Outlook Live Usage Senario

[Guest]

Hi,

I am inquiring about Outlook Live for a friend: at work he is on an Exchange
Server, and then at home he has a POP account.

Is this scenario a good use of MOOL? Can he upload/download to keep both his
Exchange data and POP data in sync?

Thanks for the advice.

-steve

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Will work allow it?

Does he need his pop and exchange mail mixed together? Or does he just want
to access exchange mail at home? If he just wants to access exchange email,
he can use the OWA url with Outlook 2002/2003. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/20030904.htm

For MOOL information, including usage scenarios:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/mool.htm

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[PaulD]

: Will work allow it?
:
: Does he need his pop and exchange mail mixed together? Or does he just
want
: to access exchange mail at home? If he just wants to access exchange
email,
: he can use the OWA url with Outlook 2002/2003. See
: http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/20030904.htm
:
Not trying to start a new topic but...
According to Exchange help, you can setup Outlook at home to sync with
Exchange at work (remote). I personally don't care for OWA and would rather
use Outlook if possible. Unfortunately, while I thought I followed the
instructions correct and have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, I
could never get it to work (With a VPN it does work). Do you have any info
if it is truely possible to connect Outlook to exchange remotely? I guess
I'm just curious if I did something wrong or if it just can't be done.
Paul D

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

According to Exchange help, you can setup Outlook at home to sync with

Exchange at work (remote). I personally don't care for OWA and would
rather
use Outlook if possible. Unfortunately, while I thought I followed the
instructions correct and have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot,
I
could never get it to work (With a VPN it does work). Do you have any
info
if it is truely possible to connect Outlook to exchange remotely? I guess
I'm just curious if I did something wrong or if it just can't be done.

It will work using one of two methods. If the proper ports are open and
version of Outlook will work, but a responsible admin will not open them.
The second method is RPC over HTTP and supported by Outlook 2003 on Winxp
sp2 with exchange 2003 in a win2k3 domain. Either method requires the
administrator to configure access, so it's best to speak to your admin.

The final method, which will work but only for mail, is using the OWA url to
create an HTTP account. Port 80 is almost always open and if OWA works, it
will work.

 

[PaulD]

: > According to Exchange help, you can setup Outlook at home to sync with
: > Exchange at work (remote). I personally don't care for OWA and would
: > rather
: > use Outlook if possible. Unfortunately, while I thought I followed the
: > instructions correct and have spent several hours trying to trouble
shoot,
: > I
: > could never get it to work (With a VPN it does work). Do you have any
: > info
: > if it is truely possible to connect Outlook to exchange remotely? I
guess
: > I'm just curious if I did something wrong or if it just can't be done.
:
: It will work using one of two methods. If the proper ports are open and
: version of Outlook will work, but a responsible admin will not open them.

Ok, then closed they shall stay

: The second method is RPC over HTTP and supported by Outlook 2003 on Winxp
: sp2 with exchange 2003 in a win2k3 domain. Either method requires the
: administrator to configure access, so it's best to speak to your admin.

We are a small company (8 employees) so we hired an outside company to help
setup server. Since I have the most computer knowledge at the company, I
have full admin to the server (scary). Server is SBS 2003, w/ exchange
2003. My home machine is WinXP sp2, with outlook 2003. Can you give me
some tips on how to setup the server for remote access or point me in the
right direction for some reading on how to do this?

:
: The final method, which will work but only for mail, is using the OWA url
to
: create an HTTP account. Port 80 is almost always open and if OWA works, it
: will work.
:

While this is a viable option, I would really like to have access to my
tasks, contacts, calendar, etc if possible.

Thanks so much for your help and time
Paul D

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

There should be a user guide in one of the directories you can reference -
it has pretty good instructions.
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=configure exchange rpc over http&num=100
brings up a few helpful sites. The user guide might be identical to the link
to tech net - it looks very familiar.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&q=rcp+over+http+exchange -
the first one at windowsitpro.com gives some background information and the
5th at blogs.msdn.com helps troubleshoot... a couple of kb's are near the
top too.


you'll find some information here:
http://www.msexchange.org/pages/search.asp?query=rpc+over+http and here
http://www.swinc.com/resources/exch... 2003&sectionID=1040&sectionName=Outlook 2003.
You'll probably want to bookmark both sites for future reference in your
role as admin.



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Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[PaulD]

: There should be a user guide in one of the directories you can reference -
: it has pretty good instructions.
:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=configure exchange rpc over http&n
um=100
: brings up a few helpful sites. The user guide might be identical to the
link
: to tech net - it looks very familiar.

The user guide I found on the server mostly talks about how to setup the
client machines to connect, not the server. Now that I know I need to mess
with rcp over http, I will focus my efforts

:
:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&q
=rcp+over+http+exchange -
: the first one at windowsitpro.com gives some background information and
the
: 5th at blogs.msdn.com helps troubleshoot... a couple of kb's are near the
: top too.

windowsitpro has some good insight on how to setup, I will have to give some
of this a try

: you'll find some information here:
: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/search.asp?query=rpc+over+http and here
:
http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/faq_db.asp?status=questions&faqID=10
02&faqname=Exchange%202003&sectionID=1040&sectionName=Outlook%202003.
: You'll probably want to bookmark both sites for future reference in your
: role as admin.

Thanks for the great references! If I can't get this to work, I may have to
bite the bullet and hire an IT person to set it up for me.
Paul D

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The user guide I found on the server mostly talks about how to setup the

client machines to connect, not the server. Now that I know I need to
mess
with rcp over http, I will focus my efforts

you only need to configure the rpc proxy via the registry and it's ready to
go. (SBS may set it up by default or have a wizard)