Re: Exchange Design Help

By using Exchange for Calendaring only and using mail hosted elsewhere, you are underutilizing Exchange Server and the investments made in it. Perhaps you should look at other solutions that may better serve your purpose.

If there are no specific barriers to using Exchange's full functionality, it probably makes sense to look into using Exchange's full functionality, including messaging/email.
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"BishopZ" <BishopZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:98163411-6EBD-426D-A68E-245E9A9D2F19@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All,

I would like to deploy Exchange 2003 in our company but I have a little
unique situation with our infrastructure and wanted to get some input from
you’ll.

What I want:
Use Exchange for our company for calendaring use only so people can schedule
meetings and send invitations.

Situation:
We are running Active Directory with Exchange 2003 and are only using the
Public Folders feature as of now. Upper management has decided that they wish
to use the full functions of Exchange calendaring with private mailbox
calendars instead of local Outlook calendars stored in .pst files. However,
our backend infrastructure is all Unix based and we currently don’t run any
mail servers for mail except to forward. So if our company’s domain is
r1.company.com all email gets forwarded to users who have a parent company
accounts at hq.company.com. On top of that, not all users are Outlook users.
Email clients range from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, to Netscape.
This really isn’t a problem since users who don’t use Outlook can login to
Outlook Web Access to accept/decline meeting requests. The problem is that
how will these users get notified of meeting requests. If I send a meeting
request to president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx which gets forwarded to
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and they don’t use Outlook, they won’t be able to
see a meeting request even if they login to Outlook Web Access since our
Exchange won’t be using email and even if it did, it is not the mail server
for hq.company.com.

I know this all sounds a bit confusing but I myself am a bit confused too
due to the various obstacles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!


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