Hosted Exchange 2003

OSO now offers Hosted Exchange 2003 Collaboration Tools.

Benefits of using Microsoft Exchange

With Microsoft Exchange 2003, you are better able to collaborate with your department or team by setting up a shared calendar, shared contacts, & shared files.
Export your existing calendar & contacts into a shared Exchange calendar & contacts that you can share with colleagues.
Microsoft Outlook 2003 integration.
Outlook Web Access* also available via Internet Explorer.
Exchange supports ActiveSync for your Mobile Device so you can stay connected wherever you go.

Benefits of using the OSO Managed, Hosted Exchange Solution

No administrative overhead. Simply call or email our experienced staff and we’ll do the work. You do not have to hire or contract out additional IT resources.
No hardware or software to purchase.
Best-of-Breed Spam & Email Virus Protection with the OSO-Clean service – powered by Postini.
20 MB POP3 Email Included* hosted on our redundant, high availability, Linux-based email.
100 MB total disk space per user. 50 MB Mailbox on Exchange Server & 50 MB public folder space per user. Additional space available at an additional price.

Pricing & Requirements

$12.95 per month with OSO-Clean Spam & Email Virus Protection.
MS Outlook 2003 & Windows XP SP2 Highspeed Connection Required.

*OSO Hosted Exchange 2003 offers a complete Exchange collaboration solution, though email is operated via the standard OSO mail servers – not the Exchange Server. Collaborative features and synchronized email are accessible via Outlook Web Access. New email must be accessed via OSO webmail.

**Setup Instructions**

New Email Account

Add Exchange via the mail icon in the control panel.

Use exchange.osogrande.com as the server name – under “more settings” click the Advanced tab and ensure there is a checkmark in the “use cached Exchange mode” and with “Download Public Folder Favorites”.

Click the Connection tab and check the “Connect to my exchange mailbox using http” box and click the Exchange Proxy settings button.

Enter exchange.osogrande.com for the URL to create the user session, then select Basic Authentication under the Proxy authentication settings. Click OK.

Add the POP email using mail.osogrande.com as the incoming server and smtp.osogrande.com as the outgoing email server. Click More settings and then the Advanced Tab. Put a checkmark in the Leave a copy of message on the server and a checkmark in the remove from the server when deleted from ‘Deleted Items.’ Direct all incoming mail to the folders setup by Exchange.

Setup AutoArchive.

Transitioning an existing email over to Exchange:

Setup Exchange from the mail icon in the control panel using New Email Procedure.

Import Existing Email and other settings from the old pst or copy over from personal folders. After the Exchange mailbox has been selected as the default delivery location, you can right-click on the personal folders and close them.

Setup AutoArchive

Tips on Usage:

If the user is not prompted for the Exchange password when Outlook is opened, click File and then uncheck “work offline.” Username should appear in the following format: EXCHANGE\username. Users should be trained to briefly check that they are not offline when they launch Outlook.

Click Tools – Options – Mail Setup Tab and click the send/receive button. Check the box to send/receive every 5 minutes or so if you want to simulate an IMAP connection.

Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Users can access their email, calendars, contacts, etc. via the Internet Explorer browser by going to https://exchange.osogrande.com/exchange and logging in with their username and Exchange password.

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