Have you considered just giving him Outlook 2003 and using Cached Exchange Mode?
It will certainly give him a degree of redundancy, and allow him to continue to work offline in the event your Exchange server is unavailable. You could even go so far as to give him a POP3 account so he can send mail when Exchange isn't available. And Outlook in Cached Exchange Mode will reflect changes to his current mailbox, saving one of your staff the tedious task of maintaining a parallel mailbox, as you mentioned. And to help promote the idea to him, you could give feed him some of the Microsoft Marketing hoopla on using Cached Exchange Mode: "...primary benefits of using Cached Exchange Mode are...Shielding the user from troublesome network and server connection issues. Facilitating switching back and forth from online to offline for mobile user...." from http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/three/ch7/outb04.htm and "...Outlook 2003 cached mode can help increase the reliability and performance of connections, as well as employee productivity...downloads all necessary information to an employee's computer as it comes in-so that network performance issues do not affect the employee...." from http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/topten.mspx (Correct me if I'm wrong here guys, but you don't need Exchange 2003 to use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode). Too simple? -----Original Message----- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:12 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Duplicating mailboxes Basically we've got the biggest tit of a Managing Director this side of the millennium, who's really making life hard, but hey that's life right? ;p What he wants is to have a backup mailbox on our main server as well as the server that he is normally located on, so some other members of my outstanding IT department suggested we have another mailbox with the incoming mails directed to a backup email box, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my colleagues for this highly adaptive use of initiative. So I'm landed now to use this ridiculous idea, which from my forecasting means that his backup mailbox will just fill and fill and the Director is not going to maintain it, I'm certainly not going to (I wouldn't know what to delete!), so thanks to my colleagues I'm landing with a catch 22. Is there anyway to replicate mailboxes somehow as to have redundancy so that if one server should fail he can work from a copy on another server? This should reflect changes to his current mailbox, i.e. if he deletes from there it also deletes from the backup mailbox. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
