I work at a college where we have created a hybrid setup using exchange services but also using a local personal folder file. We know all too well that this was not how Microsoft programmers ever envisioned Outlook and Exchange Services would be used, but we are slowing developing what we need. We did not used to use exchange services at all on the personal computers, but just set up everything on the users’ computers in the personal folder file. But then people started wanting to be able toshare their calendar, so secretaries can set appointments, etc. But because it has been our practice to have all the email moving off the email server to the users’ computers, we do not have the hard drive space to start storing everyone’s saved emails on the server. So our answer is to set up exchange services, but use a combination rules and autoarchiving to move all new mail from the server-side inbox to a personal folder file on the local user machine. Our biggest question at this time is “Has anyone else tried this?” and if so, using what procedures and with what degree of success. At this point we have about 50 users set up this way, but we still run into new and exciting hiccoughs every week.
Does anyone have any ideas, and even better experience with this type of project?
Thanks
Kali Lord A+, Network+
Technology Services Specialist