On 05 Aug 2001 11:38:10 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:
> In the depths of that dark day Sun Aug 05, the words of Michael Leone were the
>beacon:
> > On 05 Aug 2001 15:59:46 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 10:46:21PM -0700, TheDarb wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:14 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:22:45AM -0700, TheDarb wrote:
> > > > > > now. That'd be fine and all, but they are moving all of our windows
> > > > > > accounts to new Win2k domains that require Win2k to allow login.
> > > > > You can do the Win2k logins with Samba TNG (or Samba 2.2.x). you don't
> > > > > need win4lin or VMware for accessing directories on the server IIRC.
> > > > I only need it for Outlook 2k. Hence Samba won't do me a bit of good.
> > >
> > > Right.... I don't know about the login stuff you mentioned above (Samba
> > > would probably be the way to go there) but if Outlook is the problem, can't
> > > you check out your Outlook mail via POP3/IMAP?
> >
> > But you can't get meeting notifications, public folders, etc - all the
> > OTHER, collaborative things that Outlook can do - that way. It's not
> > just a mail client, you know.
> >
>
> The public folders you can access through IMAP.
Not the shared folders of other users.
> Meeting notifications are received as standard emails, but you don't get pop-up
>reminders.
And you can't send acceptances/rejections, nor can you check free time
statuses of other employees.
> OWA gives you access to your calendar and contacts, although it
> doesn't have all of the features of the Outlook client (including the
> sending-email-to-100-of-your-contacts-without-asking feature).
Nor does it show any mail folders, except for those under the inbox. At
least not for OWA on Exchange 5.5.
> You can search the address book with an LDAP client, and the contacts and
> calendar are viewable via IMAP, although they just look like emails.
Assuming you can convince the mail admins to activate that feature for
you. Not all like to activate all those features, just because one or
two employees want them.
> All this assumes that the Exchange administrators know what they're
> doing and have configured the servers correctly. If you've got a
> bunch of paper MCSEs they probably haven't.
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