Exchange and Remote working

[WOTRAC]

Hi

I have an exchange mailbox at work, which I access from my laptop when I logon to the domain at work.
When I go home I logon to my laptop as the local administrator, which at present doesn't have a mailbox setup.

The outlook.ost file is located in my work profile.

I now have a broadband connection and a VPN to work.
How can I set up outlook on my laptop, when at home so that I can connect to the exchange server and get my mails.

Without causing problems when I log back on at work.


Paul

 

[AndyPeck]

Paul

I assume as you posted this in the Exchange 2003 forum, that is what your mail server is running.

For remote access to your mail, research OWA and RPC over HTTPS, these 2 services provide excellent remote access to your email, however RPC over HTTPS does required that your home machine and/or laptop are running XP and Outlook 2003.

However if your VPN terminates at your broadband router, you just need to configure the name/IP information of your exchange server and setup the outlook profile, enable cache mode and change the authentication, your mail administrator should be able point you in the right direction.

 

[WOTRAC]

Hi

Yes we are running exchange 2003 at work.
I already have access to OWA, but this does not appear to give me access to the shared office diary.

Unless we have not got it set up correctly?


Paul

 

[AndyPeck]

Paul

By shared office diary do you mean Public folder configure for calendaring. If you do, that is a function of OWA if configured.

Or to access another person calendar you have been grant access to, check out

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821900

Andy

 

[WOTRAC]

Andy


Could well be as I wasn't involved in the setup.
I will take a look.

Question? Is there nothing I can do by copying the .ost file between my laptop logon profiles.

 

[AndyPeck]

Paul
"RPC over HTTPS" is the way to go for remote users (IMHO)

We set this up for all of hosted clients and for our use and everyone loves it. It works like a dream on broadband connections and even the few dial-up users we support have all given positive feed. But as mentioned before it does require XP and outlook 2003, but it's well worth the move.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/outlookrpchttp.html

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Outlook_2003_Connect_Exchange_2003.html

 

[stompin]

Andy, or anybody else out there... I also want to setup remote access to Exchange 2003 BUT my clients are W2k Pro and will be for at least 6 mths into 2005. So what is the best secure way of accessing remotely with Exch 2003 and W2k Pro except by OWA?? - we have only one Exch SRV so OWA not an option

ThanX

 

[AndyPeck]

Stompin

You will need to research the use of VPN's for secure remote connections between outlook and exchange.

You write: we have only one Exch SRV so OWA not an option.
This is not correct, there are guide lines and best practices to consider, but it is totally possibly to run OWA on 1 server.
We have one hosted client that could not afford the full fat exchange system we offer and instead opted to install everything on one server against our screams of protest (SLA modified to reflect the madness)…So it runs AD, Exchange, AV, Blackberrry, RPC over HTTP for 100 client

 

[stompin]

Andy I know you can run OWA on one SRV if you want to but I was saying opening up my Exch SRV to the internet would not be an option. Yer we can go for secure access but I personally would not like my Mail srv open to the public unless you or somebody else can show me a well worked and very secure method that is being used.

 

[AndyPeck]

Stompin

You will currently have port 25 open, and OWA only requires 443 when setup correctly, Many consider that an acceptable risk. Those that don’t or can afford ISA Server use that as the MS preferred way (see

http://www.isaserver.org).

Otherwise you could implement VPN’s for you remote users, either to your servers or to your hardware firewall.