Configure Laptop Outlook 2003 instead of using OWA

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My company has OWA and it is working fine from my laptop. It is setup to use
HTTPS and I have the security certificate installed on the laptop.

Is there any way I can configure Outlook 2003 that is installed on the
Laptop to access my company email outside the LAN?
 
You'll have to go to your Systems Administrator or Exchange Admin to find
out. They'll have security in place to prevent anyone from the outside from
getting into the network without the appropriate permissions and VPN or some
other method of access.
 
PerryRaptor said:
My company has OWA and it is working fine from my laptop. It is
setup to use HTTPS and I have the security certificate installed on
the laptop.

Is there any way I can configure Outlook 2003 that is installed on the
Laptop to access my company email outside the LAN?
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Your company's IT people should be able to tell you how.
 
Hopefully you can just setup a new POP account in outlook where the inbound
mail server is something like mail.yourcompany.com (try whatever's before
the /exchange in OWA) and the outbound mail server is your Comcast, or qwest
or EarthLink or whoever you use at home.

your login name will be domain\username\alias and don't forget to tick the
'advanced' tab on the pop email setup where it says "leave a copy of mail on
server"

As long as your IT folks have pop turned on or, as long as they've forgotten
to turn it off, you should be good to go.

POP can be activated on a per-user basis :)

hope that helps.
 
As an Exchange user, the very LAST thing I'd ever want to do while out of
the office is setup a POP3 account for it. First, POP3 only supports email,
not calendars, contacts, tasks, and just about every other feature an
Exchange Server offers. Second, setting up a POP account in the same
profile as an Exchange Server account with BOTH pointed at the SAME Exchange
Server is an almost foolproof way to get multiple copies of most email and
to lose many of others. No, what he wants to do is talk to his IT folks
about either setting him up to RPC over HTTP, or providing him a VPN tunnel
to use.

Hal
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Yes, what you say works as well....but..

sometimes the connections in China and Burma and other truly "remote" areas
are soooooo painful with a VPN, marginal with Terminal Services that POP is
an ideal solution. And, PerryRaptor stated that all he wanted was "company
email" - not calendars, contacts, tasks etc...

Also, not everyone has the luxury of an IT Dept. with $'s to setup and
maintain VPN's and implement RPC over HTTP or even to know what that means!

I also noticed that it was the last thing you'd do - not that it wouldn't
work. That's fair enough but - I guess that's why they call them "Personal
Computers" 'cos everyone's situation is different.

Anyways, more details of Perry's situation would be of benefit to all. and
as long as he has the benefit of many 'working' solutions to his exact
problem then we can all be happy about that.

Cheers :}


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