[THIN] Re: Outlook Exchange Cached Mode

  • From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:48:45 +0100

Another vote for Google Apps on that front, presuming they have their own
domain (Easy to get one otherwise), first 5 users are free too.

2009/8/26 Nick Smith <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  Heh. LOL. That’s exactly what I thought when I mailed Evan off-list about
> our solution J
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Greg Reese
> *Sent:* 26 August 2009 14:37
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Outlook Exchange Cached Mode
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> This is exactly the type of business that Google Apps for business was
> designed for.  legitimate email, cloud storage. Surprised that doesn't work
> better.
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> As for cached exchange mode, I don't know of any other hacks to try.  You
> could slap together something with VDI but you would be introducing a level
> of complexity that overshadows the benefits.
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> Greg
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> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I’m supporting a small home based HVAC business that has a 2008 Terminal
> Server so a few field employees can connect in remotely to access a
> repository of documents.  They want to legitimize themselves on e-mail and
> stop using yahoo/gmail/ISP e-mails.  I’ve signed them up for a Hosted
> Exchange service but ran into a problem last night.  No cached exchange mode
> in Terminal Server due to the disabling of support for OST files (and
> offline files in general)
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> Quick search, yes, disabled on purpose by MS.  Lots of potential hacks,
> none of them work.  I tried a few things of my own, but no go.  I know the
> reasons for disabling OST, but none of them are concerns for this small
> business who has 3 users who use terminal server.  Moving to in house e-mail
> is not an option.
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> Hosted Exchange without cached mode is simply not usable. Most e-mails
> contain a minimum attachment size of 1 MB and even working through text only
> e-mails in the mailbox is painfully slow.   Moving e-mail in house is not a
> viable option.  The best I can do is setup these users for IMAP, but they
> lose all the collaboration benefits.  Some would consider the simply fix is
> to deploy Outlook Anywhere to their local desktop, but that doesn’t do much
> good when 99% of their e-mailing requirements saving/attaching of company
> documents, only available on the terminal server.
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> There is no budget to spend more money to change the way things work.  So
> I’m out of ideas.  Does anyone know of some ”inside” info to enable
> OST/Cached Mode support on 2008 TS?
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