Chapter 22. Designing Mobility in Exchange Server 2003

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Accessing Outlook Using VPN Connectivity

• Leveraging Exchange ActiveSync for PDA Mobile Communications

• Using Outlook Mobile Access for Browser-Based Devices

• Designing the Appropriate Use of Exchange 2003 Mobility Capabilities

• Using Exchange Mobility for the Mobile Executive

• Replacing Laptops with Mobile Pocket Devices

• Leveraging a Low-Cost PDA Instead of an Expensive Tablet

• Best Practices

With previous versions of Microsoft's Exchange product, mobility either meant setting up a dial-up or VPN connection to a full Outlook client on a laptop or ending up being drastically limited in features with a partially featured Outlook Web client, or purchasing a third-party product and integrating it into Exchange. With Exchange 2003, however, mobility now includes several options that provide full access to mail, calendars, and contacts, plus varying built-in methods to access information using mobile phones or PDA devices.

Microsoft's strategy on mobility is to provide the ability to have access to email, calendar, contacts, and other important information virtually anywhere. The various mobile access methods to Exchange include

• Full Outlook client access over VPN

• Full Outlook client access using HTTP Proxy

• Outlook Web Access from a browser

• Pocket PC access updated by Exchange ActiveSync

• Mobile phone access using mobile Web

• Accessing Exchange by non-Windows systems