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by seadogs

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We would like for our growing number of laptop users to be able to access their email through the outlook program when they are on the road as well as when they are on the network in the office. Is there any standard way to set this up?

Right now they can access email using exchange web access when they go through any internet provider. However this is confusing to many and changes made here are not applied to their email on outlook. We are running Exchange server 5.5 service pack 5 on a windows NT network. Most of the laptops are running Windows 98 with a few on Windows 2000. Users get acces to the internet by using a company password through an ISP such as mindspring.
I've tried playing around with the internet mail settingsbut without any luck.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

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by dmiles

If the Remote Access Service is added and the configurations from the Tool,Services,There is nothing noted that anything specific has to be done.

by melodyj

What we have done is added a VPN connection to the mix. The user has to connect to their ISP and then to the VPN connection. Once they connect to the VPN, they can have access to all the same things on the network as they do while in the office. This can be an awfully slow connection, but it works.

Regards,
Melody

by seadogs

With a VPN connection do you add it to the server, laptop, or bother? THanks again

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