Old Outlook, New Outlook or Outlook Web Access
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OST's where killing me when we first started with Exchange. Our users jump between all 12 of our physician's calendars all day long. The problem was that they couldn't do anything to the calendar (in online mode) until the calendar had downloaded to the local OST for the user in question. Then the changes the user made where not made in real time to Exchange, so someone else working on the same doctor wouldn't see the changes for several minutes or more.. and we wound up with double bookings.
This madness forced me to disable offline mode - and pushes me even harder to an OWA only environment.
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OSTs are evil. So much IT overhead goes into that stuff.
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Also, moving to OWA will most likely allow me to move 90% of my users to O365 and online versions of the apps, saving me a bundle over my current Full License with SA for Office I currently have, while at the same time giving me substantially more flexibility.
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@scottalanmiller said:
OSTs are evil. So much IT overhead goes into that stuff.
In my opinion, one of the worst things to ever happen to Outlook (second was integrating FB).
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
OSTs are evil. So much IT overhead goes into that stuff.
In my opinion, one of the worst things to ever happen to Outlook (second was integrating FB).
I've never had a use for Outlook. Honestly, never once used it and been happy. I've tried nearly every version and always ended up moving to something else.
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My problem with OWA is that I monitor about 6 different exchange accounts (different clients) in outlook. Four of them are Office 365, one is Exchange 2010, and the last is Exchange 2007 (SBS 2008).
The last time I tried to get Office 365 to handle multiple accounts was a disaster.
Exchange 2010 OWA is ok, but not great.
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Ah yes, I never use multiple accounts so that never affects me. I did know that that was an issue but always forget.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ah yes, I never use multiple accounts so that never affects me. I did know that that was an issue but always forget.
I've already been tooling around with that since I use multiple accounts.
I can use different browsers, or incognito.
Not to just get the "ding" i the browser to be different for each account.
Damn, you guys are gonna have me 100% in the cloud before 2016!
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We are trying hard.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
OSTs are evil. So much IT overhead goes into that stuff.
In my opinion, one of the worst things to ever happen to Outlook (second was integrating FB).
I've never had a use for Outlook. Honestly, never once used it and been happy. I've tried nearly every version and always ended up moving to something else.
huh - I really wonder what makes one person like one email client and hate another.
I know for example, I dislike Google's Gmail - no folders - though the tags idea is growing on me.
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Familiarity? I don't really know. I've always hated Outlook. Thunderbird was decent. Zimbra web and Rackspace web have been my favourites. IMP was okay. OWA is improving but is too slow.
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Rackspace - wow.. that is one of the ugliest ones ever! NTG has a client of mine on Rackspace - man it's just awful.
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@Dashrender said:
Rackspace - wow.. that is one of the ugliest ones ever! NTG has a client of mine on Rackspace - man it's just awful.
Same one. Very ugly, but SO functional. Fast and simple. Actually works reliably.
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I figured out one thing I would miss with local access.
The ability to use FILE | SEND to send files.
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Slightly off topic... but I really liked the speed and functionality of Zoho's old web client... the new one is slow and not very functional.
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I managed about 10 email accounts each day. So Outlook is the best option for me. OWA isn't even an option. All the accounts I managed are on office 365 and I rarely have issues.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I managed about 10 email accounts each day. So Outlook is the best option for me. OWA isn't even an option. All the accounts I managed are on office 365 and I rarely have issues.
I don't have any issues with Outlook, so I wasn't sure what the deal was with people hating it so much.
I also have a SED, so I'm not worried about the data on my machine.
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I have very little issues. Sometimes my CRM connector forces me to reboot but that is about it.
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@BRRABill said:
@Minion-Queen said:
I managed about 10 email accounts each day. So Outlook is the best option for me. OWA isn't even an option. All the accounts I managed are on office 365 and I rarely have issues.
I don't have any issues with Outlook, so I wasn't sure what the deal was with people hating it so much.
I also have a SED, so I'm not worried about the data on my machine.
You have to secure your end point
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@scottalanmiller said:
You have to secure your end point
That's an issue.We will have to agree to disagree on that one, sir.
