Re: Demon Email

["paul_watkin" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>]

I can see the benefit from the caching perspective but am lost as to 
it's benefit in the context of enabling browsing the web and using 
Outlook etc, after all I can browse the web on my network now and I 
don't have a proxy server running (Or do I??).

Is a proxy server necessary in order to use Exchange?

Or am I missing something?

Paul


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Chris Bond" <chris@l...> wrote:
> Allows users on the network to browse the internet and use
internet
> based programs, ie. Microsoft Outlook, Netmeeting, etc, etc.  It
also if
> configured correctly can act as a firewall (in effect!).  As it's
a 
web
> the web proxy say you setup a 1GB Cache.  If someone requests
> www.microsoft.com and then another user comes along wanting the
same
> page it will return the cached page if www.microsoft.com hasn't 
changed,
> therefore not wasting bandwidth.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Chris Bond
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul_watkin [mailto:paul_watkin@n...] 
> Sent: 13 June 2002 3:56 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Demon Email
> 
> "Small Business Server come with Microsoft Proxy Server?
"
> 
> Can someone tell me in simple terms what a proxy server does and 
it's 
> benefit in the context of a small network i.e. less than 25 users 
> (assuming network size makes 1 iota's worth of difference)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- In ukha_d@y..., "Ray Barnett" <lists@t...>
wrote:
> > Does  Small Business Server come with Microsoft Proxy
Server? 
IIRC 
> this can
> > be configured to act as a firewall, assuming your Internet 
> connection comes
> > directly into the SBS machine.
> > 
> > Ray Barnett
> 
> 
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