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by robconery 5657 days ago
This is interesting - I'm assuming that by "Exchange Integration" you're talking about Calendaring, appointments, and so on yes? I don't get the connection between your use of Exchange and your client's use of Exchange.

Put another way - I'm imagining you have a "Add to Outlook" bit of functionality which makes perfect sense. But the format is quite open and it, after all, a text file. How does this jibe with your web offering and your need for Exchange?

The main reason I ask is that Exchange is (generally) seen as not necessary in a startup (company < 20 or so). Typically they'll use Google apps or another hosted service which will accept their domain (Live.com does this as well).

Can you detail more why you needed Exchange with a Web app?

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We wrote a utility that will run on a customer's windows server that syncs data from our webapp to their local server. Some of that data is calendar events and it saves those directly to the customers exchange server. Granted not all of our customers will use this functionality, but enough will to make it worth writing.

Our software is for attorneys and many attorneys love outlook + exchange + blackberry server, even small offices.