Is Microsoft exchange the right answer for your firm?(From The Trenches: Real-life solutions for real-life accountants)(Microsoft Exchange Server)

CPA Technology Advisor, The, January, 2005 by Johnston, Randy

As firms continue to change their technology to the latest Microsoft Server 2003, Windows SBS Server 2003 Novell NetWare or Linux operating systems, frequent questions asked are these Should I use Microsoft Exchange 2003? What are the alternatives?

Exchange is the Microsoft server add-on that handles e-mail, shared calendars, shared contacts and to-do lists. The shared contacts and shared calendar function is a convenient place to store all general contact information for your firm. The trick with the shared contacts is keeping them synchronized with other sources of name, address and phone numbers throughout your firm. Over time, this will get better as vendors like CCH, Thompson, Intuit and others make the integration into their systems tight and synchronized...

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