On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Johannes Faber <johan...@fundament.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > "rough edges" is a real underestimating term ;) > > Here is what came out after a long evaluation and polishing the rough > edges. > when or with which version was your evaluation? > > What was positive: > > - It is possible to share AD with a real Windows DC, as long it is 2008 > and Samba is a DC (making it everything a bit more complicated). Member > server does not work. > - Autodiscover does work with Outlook and different DNs than the defaults > for users, if you change the hard coded DNs in the python autodiscover > scripts. > - Simple addressbook and calendar stuff for Outlook works. > - Out of office function for Outlook works (but only for external > contacts, as there is no support in SOGo for internal contacts). > > What was negative: > > - Multiple personal addressbook in Outlook do not work properly. > Works for me. And even sharing works now too. > - If automatic email completion does not work, start from scratch for the > user. > I guess maybe you have to open the address book before email completion works, I'm not sure never dig into that because I've never seen the issue. > - Outlook stops syncing out of nowhere. > This was the main reason in the past, now really unlikely to happen. > - Outlook crashs for no apparent reason. If it crashs directly after > launch, start from scratch for the user. > Known bug in the past (related with custom views on folders), now it shouldn't happen. > - Outlook in a non-english language seems even more unstable. > win+r, outlook /resetfoldernames and good to go. Known issues in the past with non-ascii characters (specially with cyrillic languages), all fixed by now. > - Automatic Inbox notification does not work (even after self-compiling > and installing the dovecot plugin. The documentation here is sparse). > Notifications work, doc about how to install and configure it https://github.com/blaxter/openchange/blob/master/mapiproxy/services/plugins/dovecot/README.md > - You are never sure, that everthing from Outlook is in sync with the > server. > Actually you can. If there is some problem you could check the Sync Issues folder, and also you could, on any folder, right click, properties and go to synchronization tab (where you can see items on server and downloaded items, they should be the same) > - Some Outlook problems where only solvable by clearing the SOGo cache or > even worse by recreating the user on the server site. A new Outlook profile > was in most cases not enough. > Again this was very common in the past (even there is a script to do this securely) but now it should be the exception. > - Migration from existing user data triggered some obscure behaviour. > Night is dark and full of terrors > - SOGo develops the backend and Zentyal develops OpenChange. > That was right but nowadays I'm not sure about the latter. So basically development is stalled. > > So if you can go with Outlook 2013 and EAS. Avoid OpenChange or plan a > long evaluation phase to catch all problems. > I agree with the conclusion though (mostly because of the last point). > > Regards, > > Johannes > -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
