Re: Upgrading Vista to Business

cdsisda wrote:
> I have a laptop with vista home premium. Setting up an exchange
> mailbox at work, apparently I need to upgrade my windows software.
> Is it better (and cheaper) to i) upgrade to vista business or ii)
> down to XP professional or iii) upgrade to windows 7 [business]? I
> have same problem with a PC on XP Home Edition; what should i do
> there?
>
> Looking for the easiest and cheapest solution. Thanks.

You do not need to upgrade Windows in order to utilize Microsoft Exchange.
As long as you can install/use Outlook (a Microsoft Office product) and/or
if the Exchange administrators have been so kind as to give you Outlook Web
Access - then you are all set.

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cdsisda wrote:
> I have a laptop with vista home premium. Setting up an exchange
> mailbox at work, apparently I need to upgrade my windows software.
> Is it better (and cheaper) to i) upgrade to vista business or ii)
> down to XP professional or iii) upgrade to windows 7 [business]? I
> have same problem with a PC on XP Home Edition; what should i do
> there?
>
> Looking for the easiest and cheapest solution. Thanks.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> You do not need to upgrade Windows in order to utilize Microsoft
> Exchange. As long as you can install/use Outlook (a Microsoft
> Office product) and/or if the Exchange administrators have been so
> kind as to give you Outlook Web Access - then you are all set.

I can add to that even further - if the Exchange Administrators allow the
use of POP3 or IMAP - you could also use just about any other email client
you desire/like.

Or is it you want/have to join the work domain?

You shouldn't need to join the domain with your computer to access
email/access printers/access shares unless it is a very strict environment
(most are no where near that strict.)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

cdsisda wrote:
> I have a laptop with vista home premium. Setting up an exchange
> mailbox at work, apparently I need to upgrade my windows software.
> Is it better (and cheaper) to i) upgrade to vista business or ii)
> down to XP professional or iii) upgrade to windows 7 [business]? I
> have same problem with a PC on XP Home Edition; what should i do
> there?
>
> Looking for the easiest and cheapest solution. Thanks.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> You do not need to upgrade Windows in order to utilize Microsoft
> Exchange. As long as you can install/use Outlook (a Microsoft
> Office product) and/or if the Exchange administrators have been so
> kind as to give you Outlook Web Access - then you are all set.

cdsisda wrote:
> Thanks. Just to be clear I want to use outlook looking at the
> exchange client directly; i don't want to go via web access.
>
> No funky stuff on the laptop - it's all vanilla, a samsung q310.
> What is the disadvantage of a clean install - will I lose
> everything on the laptop?

If all you want to do is use Outlook to connect to the Exchange server - you
do not need to upgrade your Operating System. Your Windows Vista Home
Premium will run Outlook (which is what gets configured to connect to
Exchange) just fine.

So I don't know why you think you need to upgrade your operating system
(Windows Vista Home Premium) at all and/or do any sort of clean install.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
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