Calendar sync program needed!

[shatpank81]

Hi
I work for a company where they just had a 2012 standard server installed from an sbs 2003
So obviously we lost exchange functionality! (Unless they paid top dollar for it)
Anyway, they just needed imap mail because boss didnt want to upgrade to full exchange or even upgrade our versions of office/outlook from 2003 to something more up to date.
so i had a look around and found rackspace mail (£1.35 per user) which as been fine, but now the boss is losing is mind over calendar sync!!

He rightly said he used to be able to sit at home with the old exchange server and from his iphone go into calendars and say "i am off tomorrow" and we would all get that notification.
But with rackspace the calendar is only editable using their webmail, and only viewable in outlook and on phones and not editable!

So he as proper thrown is toys out of the pram, well now he wants me to find a way of syncing calendars in outlook and iphones etc but with the minimal of cost and effort!
He is happy with the cost of rackspace, but it took the best part of 2 days to export all mail from exchange and then import into the rackspace accounts so moving supplier is a no go!

I should have just moved us to google mail for business, but he moaned about the £33 per user a year or even microsoft exchange online but it was insistence of sticking with outlook 2003 that put me off exchange online

So is there a product anyone knows of that will enable outlook and mobile device sync?

 

[shatpank81]

thanks all
yes we are a complete Office 2003 company.

well i have setup 365 for a charity i do work for (E1 no cost for the charity) and i liked it so i showed him that, but the cost was a huge no-go!
then Google was the next cheapest, i knew we didnt need google docs but was still good value at £33 a year.
that was dismissed with "surely there is something cheaper?"

i found rackspace and its ok for the money, i prefer using the webmail as are most of the staff, for our calendars and as a better feel than outlook 2003 does.

i will tell him he will have to either get used to the webmail or the purse strings have to be loosened.... a lot

he only upgraded the Server, because our software needed 64bit SQL and he had a little cry at that expense.
think i may have to get a tissue ready for him

 

[shatpank81]

the insistence to not move from office 2003 was the reason we didnt go with office 365/exchange online
when i say they needed imap, that was because at the time all i was tasked with was finding mail with 25gb mailboxes, to support shared calendaring and be compatible with office 2003... at a certain price point.
its just shared calendaring is through webmail only is the issue.

no we all have refurbished windows 7 PC's

 

[shatpank81]

Is getting a job somewhere else an option?

haha i am actively looking