[GRLUG] Using Ubuntu instead of windows at work.

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 09:54:41AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Michael Glaske <mglaske at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > So.  What I need to do my work is this:
> > 1. Connectivity to Exchange 2007, so I can use email, contact, calendars,
> > meeting scheduling, etc.
> >  - I have found a couple options, Evolution w/ Exchange MAPI add on, which
> > seem very buggy.  IMAP which is not really acceptable, or using actual
> > Outlook itself through Crossover.
> 
> I'm not familiar with more/better options for your use case, with one
> exception: IIRC, Evolution supports operating through Exchange's web
> interface. You'd need to poke your Exchange admins to get that
> enabled, though. I haven't played with it myself; I've never had to
> touch Exchange.

Evolution supports OWA (Outlook Web Access) for Exchange 2000 and 2003,
but not 2007 (2010 has something similar but not called OWA; either way,
doesn't work).  Evolution will only connect to Exchange 2007 via MAPI.

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