Since 2004 I’ve been paying the nice folks over at Intermedia.net $30 a month for the pleasure of hosting my email on an Exchange Server - giving me Outlook web access, remote active sync, push email etc. But since I’m getting married next year i need to tighten up on expenditure so last week I flipped over to using Google Apps. It was remarkably simply to implement after signing up for my free account - changing my MX records to delivery to Google servers, adding a few CNAME records for custom start pages, calenders etc - on the whole it’s great and to be honest I’m not missing Exchange since I can get to it from anywhere. I have been investigating various Sync tools to keep contacts/calendar in sync from my SmartPhone - calendar is sorted using oggsync.com but am still looking for a contact sync tool. I used Sharepoint pretty heavily but with GoogleDocs I can achieve most of the same functionality (if not more) but i imagine with the much anticapted ‘GDrive’ that Google have been promising should more than suffice.
More on this as things develop…
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