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<font size="-1">Hate to ask questions about Winders stuff. :P<br>
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The wife worked from home during the storm and I noticed she was
running Outlook in a web browser via Office 365. This really
interested me. My company is a small company so IT tasks fall on
me and I'm looking at eliminating as much as possible. Years back
I implemented SugarCRM and eliminated ACT! because an employee's
laptop died and he was unable to look up customer data. He and I
was sitting in an airport and I thought to myself that if I could
just give him my laptop he could look stuff up. When we got back
I did the conversion. <br>
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Seeing this stuff run in a browser means I can eliminate office
software on THEIR desktops. One of my guys still runs Office
2003. My #1 problem is Outlook. So many times I get people that
have mail in the outbox that will not leave. My latest problem is
where meeting invites will not leave and I think the only fix is a
reload of that machine.<br>
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If I can move Office from the computer and to a browser this means
that I have eliminated my dependence on their laptops. If they
have problems they can simply go to their desktop or another
laptop and log onto 365. Is my thinking correct? <br>
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I have them all using IMAPS. My mail server runs CentOS and usese
fetchmail to pull email via POP3 from our provider. Everyone uses
IMAPS to read their email from the CentOS system. Is this
compatible withe Outlook in the browser?<br>
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I would rather people run Libreoffice, but my main problem is
Outllook. These guys love it and are old and change will cause me
great pain. Converting to 365 in web form only means they can
have the same version of Office as everyone else and they are not
tied to a computer. <br>
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Anyone see a problem with this plan?<br>
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Chris<br>
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