[OT] Open Source Outlook/calendar Alternative?

[William Muriithi]

Steven,

2009/7/10 Stephen W. Clarke <stephenc-wtWqQT8woy8 at public.gmane.org>

> I am once again in discussions about moving away from MS Office and
> implementing OpenOffice site wide. However, one question that has recently
> come up is what will replace the Outlook calendar? We don't use the
> exchange server for email so there is no real tie to Outlook other than a
> few users who really like the calendar.
>
> If I install Thunderbird and Sunbird can I just import the Outlook
> calendar? Or is there a better solution.
>

Try a recent version of evolution and configure it to connect to exchange
through exchange connector also known as MAPI. I have successfully managed
to set up with all the feature provided by outlook. That was with the
evolution MUA that came with fedora 11

There has been improvement recently after  openchange managed to reverse
engineer MAPI.  If you are interested, you can read more about it from the
links below.

http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=72

http://www.openchange.org/images/Conferences/sambaxp_2008.pdf

I am assuming the site is currently using exchange. And since all users are
not going to go along in the conversion, the above can allow you to
gradually phase in open office for those who will co-operate

Anyway, hopes that helps

William

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> Stephen
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