Best Practices for remote users

I'm in the process of planning an exchange 2k3 deployment for about 80 users
of which 30 are remote users who never come in to the office. How should
approach setting up these remote users? should I setup pop services or just
OWA?
Also, we have about 20 BlackBerry users how should I setup these users to
receive mail on their devices?

Thanks,
Eddie

Lanwench
Thu Apr 06 18:19:56 CDT 2006


"Eddie" <Eddie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm in the process of planning an exchange 2k3 deployment for about 80
> users
> of which 30 are remote users who never come in to the office. How should
> approach setting up these remote users? should I setup pop services or
> just
> OWA?

RPC over HTTP(s) - presuming they have WinXP and Outlook 2003. OWA for
those who don't. I wouldn't use POP or IMAP if I could avoid it...


> Also, we have about 20 BlackBerry users how should I setup these users to
> receive mail on their devices?

Blackberry Enterprise Server....that's the only option I'd consider for BB.
>
> Thanks,
> Eddie

Ed
Thu Apr 06 18:23:31 CDT 2006

If they access other resources on the corporate network, then VPN is
probably the best answer. Otherwise HTTP over RPC is a great solution. Don't
use POP3.

For Blackberrys, Blackberry Enterprise Server is the best solution. Or just
switch to devices that support Exchange Server ActiveSync.



"Eddie" <Eddie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E09B116-81A6-4063-9834-A8281F937A0A@microsoft.com...
> I'm in the process of planning an exchange 2k3 deployment for about 80
> users
> of which 30 are remote users who never come in to the office. How should
> approach setting up these remote users? should I setup pop services or
> just
> OWA?
> Also, we have about 20 BlackBerry users how should I setup these users to
> receive mail on their devices?
>
> Thanks,
> Eddie

Martin
Fri Apr 07 09:12:28 CDT 2006

Just Switch?

With 20 users, that's about a $6K switch.


"Ed" <ewoodrick@ed-com.com> wrote in message
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> If they access other resources on the corporate network, then VPN is
> probably the best answer. Otherwise HTTP over RPC is a great solution.
> Don't use POP3.
>
> For Blackberrys, Blackberry Enterprise Server is the best solution. Or
> just switch to devices that support Exchange Server ActiveSync.
>
>
>
> "Eddie" <Eddie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7E09B116-81A6-4063-9834-A8281F937A0A@microsoft.com...
>> I'm in the process of planning an exchange 2k3 deployment for about 80
>> users
>> of which 30 are remote users who never come in to the office. How should
>> approach setting up these remote users? should I setup pop services or
>> just
>> OWA?
>> Also, we have about 20 BlackBerry users how should I setup these users to
>> receive mail on their devices?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eddie
>
>