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Microsoft Exchange questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas R. Olander)
Thu Feb 7 14:25:49 2002
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:25:47 -0500
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From: "Douglas R. Olander" <dolander@MIT.EDU>
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Hello everyone,
I have recently taken over the IT Admin job over here in the Treasurer's
Office and have a problem and was wondering if anyone here could help
me? If this is not the most appropriate forum, please give me hints on
where I should be asking this.
We have a single NT server with about 50 (mostly w2k sp2 workstations) and
use Eudora and Organizer for our office communications/scheduling. I
dislike Organizer as a scheduling solution for many reasons that I can
explain if you wish (weekly corruption of *.or6 files being the first and
foremost), and dislike Eudora for the local holding of all email (IMAP is
not an option as some users here have 80 MB folders - and politically
powerful so getting them to make them smaller is not really an option). We
have also run into problems with resource scheduling and busy request
searches that Organizer just does not handle well. There is also rumblings
from the Powerful here for a Blackberry solution... and desktop faxing.
My only options seem to be to move to an Exchange or Notes environment. I
do not have a lot of experience with Notes and have heard that MIT IT
frowns upon it. I have also heard the same about Exchange, but I do have
lot's of experience with that product. I am well aware of the
Exchange/Outlook Virus problems but have had a lot of experience dealing
with them. Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger, right? Sure,
Bill G. i also would be hosting this PO on a new server.
This leads me to my question. Do any departments here at MIT use
Exchange? Is there a way to turn a group of MIT Athena accounts into and
SMTP group? Does it bypass Kerberos in some way; do all of the users email
addresses have to be moved from Athena and into our own Post Office with
SMTP? Can Exchange get Kerberized (is that the right word?) POP email and
place it in its PO? Does anyone else here run their own email server on
top of the Athena one? If so, how? What version of Windows Server do you
run Exchange on (and what version of Exchange)? I would love to talk to
someone who has implemented a similar Exchange environment, the pros and
cons, the trials and tribulations of moving to this platform.
Thanks for reading this far.
Regards,
Doug
Douglas R. Olander
Information Technology Administrator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office of the Treasurer
238 Main Street, Suite 200
Cambridge, MA 02142
E48-200
Phone: 617-253-6058
Fax: 617-258-6676
E-mail: dolander@mit.edu
