On Nov 27, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>
>> We've been undergoing a migration to Exchange based email at work

> I used to work under an Exchange server environment. If you use it 
> only as
> email server, it didn't seem to be much of a problem to open up 
> IMAP/SMTP
> access. But if you use it for more than that, I guess you have to use
> Outlook as client.

Ah, but "integrated calendaring" is supposed to be the big carrot
associated with the "exchange stick."  Strangely, the engineering
community that doesn't like meetings in the first place doesn't think
that this is much of a carrot :-)  Alas, it's the upper management
that seemingly doesn't do anything BUT meetings that gets to make
the decision to deploy exchange...

In addition to turning on IMAP/etc on the exchange servers, they've
apparently deployed "Outlook Web Access" that allows MOST calendar
stuff to be done from most web browsers.  Alas, there are a few things
that only work when using Internet Explorer as the web browser, making
the whole setup just wildly "loved" by the assorted unix crowds (Mac,
linux, xBSD, solaris...)

BillW

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