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[Bo Peabody]

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[jaebea]

Hrm, in broad strokes, and strictly technical terms:

A "network server" is any host on the network that provides services for the network. This could be something as powerful as a domain controller, or it could be something like a webserver running on an old Pentium2 in the corner of the office.

An "Outlook server" could be one of two things. It could fall under the umbrella of a generic "mail server", running any number of server applications on any type of operating system to run IMAP/POP3/SMTP services. It could also refer (more likely) to a mailserver running Microsoft Exchange, which is MS's mailserver software, which has some neat collaborative features built into it, like shared task lists, calendars, and integration with MS Office.

jae.

[Nowhere Man]

I suppose Jae's response kind of answers this, but I don't really get the purpose of Outlook/Thunderbird.

How many of you on this board actually use them?

I was basically born and raised on Hotmail and other web-based email servers.

OL/TB seem to be an un-needed facade. Do they add to security in any way? What tasks do they perform that a web-based server doesn't?

I ask this because dealing with my family back home drives me crazy. They just can't come to grips with the idea that you can e-mail without outlook. They get e-mail accounts from their local ISPs and are sure they need OL/TB. Why? Dunno.

Is there any advantage to this?

Sorry, Bo, for hijacking.

[jaebea]

Well in the day and age of current email services and broadband, there's really no reason to use a mail based client at all for most people.

I prefer to tie in all my email accounts through one interface, instead of logging in numerous different websites and whatnot. I can just configure my client, collect my mail, have spam filtering before I even have to look at it and have it linked with a calendar that'll pop up with important dates and stuff I'll need to do for that day/week/month.

But otherwise, if you have one main account you take around with you (like gmail), there's no real need to use clients.

jae.

[Bo Peabody]

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[jaebea]

BP,

All of the things you have mentioned will be stored and maintained by the Exchange server unless explicitly configured otherwise.

jae.

[Bo Peabody]

Thanks.

[Wrench]

Ok Network server is a server that serves a network of computers usually a LAN situation.

Network server can do all kinds of different tasks, it can be a file server, application server, Intranet server etc..

"Outlook server" there is no such thing. If you're talking about a Email server your talking about MS Exchange server. Outlook server is more like a proxy or a firewall server because it Looks out for network trafic between WAN and LAN.

Usually a Network server and an Exchange server shouldn't be the same box because of the security risks. But if money is tight you can do both on one box.

[Bulsajo]

I don't know how it is deployed (i.e. what they call the server... I suspect it is just "mail server") but to answer Nowhere Man's question, Outlook and similar programs like Novell Groupwise are absolutely indispensable to large organizations. Without the extra email options (like acknowledgement receipts and and retractions) and especially the calendar/schedule meeting request functions, I wouldn't last a day.