type in when you register those, I thought Microsoft was getting bad....man, nothing compared to this.