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Attachment Sharing - 17.Sep.2007 6:44:38 PM

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Hi, hope this is the right thread to post this in, but at my work we are using a ms exchange 2003 server here at our corp. headcourters.

we are trying to find a way, if possible, to share email attachments between us and our out of state offices as the vpn takes a really long time to download the attachments.

we will be setting up a file share sever that will distribute stored files to both servers to keep both servers in sync between both offices fairly soon and were wondering if we could store the attachments there, but would rather use the exhange server if possible.

any information on the topic, solutions, ideas, or where the attachments are stored on the server would be great.

thanks for your help in advance.

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RE: Attachment Sharing - 22.Sep.2007 5:42:11 PM

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Why not use Public Folders to store documents, attachments and so on?

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RE: Attachment Sharing - 24.Sep.2007 11:14:39 AM

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We are probably going to end up using the distributed file server w/ active directory, but we can't use public folders due to confidential documents.

I was just trying to find out if there was another way, so that we could prevent an extra step, because that means they have to periodically check their "attachments" folder.

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RE: Attachment Sharing - 24.Sep.2007 11:36:22 AM

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Being a Public Folder doesn't mean that everyone has access to it. You can lock down the permissions to just those that need it. In fact, setting the permissions to NONE prevents a user or group from even seeing the folder name in the list.

What other way are you envisioning? Perhaps you can elaborate?

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RE: Attachment Sharing - 24.Sep.2007 11:46:51 AM

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We are looking for something like what our dfs would do, but more with our exchange server. Is there a way to sync up two exchange servers, or send the hard copy of the attachment. We are basically looking for any kind of solution to speed up the attachment downloads, another reason we don't want public folders, for our out of state offices.

If not, and we are just wishing, that is fine because our dfs will temporarily work.

Once again, thanks for your insight.

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RE: Attachment Sharing - 24.Sep.2007 1:39:12 PM

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Public folders works like DFS in that it can replicate its data amongst Exchange servers (you configure which folders replicate to which servers). That way the data can be locally stored on the mailbox server to which a user connects.

What is the current bottleneck for downloading files now, and how will that be different if the data is somehow connected with Exchange?

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