Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010 1

[outonalimb]

Hope someone can help with this...

Our director has just bought a Mac with Office for Mac 2011 installed. We run Exchange 2003 so Outlook 2011 doesn't work. The director has said, "just make it work please!"

The current scenario is that we have 30 Exchange 2003 users and a Windows 2003 AD domain. There is no money at present to upgrade everyone to Exchange 2010.

After googling, I have come to the conclusion that it may be possible to install Exchange 2010 into our network to act as a bridge to Office 365. Outlook 2011 would then use the Office 365 account. According to Microsoft, I can install Exchange 2010 in hybrid mode for free to allow legacy connection to Exchange 2003 -

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/licensing-exchange-online-email.aspx.

My question is does anyone have an article\instructions on how to achieve this??

If anyone can think of another idea or solution, then I would be eternally grateful!

Many thanks,

 

[ShackDaddy]

I think you are heading down the wrong track. You are trying to buy a purple track suit to match a purple pinkie ring.

You don't want to install an Exchange 2010 server in hybrid mode. To make it work, you'd have to spend 10+ hours getting there, and you've have to create hybrid cloud environment just to put your director's mailbox in the cloud to support this Outlook client.

Easiest thing might be to uninstall Outlook 2011 and install Entourage 2008 (not the one with Web Services Extensions) instead. Or simply connect to your Exchange 2003 server using IMAP from Outlook 2011 instead of trying to use MAPI/ActiveSync/WebDav.

Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com

 

[58sniper]

I would agree. Move them all to the cloud, or move none of them.

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