Re: Exchange Question

I have a 15 user client with Office 2000 plus Outlook 2003 and they use spell check and I have this setup too. People really would complain if you couldnt spellcheck! That feature is part of Outlook itself regardless of Word etc.


jaredea wrote: 
wow! thank you so much for you excellent reply!  you are truly a
GodSend - i am just now getting the Client PC's going and i read what
you wrote just in time!

It is a brand new box (2003 box) that i'm using and i'm very excited -
i've used SBS 2000 for a couple of years ago and am quite impressed -
i will be moving that server over to be a development server and
hopefully that goes ok!

So the spell check definatly works?  i read somewhere that it doesn't
and that was the main reason for not going with 2003 for the clients!
if it does, then i'm pretty sure i'd like to use 2003 because i love
the thing!



On Tue, 31 May 2005 04:56:15 +0100, aus <aus@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi,

Hi. On the POP3 connector its a reasonably simple bit of software so they are very similar actually - though I see they do compare their features on their respective sales pages so you can decide.>

I looked and found that free one (most all the free ones have a user count limitation - this one doesn't and the 'full version' (has a nice logging capability) isnt much, $69 I think it said:

http://www.chimeracomputing.com/

Now I havent used this one myself but it looked good when I was looking about for one some months back (I stuck with the SBS 15 minute thing as the customer didnt care in the end).

You would be fine using this - use the free edition to setup with then if you needed the logging facilities (lets you see when mail came in and to whom) then upgrade later. Remember all these programs do is grab POP3 mail using a supplied password and username and then send it locally using SMTP to Exchange, so the basic function is simple. The other bits are how easy it is to administer etc. Couldn't say there is a 'best' one. POP Beamer is ok - I wasnt stunned by it and some things wernt obvious if I remember but it worked fine. I say test the free one - If you dont like its interface (and thats all it will come down to in the end) trial one of the others.



On Outlook Express I was thinking that client only becuase when anyone says POP3 I tend to think Express - but Outlook 2003 is what I would expect any SBS site to use (as its included free!).


You can't use any version of Word as editior with Outlook 2003 other than Word 2003 (mad, I know). So if your users need this they may be upset. I havent seen a fix for this anywhere yet. The spell check is definitly fine though.



As to the .pst mail that is easy. When you setup Exchange every user will have a server based mailbox associated with their account. This mailbox is stored in one large file on the server with everyone else mail, as you know. When your users are up and running in Exchange all you do on their Outlooks is do an 'Import' from their old .PST file (in the File menu of Outlook) and all the folders/messages etc. they had are copied up to Exchange. You do this for each user on their PCs. You can then forget about the .pst file (though this isnt deleted or modified by the import).


Now you could gather all the .pst files together and run another
program to merge the files into Exchange but I think you'll find the above method the easiest way.


Are you replacing the SBS 2000 server with 2003? or just loading the Exchange element on SBS 2000. It wasnt clear. Not that it will make
that much difference. Probably more 'fun' if you are migrating to a new
server.



.

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