Local Outlook - Our remote uses access outlook via Termninal Serve

[kkreamer]

We are considering removing Outlook 2007 from our employees local pc's. We
have Terminal Server 2008 and everyone has access to email via the server or
OWA.

Locally we have cache exchange turned off - what would be the disadvantage
to removing Outlook 2007 from all users local PC?

Thank you for your help!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Speed & convenience. You can't do everything in OWA that you can in Outlook
and both it and TS require a working network connection. If the network goes
down (or slows down) the user is dead in the water - can't review mail, call
contacts or check appointments - although that is a problem now too since
you don't use cached mode.

How much do your employees rely on mail, calendar and contacts? In some
businesses, mail is just notices sent from corp, no outside email and they
don't really need calendar or contacts so OWA and TS make perfect sense. In
others, the employees reply on email to conduct business and have full
calendars.

What reasons do you have for switching to TS? Does it make business sense
for your business? If you aren't sure, remove outlook from a couple of
employees as a test.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[kkreamer]

Thank you - Our users also have Window Mobile phones (which I neglected to
mention) - We have a lot of remote users and TS has proven to be the best way
for our users to access our network.

We encourage our users to NOT use outlook locally - however even though we
have turned cache exchange off - the user can set the connection back up
relatively easy - which is why we were considering removing outlook entirely
from the local side.

Accessibilty would still be high - just wanted to know the downside of
removing outlook locally.

Thank you!

Speed & convenience. You can't do everything in OWA that you can in Outlook
and both it and TS require a working network connection. If the network goes
down (or slows down) the user is dead in the water - can't review mail, call
contacts or check appointments - although that is a problem now too since
you don't use cached mode.

How much do your employees rely on mail, calendar and contacts? In some
businesses, mail is just notices sent from corp, no outside email and they
don't really need calendar or contacts so OWA and TS make perfect sense. In
others, the employees reply on email to conduct business and have full
calendars.

What reasons do you have for switching to TS? Does it make business sense
for your business? If you aren't sure, remove outlook from a couple of
employees as a test.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

We are considering removing Outlook 2007 from our employees local pc's.
We
have Terminal Server 2008 and everyone has access to email via the server
or
OWA.

Locally we have cache exchange turned off - what would be the disadvantage
to removing Outlook 2007 from all users local PC?

Thank you for your help!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The first downside that comes to mind is File, Send to menus won't work but
if Office (or the app) is also TS, or the users don't use that command much,
then its not an issue. Mail merges would be hard too. Anything that needs
mail integration won't work from the desktop.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

Thank you - Our users also have Window Mobile phones (which I neglected to
mention) - We have a lot of remote users and TS has proven to be the best
way
for our users to access our network.

We encourage our users to NOT use outlook locally - however even though we
have turned cache exchange off - the user can set the connection back up
relatively easy - which is why we were considering removing outlook
entirely
from the local side.

Accessibilty would still be high - just wanted to know the downside of
removing outlook locally.

Thank you!

Speed & convenience. You can't do everything in OWA that you can in
Outlook
and both it and TS require a working network connection. If the network
goes
down (or slows down) the user is dead in the water - can't review mail,
call
contacts or check appointments - although that is a problem now too since
you don't use cached mode.

How much do your employees rely on mail, calendar and contacts? In some
businesses, mail is just notices sent from corp, no outside email and
they
don't really need calendar or contacts so OWA and TS make perfect sense.
In
others, the employees reply on email to conduct business and have full
calendars.

What reasons do you have for switching to TS? Does it make business sense
for your business? If you aren't sure, remove outlook from a couple of
employees as a test.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

We are considering removing Outlook 2007 from our employees local pc's.
We
have Terminal Server 2008 and everyone has access to email via the
server
or
OWA.

Locally we have cache exchange turned off - what would be the
disadvantage
to removing Outlook 2007 from all users local PC?

Thank you for your help!