On 05 Aug 2001 13:33:03 -0400, Andy Bastien wrote:
> All I'm trying to do is point out what you can do without Outlook.
And I'm trying to point out that - depending on circumstances, such as
corporate requirements - you can't.
> Your response seems to imply that you might as not even bother trying
> to use anything else. Nowhere have I stated that there is any
Nope; I'm pointing out that saying "just use IMP/LDAP for mail", as you
stated, is a very over-simplified and non-feasible answer in many cases.
> complete replacement. Indeed, Microsoft's entire purpose of the
> Outlook/Exchange design is to lock users into their products and, as
> much as possible, remove their options. In spite of this, it is in
> their best interests to make Exchange interoperate with clients on
> other operating systems; there are many large companies and
> institutions with a great deal of money invested in Unix systems and
> these companies won't buy Exchange if it doesn't work with their
> existing networks (and it gets Microsoft's foot in the door).
None of which is relevant to the original user's problem - which is that
he *needs* to be able to use Outlook 2K, since that has become his
company's standard email/groupware client.
Altho you should be able to use Outlook 2K on Win98, altho I haven't
actually tried it. I know Outlook itself runs.
> You can access all of your folders in OWA (5.5). You can create and
I have 2 dozen folders under my mailbox, but not under my inbox, that do
NOT show up when I use OWA (5.5).
> LDAP should enabled and configured correctly because that's how
> Outlook Express and Netscape Messenger and many other clients access
> the address book. It's a standard cross-platform method of retrieving
> user information (among other things). The only exception would be if
> the administrators' goal is to force everyone to use Outlook only and
> CW mode only. If that is the case, then you're probably screwed
> anyway.
If Outlook is the mandated standard, as noted previously, there would be
no reason to activate LDAP on an Exchange, since it isn't required for
the mandated software. And you shouldn't run non-necessary services on
your servers, from a security stand-point. And you can't reasonably
expect corporate admin to support non-mandated software; you MIGHT be
able to. Or might NOT.
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