Difference between Outlook IMAP vs Exchange

[Rebecca]

Hello,

I was wondering what features and/or functionality is lost using Outlook
2003 as an IMAP client versus using it with an Exchange server. (Say -
Exchange 2003.) This would be on a Win XP SP3 PC. Thanks.

Thanks.

Rebecca

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I was wondering what features and/or functionality is lost using

Outlook 2003 as an IMAP client versus using it with an Exchange
server. (Say - Exchange 2003.) This would be on a Win XP SP3 PC.

It's kind of apples and oranges. You'd basically lose all Exchange
functionality, but let me counter with this question: If you have
an Exchange server, why wouldn't you connect to it as an
Exchange server? Is there some reason why you'd even want
to make that decision?

Let me put it this way: You get more features out of Outlook
in connecting to an Exchange server via Exchange rather than
via IMAP.

 

[Rebecca]

Hi F.,

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. To answer yours - the
exact scenario is - we actulally do not have an exchange server...but we have
a lot of new employees that are coming from exchange environments. We offer
Outlook as one of our IMAP clients employees can use (other one is
Thunderbird), yet these people don't realize that there is a difference
between the phrase "Using Outlook for email" and "Using Outlook on Exchange
for email".

In other words, they are thinking that because they are using Outlook, even
if it's just as an IMAP client, that they should be getting all the features
they were used to at their prior company that used exchange. (So, they are
thinking the features are attached to Outlook itself and not the exchange
server.)

So, we want to put together a list of Exchange/Outlook features that will
not be available to them when they are using Outlook as an IMAP client only
so we in IT don't have to keep answering the question over and over and over
again, "This worked at my last company - why doesn't it work the same way
here? It's the same Outlook!".

So, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Rebecca