Migrating from Seagate Info 7.5 to CR Server XI release 2 - HTML problem

We are currently trying to migrate from using Seagate Info 7.5 to using Crystal Reports Server XI Release 2, for our reports generation / scheduling.
We currently have a number of reports which are generated as HTML and saved to a network shared folder. These reports are viewed by internal users and are updated every 15 minutes. This works well at the moment as the users have a browser shortcut to the report page and hit refresh every now and then to see updated content.
However, in CR Server XI R2, there is no option to export HTML. So what would be the recommended workaround in this situation?
Thanks in advance.

I wasn't aware that CR Server doesn't include OpenDocument, are you certain?
I think CR Server should have Crystal Reports URL Reporting though, called viewrpt.cwr. You can achieve pretty much the same with this, documentation is in our developer library:
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2/en/devsuite.htm
Developer Library home > BusinessObjects Enterprise SDK > .NET developer guide and API reference > Viewing Reports and Documents using URLs > URL Reporting for Crystal Reports.

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iWork does well enough to read and write Office files locally, so I don't have experience with Microsoft Office. The Windows mail clients can certainly access Unix mail servers. As for what connectivity is present within Office, I'm way too rusty with Windows to comment. What used to be the Outlook Express client worked just fine with Unix mail servers. The full-on Office Outlook client was pretty flaky with stuff other than Exchange, but that was some years ago.
Biggest issues with SBS migrations tend to be with shared Address Book, with shared Calendars and with Sharepoint services; if you're heavy users of those features, you might find the Mac OS X Server implementations lacking. Kerio can potentially help here.
Look around the forums for some other folks. This particular SBS migration has been fairly common fodder for discussions.

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