Exchange Server - Office/Outlook 2010 compatible with Exchange 2003??

Asked By tom12010

08-Feb-10 12:46 PM

Can anyone at all comment about this topic??
Or must we upgrade to Exchange 2010 to be able to use Outlook 2010??
Thank you, Tom

09-Feb-10 01:15 AM

I have not tried it, but every version of the Exchange Client and Outlook has
worked with every version of Exchange, so I see no reason why it would not
work, subject to the function set provided by the server.
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Ed Crowley MVP
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09-Feb-10 02:51 AM

There is a service update thing for Exchange 2003 for OWA
with Vista or Windows 7, because Vista and Windows 7
can have problems with the ActiveX control used for OWA.

Apart from that, you would hope that there will be some new
function, that will not work until you get Exchange 2010 and
SharePoint server, but whatever it is, it will not be the email.
Email will work correctly.

(david)

09-Feb-10 11:26 AM

I would imagine so.  You can test, download Office 2010 Beta and see if OL
2010 connects to your Exchange 2003 Server.

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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2009
Microsoft Certified Partner

10-Feb-10 03:37 PM

I have had Outlook 2010 beta on a Windows 7 machine for about 2 weeks.
Connects fine to Exchange 2003. This is not my primary machine so I
have not had a lot of time to devote to working with it yet but
everything seems to work fine so far. Outlook 2010 defaults to a weird
conversation view when you first install it and I had to turn that off
but otherwise it is not difficult to navigate. They went with the
ribbons like the other office applications in 2007 so the interface
looks different.