"I also imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more skilled tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis, than does a mom & pop operation."

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After furious head scratching, Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] asked:

| In ,
| Milly Staples - MVP Outlook
| typed:
|| My organization (government agency) still uses NT 4 servers and
|| probably will for some time to come.
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|| If it works for them, let them continue to use it. Just because
|| something is archaic and unsupported is not a reason to automatically
|| upgrade.
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| I don't think that's a reasonable analogy. MS Mail was cruddy when it
| *was* supported....and I suspect there are reasons that a gov't
| agency might not upgrade (scope of project, and red tape) that likely
| don't apply to a small business, even one on a limited budget. I also
| imagine that a government agency has a teensy bit more skilled
| tech/engineering support available to it on a fulltime basis, than
| does a mom & pop operation.
|
| And no, I don't think SBS will work
| for you, Milly. ;-)
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||| Sam Rodar typed:
|||| I know that Outlook 2003 does not work with Microsoft Mail. Just
|||| wondering if anyone knows of a workaround or third party program
|||| that would allow Outlook 2003 to work with Mail? I have a customer
|||| with one user in their office using Outlook 2003 and all the others
|||| still using Outlook 2000. They are also using Microsoft Mail for
|||| inte-office e-mail and would
|||| like, if possible, for the upgraded user to still use Microsoft
|||| Mail as well.
|||| Thanks.
||||
|||| Sam
|||
||| In addition to Milly's reply, I don't know what your line of
||| business is, but if it's at all in the IT way, note that you might
||| do this customer a great service if you were to gently suggest that
||| they stop using archaic, unsupported technology for something as
||| important as e-mail. If they are a small shop, Small Business
||| Server 2003 might be a very good fit for them. If I were to go into
||| a shop still relying on OL2000 and MS Mail, the first thing I'd do
||| is write up a proposal to get rid of both!