Configure Outlook to connect to Exchange over the internet

[Frank Jara]

We have a few "work from home" employees who want me to setup their Outlook
on their home computers. No one here has done that because we have OWA.
How would I set this up?

Thank you in advanced for your responses.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You didn't say what version of Exchange is in use at work, therefore the
best I can suggest is that if the site is running a Windows 2003 Active
Directory domain with Exchange 2003 installed on Windows 2003 servers and
your employees are running Windows XP (SP2) with Office/Outlook 2003, then
they can connect via RPC over HTTPS.

Anything less that the above, and they would have to VPN in to the site and
then use Outlook.

 

[Frank Jara]

Thank you Neo for your response. We have the exact setup as you described.
Is RPC over HTTPS my only option?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Assuming your users want the full Outlook experience and don't want to VPN
into the corporate backbone first, yes.

Just so you know, Exchange does support POP3/IMAP/SMTP, but I don't like
suggesting it as it never fails that a machine at home pops all the email
out of the inbox and then the user comes back to work and asks... "where did
my e-mail go?". How often do you think I giggle and then end up doing a
mailbox restore?)