MS Outlook with Novell

[myrzo]

We have used Pegasus email in conjunction with a Novell server and now wish to switch to MS Outlook. How do we continue to update user groups 'centrally' so that staff may use them through Outlook? Any tips very welcome

 

[terry712]

outlook is a a mail client - nothing more
you need to supply more info

the netware server is irrelevant in the equation
are you planning to retain pegasus or are you saying that you want to implement exchange as your mail system

 

[myrzo]

Terry,

We are going to ditch Pegasus and use Outlook but the IT manager says we cannot set up/maintain user groups at one central source using Outlook with a Novell Server.. He says it needs a windows server. Myrzo

 

[terry712]

again outlook is a mail client - it can do nothing without a backend to support it - in fact personally i dont think it does much with that either but i'm not an outlook fan

what mail system are you planning to implement
you can run groupwise on the netware server and use outllok as a client or better still use groupwise client or if you are going the route that i suspect he is meaning then you are wanting to install an ms server and install exchange and use outlook against that

top tip though - going outlook route get use to pst fixing , spend a lot more money on upgrading your virus ptotection (you will need it)

 

[myrzo]

Terry,

Can you explain about running Groupeise on a netware server as it may be a long tiem before we change to a MS server.

Thanks

 

[LawnBoy]

myrzo,
Outlook is an email client (so is Pegasus). It fetches mail from an email Post Office, which runs on a server. Outlook never talks to a server, it only talks to the Post Office; and it doesn't care what kind of server that PO is running on. It only cares what the PO is.

The Post Office is where the user accounts are managed. Regardless of whether you use Outlook or Pegasus, you will manage those accounts in exactly the same manner, using the Post Office software.

There are many different PO packages you can run. The big 3 (in my book) are:
Groupwise - runs on Netware, linux, and Windows
MS Exchange - runs on Windows servers only
Sendmail - runs on Unix and linux

Hope this clears things up somewhat.

 

[terry712]

the other thing to remeber is that i am assuming you are a small business that you are talking about 1 server

groupwise runs fine with a single server

exchange should never be run on a dc (microsoft will not support it if you do) - so you would just double your required servers as you would need a dc as well as the one running exchnage UNLESS you are running small biz server

if you are then mail is included no matter what one you have ie novell small biz or ms small biz

 

[myrzo]

Terry,

Yes we have only 1 server.
I followed your tip and found info re Groupwise and Novell 7
on their site which I have forwarded to the IT section.

Thanks for your help.

Myrzo