A question for all of you experts out there.
We are currently upgrading all of our users to Office 2013. We are also upgrading our SharePoint environment to SP2013 on-prem. But I just found out that our Exchange Server is 2010 and that IT does not plan on upgrading it for a couple of years.
Will we have reduced functionality from SharePoint (and Office) 2013 with Exchange Server 2010?
From what I’ve read, I’m fairly certain that the ability to roll up tasks and to-do lists from Outlook with SharePoint task lists requires Exchange Server 2013. Am I correct in my assumption?
Can anyone point me to information? Are there talking points that I can use to convince IT that we need to upgrade Exchange as well?
Thanks in advance for any input/advice anyone can share.
Some points that can help you would be capabilities such as:
- eDiscovery across SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 (also Lync 2013 if needed)
- Site Mailboxes within SharePoint environment – Shared mailboxes that are available within the SharePoint environment include email. Also documents are made available within Outlook 2013.
These along with the Task Aggregation feature that you talked about maybe helpful when persuading your IT people of the need.
there you go: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38799
in short: to get ALL features yes, but who needs ALL features 😉
I heard stuff like that, but I don’t got a source for you at the moment. I heard a lot of IT pros complain about it.
