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OWA is the web-based interface for connecting to a mailbox on Exchange. Outlook Anywhere is a feature of Exchange which lets users connect to their mailbox from Microsoft Oulook when they are away from the site. I think I am right in saying that all traffic is sent/recieved by port 80 or ideally 443. From their point of view, they won't see much difference between their classroom/office PC and their home laptop/pc. With all that said, Outlook Anywhere still requires the server to be setup for external access and have certificates / permissions in place, so it might as well be looked at during the same time as configuring OWA!

If you aren't too worried about having OWA then you could save yourself a headache for a bit. Outlook Anywhere allows users to use Oulook via port 80 or ideally 443 with a UC certificate and works perfectly well. If you fancy using OWA the things to check are probably IIS permission / Certificate related - this was a huge learning curve for me! Also make sure that your test user is accessing via the URL specified on the properties of the Client Access section of the Server Configuration section of the management console.

Hi Leco. No, you don't need to stop either Exchange Server, the move should be seemless for the user (apart from a message advising an Outlook reboot). I'm not near the server to check, but I am fairly sure e2010 lists a legacy mailbox as one which was created on an earlier version - even when it has been moved? I didn't understand the post about web acces really. Once the mailbox has been moved that user can't access owa 2003 and needs to access owa 2010 in order to connect to their mail. If that option isn't available yet then they can still access via Outlook on a desktop etc. I have been very slack finishing off my 2010 project and have been co-existing 2003 + 2010 for several months now. If I can help with anything give me a shout!

I'm not sure if this helps, but what I did/do was make use of our web helpdesk. While onsite I will create a ticket wich will list all of the required jobs and update it throughout the day. At the end of the day I complete the ticket, export as a PDF and email to the Primary Head. If anyone wanted to challenge me it would be timestamped and have their IP details! If you don't have that kind of facility the easiest might just be paper-based? 10 minutes in Word or Publisher and 0.5p per copy in your reporpgraphics dept to get people off your back!

If this really is just for the reason of "checking you have been there" and not job tracking / logging etc, then I agree with the above "trust" post. Failing that, surely you have to sign in and out at reception for each visit to adhere to visitor/fire regulations?

lol nice to know I helped! At a guess, had they had it like that for 3 years but only reported it to you today?

Hi Alex, It can do this from time to time. Get the user to log on to OWA. When they login and get the basic / light version go to: Options > Accessibility > and there will probably not be a tick in the box for "Use the blind and low vision experience" - get them to tick it and save. Log out, log back in and they will still have the basic / light interface.... but get the user to repeat the steps above but this time take the tick OUT of the box, save and logout. The next time they login they should have the standard interface.

Hi All, I'm slightly embarrased by this post, but in my defence it is 2.30am and I should really be in bed! Essentially, what I am trying to do is assign a public IP address to a PC which is currently on my home network, which currently has a private range. Here is what I currently have: Home Network: 192.x.x.x Subnet 255.255.255.0 Router WAN: 82.x.x.x Subnet 255.255.255.255 Public IP's 217.x.x.x Subnet 255.255.255.248 Ideally, I would have all normal "home" devices remain on my private 192.x.x.x range using my router as the gateway which also currently has a private address of 192.x.x.1. The router isn't the highest quality router in the word - it is a Tenda. Now, I know that the easy way around would be to just throw away the idea of my private range and give the router a 217.x.x.x and set all of my devices to pick up 217 addresses via DHCP from the router, but ideally what I want is for all of my current home devices to not have to be reconfigured. While there is a fair chance that I might wake up refreshed and know exactly what to do, I would be interested to know how others would/do go about this?

I have to say... my historical opinion of RM couldn't be much lower (and my previous posts probably demonstrate that!), and I would still never move to their Connect products or overly rely on their support services.... but.... So far I have had a very good relationship with the team of business managers / infrastructure specialists and educational specialists they have assigned to our project. The uniqueness (is that a word!?) of our situation meant we could dictate the kind of network we had from a very early point, and the decision was made to stick with our Vanilla approach which has worked well over the years. While I expected this to become a major issue, it really hasn't. On issues like content filtering / firewall we have been able to specify what we want and they work with us to make it happen. Your situation might be different because of the restrictions imposed by BSF, but I certainly wouldn't give up hope.

I think our users would appreciate not having to log on at all (like NTLM) to be honest. I guess if NTML just wasn't going to be a reliable option in future releases then a Java login app would at least be a step in the right direction (and hopefully remove the SSL error message?) On the RM comment - My situation is quite unique... a complete new build outside of BSF / PFI. RM are contracted as our IT Framework Partners but working with me to design the overall solution. I stated to them fairly early on that we use Smoothwall for staff (currently not pupils) and it didn't seem an issue at all - in fact they were open about the fact they were looking at it themselves. I've since looked at the UTM product as we want complete firewall controll in our new school too.

