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Originally Posted by photon
There's got to be lower cost solutions out there, it's not like what you are wanting to do is uncommon at all.
Setting up an Exchange server for 15 users seems like asking to be beaten with a stick for fun. 
EDIT: I've become a big proponent of getting services or experts for things that need them. |
The more I look at it, the more I agree.
I don't want to do what would be essentially wasting time setting up an Exchange server for about 10 users, where only half them use the calender and the contact list. The rest just email.
I'd rather go with a hosted solution.
So my question is, from what I understand, Exchange downloads a cached copy of all your emails onto the computer, and whenever something changes on the server(new email)...it changes on your computer too. You delete an email, it gets deleted on the server too. Your computer crashes and you lose all your emails, as soon as you reinstall, setup Outlook, all your emails on the server get downloaded onto your computer, etc, etc. Is this the same with the calender/contacts? Is there an actual copy of everything on your computer? Or does your computer always go to the server and take that information? I would think not.
Reason I'm asking is because our internet, like any other internet can go down at times, and if I'm using a hosted solution, I would still prefer to have access to my contacts, be able to write drafts, look at the calender, have access to my inbox, etc, etc. I would want that functionality for all our computers.