Roaming POP accounts?

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Hi all,

I have a small network with Windows Server SBS 2008 with 4 users logging in. Uses Active directory so we have roaming profiles.

But, is there a way of having roaming email, without using Exchange?

They all have POP accounts, but i'd like the email to be roaming as well.
Perhaps something like having the PST file on their "My Documents" roaming drive? What about the account settings?

Thanks all
 
It should be possible if the PST files and app data are all roaming folders. That said, you've got exchange as part of SBS so why not use it?
 
Can't use Exchange as we only have the single server, and I heard bad things about using Exchange on the main server? Also it's a pain to set up?

Outlook web access?

Not looking to use webmail purely for the speed issue
 
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Erm sorry but what?

SBS 2008 is designed specifically to run as a one box solution (two if you go to the premium licence) and in small deployments like yours it is no problem what so ever to run it all on one machine.

A pain to set up... it's all wizard based on SBS and 2K8 even more so, it gets upset if you don't use them but other than that it is pretty much click and fill in some boxes.

I currently have a client with 8 users, 3 of whom work from home on a regular basis running on a little SBS2008 machine using a mixture of VPN's and OWA to fulfil their needs.

They're on a 10 down 2 up annex m DSL connection from AAISP and the VPN and remote web stuff flies along.

You lose a bit of functionality in the web based outlook client (though using IE to access it is pretty full featured) and it's far from slow.

Just some food for thought there...

EDIT:

Just seen your location so guess you may not quite have that sort of bandwidth on the upstream of your internet connection but even so before they upgraded to an annex m line that same client was running pretty well on a 480k upstream BT Business DSL connection.
 
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Ah, thanks for that. I just hear quite a few different opinions, the last being Exchange was hideous to use, set up and if it's run on the main box, we'd "definitely lose an email or two"!

So it's safe to do so, use Exchange?
 
Exchange is used by millions of people worldwide every day, thousands of huge companies use it to host their email so yes I'd say it is pretty decent.

I would recommend having a read through some of the SBS 2k8 documentation before you deploy it but it really is as simple as running a couple of wizards and setting up some DNS records for your domain.

If you have a slightly ropey connection then I would also make sure you have backup MX records set up, in our case our ISP helps us out with this but your hosting provider should be able to do something.
 
Just going to chime in here. Tres, you are half right, it's generally considered bad practise to install Exchange on a box running anything else but SBS is designed to all run together.
 
Thanks all, really appreciate it.

I'll probably look at getting Exchange up and running then.
It would help a great deal, rather than attempting roaming pops/login registry scripts etc.
 
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