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by architech

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I have a client with 40 nodes connecting to a NT box. The nodes are using Office 97, Outlook 98 and Office 2000. Some of the clients are using Outlook Express as well. Their WAN connection is PacBell DSL in which they are utilizing the POP3 serverof PB. The client wants to have a calendar online that all clients can post to. For $$ reasons they want to keep this locally. They would also like to have inter-office messaging as well as pooling their contact information. What kind of scalable applications would be recommended for the online or intranet calendar as well as the inter-office messaging and contact info? Will Office 2000 as a uniform platform handle this? If so, can it be utilized with PacBell?s POP3 server? Note: in the future the client will have a second location in which communication between the offices will be needed. Scalability is key.

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by mckaytech

Really, the best answer for an organization this size would be an Exchange server at one of the sites. But a license for Exchange plus enough CALs for 50 users, plus the hardware to run it on would end up running something around $10k. However, for this investment, you would have a platform that would be scalable to the tens of thousands of users as well as supporting chat, instant messaging, workflow management and a lot of other potential uses.

But if that is not economically feasible, Outlook98 does support folder replication by e-mail and this could accomplish the calendar and contact functions through your current POP3 system. Microsoft has an article on their TechNet site (Q179509) that describes how to set this up. However, at some point, scalability would be a definite limitation.

regards!

paul

by estebandelatorre

Open a FULL Yahoo account with calendar access. Give them the password and configure it to send an email (group) each time the calendar is modified.
You can share contact info too.
It's free!!
It's from everywhere
It's Internet!

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