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Rohidas - 21 Dec 2005 20:25 GMT

I just joined an organization as IT Manager. Their IT dept. has just put into
policy that all users must now use OWA exclusively, no more Outlook w/POP
accounts. When I questioned them about the reason for this, they told me that
Microsoft was discontinuing support for Outlook Express clients using POP
accounts w/Exchange. Is this true, and if so, what is the reason for it?
Thanks.

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Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I] - 22 Dec 2005 01:32 GMT

News to me. As far as I know, Exchange Server will continue to support both
POP3 and IMAP4 clients and Outook Express does both of these protocols.

Hal

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>I just joined an organization as IT Manager. Their IT dept. has just put
>into
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> accounts w/Exchange. Is this true, and if so, what is the reason for it?
> Thanks.

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Rohidas - 22 Dec 2005 16:06 GMT

Hal,

Thanks for the reply. There are people in my organization who are convinced
that Microsoft will be doing this. Do you know of any way that I might be
able to get confirmation from Microsoft directly on this? I'm not sure what
area of Msft to try to call. If you have a clue, I'd love to hear it, but
otherwise don't worry about it. And thanks again for responding.

Richard

> News to me. As far as I know, Exchange Server will continue to support both
> POP3 and IMAP4 clients and Outook Express does both of these protocols.
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> > accounts w/Exchange. Is this true, and if so, what is the reason for it?
> > Thanks.

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