Mobile email - corporate

Anyone any thoughts on the best solution to enable remote users to
connect to their Exchange 2003 SP2 mailbox?

Using Exchange's built-in push email with a phone running Windows
Mobile or Nokia E series is the cheapest option. However, battery
life on Windows Mobile devices concerns me and goes some way to
negating the familiar look and feel that Windows Mobile offers. On
the other hand, the Nokia E series, which gets away from Windows
Mobile battery life issue, doesn't integrate quite so well with
Exchange.

Next cheapest is Vodafone Business Email. Requires extra software
(Voda use the www.visto.com product) and a server to run it on, but
compatible with lots (100+) phones. The server doesn't connect to the
mobile devices but to Voda's network ops centre, so the server can be
put behind the corporate firewall - a reassuring security benefit.

Finally, Blackberry. The most expensive but nobody will get sacked
for buying it.

Paul Welsh pretended :
> Anyone any thoughts on the best solution to enable remote users to
> connect to their Exchange 2003 SP2 mailbox?
>
> Using Exchange's built-in push email with a phone running Windows
> Mobile or Nokia E series is the cheapest option. However, battery
> life on Windows Mobile devices concerns me and goes some way to
> negating the familiar look and feel that Windows Mobile offers. On
> the other hand, the Nokia E series, which gets away from Windows
> Mobile battery life issue, doesn't integrate quite so well with
> Exchange.
>
> Next cheapest is Vodafone Business Email. Requires extra software
> (Voda use the www.visto.com product) and a server to run it on, but
> compatible with lots (100+) phones. The server doesn't connect to the
> mobile devices but to Voda's network ops centre, so the server can be
> put behind the corporate firewall - a reassuring security benefit.
>
> Finally, Blackberry. The most expensive but nobody will get sacked
> for buying it.

If security is a concern - BlackBerry is the way to go.

If the potential for lots of data traffic (& resultant large bills) is
possible, BlackBerry is the way to go.

You don't say how many users you have.

Do you have an old server with OS lying around anywhere?

On 7 Jun, 18:48, Jono <notha...@blueyonder.invalid> wrote:
> You don't say how many users you have.

Oh, it will only be half a dozen people using it.

>
> Do you have an old server with OS lying around anywhere?- Hide quoted text -

Yup.