Inverse is proud to announce the first downloadable version of SOGo ZEG
with native Microsoft Outlook compatibility.
The virtual appliance consists of the latest development version of
SOGo, SOPE and OpenChange, properly installed and configured. Note that
the native Microsoft Outlook compatibility is still *considered as
experimental*. The fundamentals have been developed and the progress
towards an end-user usable version will be fast from now on.
Nonetheless, we release this "Technology Preview" ZEG edition to show
how promising this is.
== Getting it ==
To download ZEG "Technology Preview", simply point your browser to
http://www.sogo.nu/english/downloads/zeg.html
Look for "Virtual Appliance - Native Outlook Compatibility".
== Configuring Microsoft Outlook ==
First, you need to make sure you use Microsoft Outlook 2003. Right now,
this is the only supported version. Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010 will
soon be supported. We decided to first support Microsoft Office 2003 for
simplicity during the development cycles.
Prior configuring Microsoft Outlook, you first must boot the virtual
appliance. Make sure you're using a bridged network adapter and once the
virtual appliance has booted, write down the IP address being used by it.
From your Windows operating system, open the the
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" using Notepad and add the IP
address of the SOGo ZEG applicance:
<IP address> sogo.openchange.local sogo
like :
192.168.1.3 sogo.openchange.local sogo
To configure Microsoft Outlook 2003, first open the Control Panel and
double-click on the Mail icon. Click on the "E-mail Accounts..." button
and add a new email account. Then, choose "Microsoft Exchange Server"
account using the following parameters :
* IP address of the virtual appliance in the "Microsoft Exchange
Server:" field
* Uncheck "Use Cached Exchange Mode"
* Type in "openchange" in the "User Name:" field and don't click on
"Check Name"
* Then click on the "More Settings..." button and discard the warning
* In the "Microsoft Exchange Server" window, click "Ok" to continue
* From the "Security" tab, check "Always prompt for user name and
password"
* Click "Ok" to close the window
* Click "Next" and "Finish"
* Click again on the "E-mail Accounts..." button and modify the newly
created account
* Select "View or change existing e-mail accounts" and click "Next"
* From the "E-mail Accounts" window, set the "Deliver new e-mail to
the following locations:" to "OpenChange Mailbox - openchange" and click
on "Finish", and "Close"
If at any point you're asked to provide an username/password, simply use
"openchange" as the value of both. Right now, the ONLY usable account
from Microsoft Outlook is the "openchange" one. This limitation will
very soon be removed.
From Microsoft Outlook 2003, you should be able to perform normal
operations such as :
* Lists contacts, mails, events and tasks in your personal folders
* Create contacts, events and tasks in your personal folders
* Send and receive mails, consult the Inbox and Sent Items folders
* Create notes (which are stored on the filesystem, and not in SOGo)
Other operations, such as free busy lookups will soon be available.
Also, we created a small FAQ section with various Q&A on the current
state of things at :
http://www.sogo.nu/english/nc/support/faq/select_category/9.html
You can of course use SOGo on the ZEG at any moment (with the sogo1,
sogo2, sogo3 and openchange users) - simply open "http://<IP address>"
from your favorite web browser. The mail domain is "example.com" in case
you want to send mails to ZEG users.
== Installation / Update ==
Both SOGo and SOPE were installed from the Monotone repository while
OpenChange was installed using the "sogo" branch from their official
Subversion server.
To update those components on ZEG, simply sudo as root. Then, to update
SOGo, do:
cd /home/sogo/SOGo
mtn pull
mtn update; make install
To update SOPE, do:
cd /home/sogo/SOPE
mtn pull
mtn update; make install
To update OpenChange, do:
cd /home/sogo/openchange/sogo
svn update; make clean; make install
For OpenChange, you can also refer to those instructions:
http://tracker.openchange.org/projects/openchange/wiki/HowTo_Update_OpenChange_and_Samba_From_Source
Once done, simply restart the "sogo" service and also the "samba" service :
/etc/init.d/sogo restart
stop openchange
start openchange
See /etc/init/openchange.conf for details on the OpenChange/Samba
Upstart script. The SOGo/OpenChange log is located in
/var/log/openchange.log.
== Helping Out ==
There are many ways you can help us. You can:
* spread the good word about this technology preview!
* follow our development in the [email protected] mailing list and update
regularly the components mentioned above
* contact us if you want to sponsor specific features with regard to
Outlook / SOGo compatibility
Special thanks to the OpenChange developers for helping us delivering
this first technology preview.
Thanks,
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Ludovic Marcotte
[email protected] :: +1.514.755.3630 :: www.inverse.ca
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
(www.packetfence.org)
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https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
