Posted by
Cliff
on from the if-you-can't-arrange-to-exchange-Exchange dept.
itwerx asks: "A client of mine is wedded to Exchange 2000 for their email server but would like to move away from Outlook Web Access (OWA) for security reasons. Thereareseveral possibilities but I'm wondering what experience the Slashdot community has had with these (or other) options."
Let the morons begin
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Now the question posed was not well defined, but your going to have a really hard time to find a good alternative to Outlook Web Access, if you also want to privde the same functionality.
If you want users to be able to set up meetings, check their co workers schedules, send email, look up their contacts etc, and the repsository for this info is Exchange your pretty much stuck, or your going to spend serious time, integrating a lot of different solutions, into something much less slick.
You might want to look into ways you can lock up outlook with web acccess. First off run it on seperate computers of course from the Exchange server, place the OWAs in the DMZ, prefrably make ppl VPN into them, run Microsofts new proxy server as an added security meassure. Run really good firewalls, you might even want to look into running reverse proxies on a UNIX platform in order to "shield" the MS machines more.
SuSE Linux OpenExchange Server
by
Joe+Tennies
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It's not a free alternative, but it's supposed to be cheaper and can still be used w/ outlook (and therefore should work w/ evolution too).
http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_busi ness/openexchange/
I have no affiliation w/ SuSE. I just find this product interesting.
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Now the question posed was not well defined, but your going to have a really hard time to find a good alternative to Outlook Web Access, if you also want to privde the same functionality.
If you want users to be able to set up meetings, check their co workers schedules, send email, look up their contacts etc, and the repsository for this info is Exchange your pretty much stuck, or your going to spend serious time, integrating a lot of different solutions, into something much less slick.
You might want to look into ways you can lock up outlook with web acccess. First off run it on seperate computers of course from the Exchange server, place the OWAs in the DMZ, prefrably make ppl VPN into them, run Microsofts new proxy server as an added security meassure. Run really good firewalls, you might even want to look into running reverse proxies on a UNIX platform in order to "shield" the MS machines more.
It's not a free alternative, but it's supposed to be cheaper and can still be used w/ outlook (and therefore should work w/ evolution too). http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/suse_busi ness/openexchange/
I have no affiliation w/ SuSE. I just find this product interesting.