I saw something similar in the beta home networking newsgroup, 50 people in the office, with laptops, and they do peer to peer sharing, and they wanted to know how to get that working on Vista... I think my contribution to that thread was about 3 pages, and it started with SBS... ;)
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich Milburn MCSE, Microsoft MVP - Directory Services Sr Network Analyst, Field Platform Development Applebee's International, Inc. 4551 W. 107th St Overland Park, KS 66207 913-967-2819 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love the smell of red herrings in the morning" - anonymous -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Maybe OT: Shared Calendars w/o using Exchange? Tips/Suggestions/Recommedations? Hosted SBS with Outlook 2003 Office Live http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA100809831033.aspx Not 2003 without a SBS box on the backend but 2007 uses Office Live to share calendars. 40 people and you don't have a server... wow.....the control freak in me is freaking out. We put SBS servers in at 5 to 10 people and even less. Shared calendars pushes the sale of many a SBS box.... I don't know of non MS solutions. Javier Jarava wrote: > Hi! > > Sorry if this question is a bit off-topic to the list, but I've seen > some Exchange-related questions here, so I know there is Exchange > expertise hanging around ;) and I didn't know where to ask; please > feel free to point me to the proper forums (forii?) to ask in. > > I am looking for a way to implement shared calendars "a la exchange" > (ie, they have to be "visible" and used from within Outlook 2003), but > without actually using/hosting an Exchange Server ourselves. The idea > is that people should be able to see/manage the calendar of the people > they manage, so free/busy info is not enough. And the "outlook" > requisite is a must (as my CEO put it yesterday: "I live within > Outlook; I don't want to meddle with web apps or the like) > > I know that it's a bit odd of a requisite, but we are a small co. (~ > 40 employees) and the president feels that having to babysit a server > in-house is a bit of a needless burden. > > At present we host our email / web presence / customer ticketing > system in a pair of VPS from Verio, so if the proposed solution could > run on top of FreeBSD it'd be a big plus ;) > > Of course (now going for the "and ask about the KitchenSink" part ;) > if we could put it into place without having to tweak our email setup > that'd be wonderful!!. > > We understand that we'd probably have to install some Outlook plugin, > so that's OK... > > If there is no way to have the "Shared Calendar" feature as a > stand-alone service/server, I guess the next step would be to ask > those of you who know Exchange for an "exchange clone" that runs on > FreeBDS / Unix..... Or last but not least, I guess that there must be > "hosted Exchange" providers out there that you can recommend. That'd > mean re-doing our mail system, but I guess that we could live with it, > if need be. > > Thanks a lot for those of you who have read this far. > > Best Regards > > Javier Jarava > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -------APPLEBEE'S INTERNATIONAL, INC. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE------- PRIVILEGED / CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION may be contained in this message or any attachments. This information is strictly confidential and may be subject to attorney-client privilege. This message is intended only for the use of the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, unauthorized forwarding, printing, copying, distribution, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this in error, you should kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately destroy this message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. Applebee's International, Inc. reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to and from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Applebee's International, Inc. e-mail system. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
