Shaine Mata

Dual Exchange Accounts

Originally uploaded by shainelee.

Due to my new job at South Texas Communications, I have had to set up my Windows Mobile phone on the company’s Exchange server. There is no getting away from it as scheduling and email are well used and necessary as a part of the business. This means that I had to remove my personal Exchange account from the phone. The problem with this is that I have so many connections through my personal account that it would be a handicap to simply abandon it. Fortunately, I was able to add my personal email back on as an IMAP service. This allows me to read and delete emails from anywhere. The downside is that I don’t have calendar access.

You may be wondering, why would Shaine need another calendar? Why not migrate stuff over? There is security issue with my job. Some of our company contracts are with Border Patrol, Coast Guard, local police, and other security forces. For this reason, I cannot share some information with my Virtual Assistant that is in my email. When you log into Outlook Web Access, you have almost everything that regular Outlook has. So, she would see sensitive company information, which I’m sure my bosses would frown upon. I want my assistant to have the ability to update my work calendar without accessing it. The best solution is to have her enter events onto my personal calendar and then add me as a required attendee at my work calendar. This way she can keep me updated without seeing what’s in my work account. She can also send personal emails on my behalf through my personal Outlook account.