Inverse is proud to announce the seventh 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".
For configuration instructions, look at the following FAQ:
http://www.sogo.nu/english/nc/support/faq/article/how-to-configure-outlook-to-work-with-openchange.html
== Changes ==
Here is a list of changes performed by the Inverse team since TP6 was
released :
* Added notifications support, meaning that views will now be
refreshed as soon as an element is created, modified or deleted
* Added support for multiple users (see below for instructions)
* Various other small bug fixes and minor improvements
== Upcoming improvements ==
The follow improvements will occur in the next following days, likely
resulting in a TP8 :
* Integrate the mapistore_v2 work which will allow us to support all
SOGo user folders and all SOGo users easily (making freebusy lookup for
other users more easy)
* Initial recurrence support for events and tasks
Some bug fixes or improvements need to be added in OpenChange to make
the solution even more usable and we are working with them to :
* Reminder issues which can cause Outlook to disconnect momentarily
Those will be added once the mapistore_v2 transition is completed.
== 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 from TP4, simply sudo as root. Then
run the following script :
/home/sogo/update.sh
You might want to restart Outlook after the update.
== Adding users to an existing environments ==
This is a two-step process because SOGo and Samba/OpenChange do not
share the same user database. First of all, you need to add your users
to your LDAP database, exactly as documented in the SOGo Installation
guide (http://www.sogo.nu/files/docs/SOGo%20Installation%20Guide.pdf).
Afterwards, you need to replicate those accounts to the Samba database
and populate their OpenChange profile using the 3 following commands:
samba-tool newuser [username] [password]
./setup/openchange_newuser --create [username]
./setup/openchange_newuser --mailbox [username]
It is easier to setup accounts having their username set as password. If
you prefer not, you will need to edit /usr/local/samba/private with
"ldbedit -H". From there, you should replace the occurrences of
"sogo://[username]:[username]@" with "sogo://[username]:[password]@".
Since ldbedit makes use of vi, you can simply issue the following
sequence: ":%s/:[username]@/:[password]@/g". Please note that brackets
are used here as parameter delimiters...
This is temporary and everything will be much more simpler once the
migration towards mapistore_v2 is completed.
== 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 users@sogo.nu mailing list and update
regularly the components mentioned above
* Contact us if you want to sponsor specific features with regard to
Outlook / SOGo compatibility
Thanks,
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Ludovic Marcotte
lmarco...@inverse.ca :: +1.514.755.3630 :: www.inverse.ca
Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
(www.packetfence.org)
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