[K12OSN] Please not M$ Exchange

[Burroughs, Henry]

Remember to, MS Exchange Web Access is pretty crippled in any other browser other than Internet Explorer.  The pretty features your boss may be seeing will go away if used with Firefox/Opera/Safari.  I'm stuck with Exchange at the moment due to Outlook.

Also, for firewalls stuff, I stopped writing iptables awhile ago and use firehol (firehol.sf.net).  It is a wonderful script that autogenerates your firewall rules using a fairly human readable language.  It also works from the principal of everything blocked unless you specifically allow it.  I do all kinds of SNAT/DNAT and other things with it.  It also has a "try" command that allows you to try a new firewall and if you cause yourself to be locked out of the firewall, it automatically reverts in 30 seconds to your working firewall.

Henry Burroughs
Technology Director
Hilton Head Preparatory School
www.hhprep.org


-----Original Message-----

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:25 -0400, "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:

> BTW, like several other list members, I too am a former MS Exchange 
> Server administrator.  There's no way I'd go back to it now.

That is the most compelling reason for a manager/director to NOT use Exchange. The advice of experienced exchange admins who have tried something else and now will NOT recommend Exchange.
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James P. Kinney III          
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