[THIN] Re: OST Files
- From: "Matthew Shrewsbury" <MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:15:07 -0500
Another idea if you have Exchange 2003 is use RPC over HTTP so that
Outlook can connect to Exchange without using Citrix.
Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Server+
Senior Network Administrator
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Euan Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:18 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OST Files
A year or two ago I briefly tested the idea of using a local copy of
outlook set-up to sync to an OST on the local HD and setting up outlook
on Metaframe 1.8 to sync to the same ost file via a mapping to the
client C$ share. It worked but in the end I did not set-it up for the
users I had in mind as I did not believe they would be able cope with
having to use the local copy of outlook sometimes and the metaframe copy
other times. Also at the time these users worked in two remote offices
where they had a single shared win98 box in each office so I did not go
very far with this - other than confirm that it would work.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Nicoletatos [mailto:muray_n@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2005 8:35 p.m.
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OST Files
Thanks guys for the opinions
Let me explain what Im up against
I work for a Broadband Company who does not really understand
Citrix
Server Farm in the Netherlands.......affiliates around Europe
So everytime they accuire a company they go and throw out all
their hardware and replace it all new, put in exhange server,sms etc
I have suggested we keave there local infurstructure intact and
give them our services over Citrix.
The response was what will users do if they were working on a
train using outlook (no internet connection).........how will they syn
back to there mailbox (there will be no local Exchange server, only via
Citrix which will be based in the Netherlands)
(I have a very small group who dont like Citrix, hence the
painful questions)
I said give the users UMTS PCIMA cards and there is no issue
Thanks to your comment I have a few things to check out with the
exchange guys
Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I only have a small number of mobile uses on Citrix.
Prior to this, they used Outlook 2003 with RPC over HTTP (as I use for
every fat client outside my corporate office). RPC over HTTP, when
combined with cached mode, is almost as good, if not better at times,
then using Citrix (in my opinion). With cached mode, there is no delay
in opening e-mails, but without it, there is delay based on bandwith.
Cached mode means your e-mail is delayed slightly for incoming/outgoing,
but we're talking < 1 minute even in the worst case scenarios from my
experience.
Now, having said that, I tell my mobile uses that use
Citrix to never use their local Outlook. Ok, so there are a few times
we tell them they might want to use it, primarily if they are on an
airplane, or need to lookup info. This is still an issue, because, if
they never open it to let their cache update, the info they may be
looking for is not there.
In reality, of the few mobile users I have, only 1 or 2
of them would even use their laptop in an offline mode for Outlook.
Those 1 or 2 people are smart enough to understand that they need to let
their local Outlook update the cache, and if they compose mail in it
when offline, they need to let it send that mail when they get a
connection again.
What's my point? I think you'll find that if you got
the straight and narrow out of your mobile users, you'll find 99% of
them don't use their e-mail when they don't have an internet connection,
thus they don't take advantage of an offline/cached mode in the first
place, and it's not an issue.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russell Robertson
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:38 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OST Files
Hhhmmm, I've tried a couple of times to answer
this question and I'm not sure hat you want to do.
If your mobile user is offline, they are
offline. If they use Outlook locally it's going to wait till there is a
connection. If you are remote and get a connection, local Outlook can
only connect via rpc over http or using functionality via MSAM. This
will get your local Outlook connected to remote Exchange.
But if you get connectivity, performance is
always going to be better (IMHO) using Citrix to connect.
Do this help/make sense?
Cheers
Russell
Russell Robertson
Skibo Technologies
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Microsoft Certified Partners
Citrix Solutions Advisers
Northern Business Star Awards Finalists 2005
________________________________
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mario Nicoletatos
Sent: 29 October 2005 19:26
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OST Files
I would appreciate some opinions on how you all
deliver locally installed outlook(mobile users) syncing back to Citrix
based mail
Basically if a mobile users works offline how
will the user be able to Syn there unsent mail back to the exchange
server
There will be no local exchange server
Thnxs in advance
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