Could someone describe what Auth3 is? We had issues with NTLM and moved to forcing teachers to log in via the SSL portal - which didn't go down well. Having a new Auth method available which didn't require a manual user authentication step (as long as it worked without issues like experienced with NTLM) would be fantastic. PS - I have had a conversation with RM about content filtering for our new school project, and was actually told they were in discussions with Smoothwall with a view to offering that as an alternative to Smartcache!

Hmm. Fair comment? I wouldn't say "fair", as this site is much more diverse than simply being "full" of marketeers and slanderers. Reasonable comment? I would be more inclined to say yes. When a site as diverse and popular as this allows areas like "Behind the red door" for the more unprofessional and emotive postings, you are opening yourself for comments like this - whether it is from individuals like this or companies themselves. The fact (which has been discussed over and over again) that there is no AUP/List of member rules on this site only adds to the problem. That is the controversial stuff over with which will probably just be glossed over again, but as with everything there is a plus side.... What Paul Hiscox might not see is that due to the very nature of this site, you will always get a difference of opinions. If person A posts a slanderous comment you can almost certainly bank on the fact that a person B and C will come along to argue against it. In the rare event of a comment going un-challenged, you can only go on to think that the potentially slanderous comment is more than likely true!

@Philwaterhouse I am sure you meant well with that message, but I have to say I found it a bit patronising. I can assure you that any issues I personally have had are not to do with network configuration, they were to do with speed, quality and inflexibility with in the product versions I had available to me at that time ....I say "at the time", as it has been a good two years since I used the software/was forced to look for alternatives. I would assume/hope that Samsung have developed the product in that time and ironed out a few of the issues mentioned above.

We use PaperCutNG and this comes with a self-service web portal for pupils which can be accessed by a small popup utility from their desktop when they log on. It is very cool - discreet app, nice design and clearly shows number of credits left without any need to click through.

The issues were with some of our newer Konica Minolta drivers. I believe it was down to PCOUNTER only working with PCL 5 drivers and newer Konica Minolta drivers not being PCL5 and being some other flavour. Essentially the accounting didn't work at all with them. On the price, I am fairly sure you're not talking significantly different money - maybe a hundred more, if that. I think there is a 60day trial available if you want to give it a go first.

We take a slightly different approach and give a blanket coverage of 50 credits per pupil and 100 credits for staff. When the individual runs out they have to request more. At that point we do a quick check of print history and pick up a good idea about if they are abusing the system or not (at which point if they are, we will refuse to top up or take payment). Perhaps strangely, we have found that our pupils do not generally abuse the system, it is the teaching staff which use departmental printers as make-shift photocopiers etc.... (Our departments pay for their own toner, so in these kind of instances reports are given to the Head of Dept who either limits printing or speaks with the staff member etc) One thing I would add - if you are using PCOUNTER with some Konica Minolta printers, make sure you have tested thouroughly before purchasing! We have just moved from PCOUNTER to Papercut NG - which I think is a much more reliable product.

I registered to attend last year but managed to break my foot! That put pay to my travel plans so didn't go. Be warned though, you will get a whole host of cold calls following your registration... unless I have been mega unlucky!

Fair comment really. Free should mean free, not spend £200+ first! (Don't get me wrong I know you will have meant well, and I'm not meaning to be offensive or kick off a huge debate... just supporting the comment above!)

It is largely down to each individual school and the rules set out in your AUP. I can see your point about wanting to allow access during breaks, but my personal view (which happens to be in line with my school too) is that people are here to either teach or learn, not spend time on personal activities. Resource are here to support teaching and learning, not for anything else. Security and safeguarding policies enforce the reason for blocking access, so together with the reason above there is no reason to adapt.

If it is any help, as a previous iPhone user I bought a HTC Hero thinking it would be a good change... and lasted about 2weeks before getting frustrated with the interface and keyboard and going back to an old iPhone 3G I had! (Also possibly worth mentioning I'm certainly not a die hard Apple fanboy either... just can't find anything as good as the iPhone!)

We chose to block years ago when virused attachments to Hotmail led us to re-think our position. We had a few complaints back then, and occasionally get the odd query now and again, but the sentance above from 3s-gtec is entirely correct and the same response I give.

I had a similar issue which the above link (inheritable permissions etc) partly fixed. I then found that I had further issues with my certificate configuration which only seemed to affect Widows Mobile devices (iPhones were fine for example). I had to speed up my plans and get an UC certificate which related to both internalservername.domain and externalsubdomain.domain. This also helped solve some issues with Outlook Anywhere. I found https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ really useful during my troubleshooting / testing - big thumbs up to MS for making that available!

I have been able to replicate the same issue. The odd spacing happens when you view the site in compatability mode in IE8. When you turn that off, the site returns to how it should look

I run Exchange 2010 on one Hyper-V VM and currently have 16GB RAM dedicated for it as well as a physical gigabit card. Both/either may be slighly over-kill for supporting the 1000mailboxes it holds, but I have the capacity so may as well let it have it while it is spare. When I get some spare time I plan to install another VM instance of Exchange on a seperate Hyper-V server to look at some of the DAG features and have another copy of databases etc.

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