Remote Access to Exchange: Solutions...

[ilceres]

Hi to all.

Here it's my argoument for today: the remote acccess to Exchange.

My problem it's the mail archiving: my company has very heavy mailboxes storage (up to 20GB for a singole mailbox). So I can't archive all into the Exchange databases... I archive the mails into .pst files.

Here's the trouble: HOW GRANTEED FULL MAILS ACCESS FROM REMOTE?

SOLUTION 1:
OWA over SSL: Bad solution. I can't let my user read their pst file under OWA...

SOLUTION 2:
RDP access tunneled over PPTP or SSH: with this solution I can let my user read pst files with Outlook, but only one session! Can't open morte than one Outlook processes on the same machine..


What the hell... any suggestion?

Greetings

 

[ilceres]

Sorry to all, I was wrong.

By RDP it wasn't working beaucase I opened Outlook connected with the Exchange and the pst on Terminal Server, with the same user I tryed on remote session.

Without this it work fine and I solved my problems )))

So this is my opinion: tunneled RDP works better than OWA.

 

[soutener]

http://www.gfi.com/mailarchiver/

^ Works great for archiving, you access your emails through a web interface


or you can setup a terminal server, this would allow more than one use access to their email remotely


i'm going to purchase gfi mail archiver in the near future, for the same reasons you have.

 

[ilceres]

I heard from that software.. but I not test it yet.

If I'm not going wrong takes mail from a journal Exchange mailbox and archive into a SQL database, accessible from web interface (and then from Outlook )...

Do you test the software? How is?
Can I set to archive mail older than XX month?

Maybe I have to test it