I still don't see how WDE is the culprit here. Whether Exchange is local or not, the OST is getting updated constantly, no? With a hosted environment those changes just get replicated on a less frequent interval than with Exchange in the "local" environment.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:34 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > We never ran into an issue until we outsourced. We had PGP WDE and Office > 2007 for over a year w/ no issue, as soon as we outsourced and relied on > .OST files…poof…**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, September 30, 2011 12:11 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Outsourcing Exchange**** > > ** ** > > Coming into this late.**** > > We have PGP WDE and use Outlook 2007. I've never had any corrupted OSTs > like this. We are not outsourced, so that could conceivably be a factor, > but I'm really having trouble seeing it. Doesn an OST behave so diffrently > when the host server is in the cloud, rather than local?**** > > > > **** > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > Now; that being said - the challenge with desktop transformation tends to > be application compatibility. I have clients where MSFT office plus a few > web apps are 100% of their applications. > > That may not apply to you.**** > > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:22 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outsourcing Exchange > > So if I said "Hey team, let's run with this", how many FTE hours do you > estimate would it take to spool this up and spit it out to the first 50 > victi...err...users from soup to nuts? > > 1. Download toolkit > 2. Install MDT 2010 > 3. Figure out how to make it work using light-touch (no SCCM, we're back at > SMS 3 currently) > 4. Configure package to be deployed > 5. Pull trigger on the victims. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:53 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outsourcing Exchange > > MDT 2010 Update 1 can handle that for you, pretty darned easily. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:45 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Outsourcing Exchange > > We have talked about Bitlocker, but there's no guarantee that will be any > better. Heck our Exchange provider didn't know PGP was an issue, and 'll bet > PGP is more prevalent than Bitlocker. > > We're being steered to Win7/Office 2010/Remove PGP as all being needed to > help resolve these issues. At 500 employees at least 450 are on XP / Office > 2007 and 300+ have PGP on them. The Win7/2010 end state is desirable, it's > the compressed timeframe that isn't. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:38 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Outsourcing Exchange > > What OS? If it's Win7, what's the cost differential between using the PGP > product vs. Win7 Enterprise/Ultimate and Bitlocker? > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:03, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our outsourcing vendor has identified PGP’s Whole Disk Encryption as a > > major contributing factor to some major issues we’re having so we’re > > starting to remove it permanently from several users’ machines to make > > the outsourced work and “we need to find a suitable workaround for those > systems”. > > > > > > > > This strikes me as insane. 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