[THIN] Re: Outlook Exchange Cached Mode
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:05:23 +0100
I was thinking of leaving him with his file server, TS and everything else,
but just using google apps for email.
2009/8/26 Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I’m way ahead of you there. Looked at Google Apps first. He didn’t like
> the way Google Docs worked. Also looked at Sharepoint, didn’t like that
> either. At the end of the day, he is set in his ways and likes accessing
> his files on his local LAN through windows. It’s fast, he’s done it that
> way for 6 years, and he doesn’t want to have to change that for himself.
> Changing the user is the hardest thing.
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> I discussed full cloud, but he doesn’t like the fact that he’d be in the
> cloud and his speed of working would be effected. He also has some “big
> brother” issues that I’ve been working on for the past 2 years. He’s
> finally going to agree to online backup, but it took 2 years of recommending
> it. Having him work entirely in the cloud would probably never materialize.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Greg Reese
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:37 AM
> *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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