mobile users retrieving Exchange Server 5.5 over Internet

[Kay]

I have an Exchange Srvr 5.5 with Outlook clients. (DSL connection to Internet)
I need to accomplish the following for the mobile laptop users.
Dial-up to internet with plain vanilla PPP account and retrieve their mail from the Exchange
server.


Any suggestions, or directions to sources?
Thank you in advance...

[Frank de Atouguia]

Hi,

The way I did this before was that I put the server name into the LMHOSTS file so that the notebook could still resolve the server name. This worked ok although it can get slow. My advise is to get the people to connect up up to your ISP or another ISP that peers with yours and not too far down the line otherwise it gets really slow! Also there is an option to use encrypted RPC`s in outlook I would use it.

Regards
Frank


On 8/29/98 11:28:56 AM, Kay wrote:
> I have an Exchange Srvr 5.5 with Outlook clients. (DSL connection to
> Internet)
I need to accomplish the following for the mobile laptop
> users.
Dial-up to internet with plain vanilla PPP account and retrieve
> their mail from the Exchange
server.


Any suggestions, or directions
> to sources?
Thank you in advance...

[Glenn Johnson]

Has anyone tried setting up secure pages (via SSL) on IIS, then using Proxy (2.0) server`s reverse proxying feature to allow secure connections to the OWA client? Theoretically, this would allow secure e-mail access from any ssl enabled brwoser anywhere in the world, right?

Thanks



On 8/31/98 4:32:10 AM, Frank de Atouguia wrote:
> Hi,

The way I did this before was that I put the server name into the
> LMHOSTS file so that the notebook could still resolve the server name. This
> worked ok although it can get slow. My advise is to get the people to
> connect up up to your ISP or another ISP that peers with yours and not too
> far down the line otherwise it gets really slow! Also there is an option to
> use encrypted RPC`s in outlook I would use it.

Regards
Frank


On
> 8/29/98 11:28:56 AM, Kay wrote:
> I have an Exchange Srvr 5.5 with
> Outlook clients. (DSL connection to
> Internet)
I need to accomplish the
> following for the mobile laptop
> users.
Dial-up to internet with plain
> vanilla PPP account and retrieve
> their mail from the
> Exchange
server.


Any suggestions, or directions
> to sources?
Thank you in advance...

[Frank Nguyen]

Why don`t we just go back to simple POP3? You should be able to
configure your Mail and Fax/Outlook profile to use the Internet E-mail
service and hit your distant Exchange Server through the Internet by DNS or even by
IP. You could even use SSL to make the transaction secure (see Microsoft Doc
Q175439). Of course, you`ll have to load the POP3 protocol on the server itself.

This is definitely a viable solution if you only want to receive mail since Exchange
won`t readily pass mail via SMTP.

On 8/29/98 11:28:56 AM, Kay wrote:
> I have an Exchange Srvr 5.5 with Outlook clients. (DSL connection to
> Internet)
I need to accomplish the following for the mobile laptop
> users.
Dial-up to internet with plain vanilla PPP account and retrieve
> their mail from the Exchange
server.


Any suggestions, or directions
> to sources?
Thank you in advance...

[Todd Kuhns]

I have this up and running and it works just fine. Do this:

1. Go into regedit and change the Exchange Transport Provider to use TCP/IP as default connection.

Key name- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftExchangeExchang e Provider
Value- ncacn_ip_tcp,ncalrpc,ncacn_spx,ncacn_np,netbios,nc acn_vns_spp

The value can really be anything as long as "ncacn_ip_tcp" is first.

2. Edit your Hosts and LMHosts files so that they point to the IP address and host name of your server.

E-mail me @ tkuhns@impactplan.com if you have any questions.
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On 8/29/98 11:28:56 AM, Kay wrote:
> I have an Exchange Srvr 5.5 with Outlook clients. (DSL connection to
> Internet)
I need to accomplish the following for the mobile laptop
> users.
Dial-up to internet with plain vanilla PPP account and retrieve
> their mail from the Exchange
server.


Any suggestions, or directions
> to sources?
Thank you in advance...