Is exchange right for me?
I am part of a small company - just a small electrical contracting business. We have very simply got two computers at one office, and two computers at home. We also have a laptop which flits between the two sites. Both sites are linked with a VPN. We currently use email in a slightly odd way. At home I have outlook setup and running, and this recieves all my emails for my home address. We also have a couple users setup on the machines, so I have centralised the .pst file to allow all users to be able to open outlook and the view/recieve all the emails. This is not an ideal situation, as if the .pst file is open on one machine, it causes issues on the other from time to time. I have exactly the same situation at the office site, but with a different address. If I am at home, and need to check work emails, I remote desktop into my office machine. I can do this visa versa for my home emails. I should also point out that I do have a MS server 2000running at home (odd I know, why not at the office!). This was primarily used to provide a WINS server for easier VPN usuage with machine names and shares. It is also used to centralise all mine and my wifes documents, music, photos etc to allow them to be used from any machine. As you can see, this situation is not ideal at all. I have not looked into exchange at all - this is my first google so to speak. How can Exchange help me? Could I install this to my server, have exchange recieve all my emails from all addresses, and then exchange do its magic so these emails can be available to any machine? The way we work means that a PC is never dedicated to a person - they are more hot desks, where any person could use any machine, and obviously wants to be able to access any emails. I appreciate you reading this (if you got this far!), and look forward to any links to reading materials or the like! Regards.
September 24th, 2008 10:13am

Hi, Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging platform that provides e-mail, scheduling, and tools for custom collaboration and messaging-service applications. For this thread, I understood that one pc with Outlook installed hosts several email accounts. Emails for all accounts are stored as one PST file, so any one can view others email when he or she opens outlook, is that right? Since you have ISP supported email accounts, I think you may try the below workaround: When one open outlook, outlook will find profile and load the related pst file(if you store email locally or use pop3 account).So you can configure outlook profile for each account. And then select Prompt for a profile to be used settings so that when one open outlook, he or she need to select their own account. Detail steps can be found from the below article: How to create a new e-mail profile in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918 Besides, you can find more information about Exchange Server from the below link: Exchange Server Library http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996058.aspx Hope it helps. Xiu
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September 25th, 2008 10:01am

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