Starting new business...outlook capability questions

[Guest]

Hi-

I am starting a new business and have a couple questions about how Outlook
will work for me. My business will be based out of my house and my business
pc will be in my home office, but i will be traveling alot with another
laptop. Will I have access to my email while I am traveling? How will this
work? Will I be able to get my email from my blackberry? Any help is
greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

Let's start with some basic data from you....

country?
type of email service you will have?

Here are some tips about how to post questions:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555375

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia

 

[Duncan McC]

Hi-

I am starting a new business and have a couple questions about how Outlook
will work for me. My business will be based out of my house and my business
pc will be in my home office, but i will be traveling alot with another
laptop. Will I have access to my email while I am traveling? How will this
work? Will I be able to get my email from my blackberry? Any help is
greatly appreciated.

Outlook's a great product. But it's only a client (an email client).
You need to consider your business computer operating system you'll run
(rather than Outlook).

You need to consider (IMO) the 'server' technologies you want to run on
your home/business computer.

Perhaps for starters, you could take a look at MS Small Business
Server?:
http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/

Perhaps SBS is overkill for you? - ...
A very simple and cheap solution is to simply remote on to your
home/business computer (say running Windows XP Professional or Windows
Vista). Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but you won't be able to
do this with MS technology such as Remote Desktop Connection. But you
could use a commercial program like PC Anywhere or a free program like
tightVNC. They're (IMO) both much less elegant and slower and 'buggy'
in some respects (you have to manually get tVNC to refresh the screen
sometimes).

 

[Brian Tillman]

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but you won't be able to
do this with MS technology such as Remote Desktop Connection.

In my opinion, RDC works as well, if not better than, VNC.

 

[Duncan McC]

In my opinion, RDC works as well, if not better than, VNC.

Absolutely - just thinking he won't be able to RDC to his home/biz PC if
it's running XP. ???

And I don't think Remote Assistance is of much use to him, as they'll be
"no one at home" to initiate/accept it.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Absolutely - just thinking he won't be able to RDC to his home/biz PC
if it's running XP. ???

Sure you can. XP Pro allows it out of the box and I believe there is a way
to enable it in XP Home.