Topic: sharing outlook calendars

[sal1504]

I have a customer using outlook 2003 for their calendaring. They currently are not sharing the calendars but are wanting to. I DO NOT want to use MS Exchange server but want to keep using outlook 2003 on the workstations. What are some alternates to exchange server that will work on SME and are stable. I have looked thru the forum and found some programs that look like they would work, but would like the input from people using the programs. 

Sal

[FraunhoferIFF]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37574.0

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wget -r -l1 -A.rpm --no-parent http://smeserver.free.fr/Files/open-xchange/ox7/
cd /root/smeserver.free.fr/Files/open-xchange/ox7
yum localinstall *.rpm
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
/usr/local/open-xchange/sbin/initall_ox

https://your.server/cgi-bin/login.pl

Marcel

[mmccarn]

Here's a note on how to do this if you have Outlook 2007 on all clients: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=39510.0 

If you don't have Outlook 2007, I suspect that the Mozilla Sunbird Calendar client would work fine, and also that you might be able to get similar behaviour in Outlook 2003 using the 'funambol SyncML' client for outlook.


Egroupware also offers a way to sync calendars w/ Outlook; perhaps it could be used to sync a "shared" calendar with multiple, different users: http://wiki.contribs.org/Egroupware

Zarafa also offers Exchange-replacement features: http://wiki.contribs.org/Zarafa

Kronolith (http://wiki.contribs.org/Kronolith) is the Horde calendaring module (Horde is the default SME webmail provider).
Cyrus-Imap is another option: http://wiki.contribs.org/Cyrus-imap

Be very careful - openxchange, zarafa, and cyrus-imap all make extensive modifications to your SME server configuration, replacing core components with custom services that will not be kept up-to-date and may cause problems during a normal sme software update!

[sal1504]

Thank you for the input. I have decided to look into open-xchange and zarafa. I am starting with open0-xchange and have it loaded. Everything is working well from the web side of the program what I need to know is what connectors can I use with this program to share the calendars? Do I need to purchase a connector from the software company or can I use something like SyncML? I have searched the forum and it looks like I need to purchase the connector but thought I would ask about alternatives first.

Sal

[kevinb]

We have used Scalix. It has 10 free Outlook connectors.

[soprom]

I've been using cyrus-imap with Toltec for a few years, but Zarafa, now opensource, looks easier to maintain. It also allows per user mail service (standard sme7 vs zarafa).

EGroupware to outlook works fine but I'm not sure if sharing between users will work. Also needs php5 to work correctly.