Looking to ditch windows at work....

[JaredBusch]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Yeah it appears to be a separate install according to documentation:

Microsoft Exchange: Available only if you have installed the Connector for Microsoft* Exchange. It allows you to connect to a Microsoft Exchange 2000 or 2003 server, which stores e-mail, calendar, and contact information on the server. For configuration instructions, see Remote Configuration Options.

So I just added this because of this thread.
On Fedora 28 + Cinnamon

dnf install evolution evolution-ews

[JaredBusch]

Checking the Look up box here results in it selecting IMAP, but EWS is then available.

[IRJ]

@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

dnf install evolution evolution-ews

That worked for me as well! Thanks I spent a half hour trying to figure it out!

[JaredBusch]

Now to figure out the URL, because I do not have anything setup on our domain (we use O365)

[JaredBusch]

University of Wisconsin-Madison was the first hit on Google..
https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=2

[JaredBusch]

Once you click Fetch URL, it auto populate the OAB and then you can click the Check supported types in the Authentication.

[JaredBusch]

Wow.. going to have to take some time to look at settings and stuff..

Do not like the expanded by default thread view.. I like thread view, just not expanded.. That is silly.

And the Defualt dark theme form Cinnamon makes this a little hard to read. IMO.

[Obsolesce]

Here's what you get in Thunderbird wiht TbSync (O365:

Thunderbird:

Thunderbird footer: (click to open TbSync Account Manager)

TbSync Account Manager:

Bad color scheme is because of Cinnamon.

[JaredBusch]

Dislike Thunderbird.

[Obsolesce]

@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Dislike Thunderbird.

Looks better, but...

I like having tabs. If Evolution can do tabs, i'd use that instead.

Does that addon for Evolution also do contacts, calendars, and tasks?

[black3dynamite]

@obsolesce I can see my tasks, calendar items and contacts (including global address list).

[Obsolesce]

Can you show a screenshot of calendar and task view? If they are decent, maybe I'll give Evolution a go.

I just got used to tabs in web browsers and in Thunderbird... so not sure if I'll liek anything else.

[black3dynamite]

Calendar

Tasks

[stacksofplates]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

I dont see any option...

Sorry had an interview this afternoon so I've been away. I meant the GNOME online accounts not the evolution ones.

[wrx7m]

I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.

[dbeato]

@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.

No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.

[IRJ]

I made the switch over to Fedora Workstation because of this thread.

[krisleslie]

I'd say all your clients move to Chrome OS, you can still have linux in the infrastructure handling stuff.

[JaredBusch]

@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.

No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.

I have no idea WTF you are talking about, but OWA from Office 365 looks identical on Chrome or Firefox.

As far as OWA from Exchange 2010 goes. Well it is almost 10 years old. Why would you even expect it to look decent in a modern browser? IE 11 is the only semi recent browser it ever worked decent in.

[dbeato]

@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.

No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.

I have no idea WTF you are talking about, but OWA from Office 365 looks identical on Chrome or Firefox.

As far as OWA from Exchange 2010 goes. Well it is almost 10 years old. Why would you even expect it to look decent in a modern browser? IE 11 is the only semi recent browser it ever worked decent in.

You are misinterpreting the whole post, basically OWA for Exchange 2010 (Exchange 2010 only) does not work well in Chrome in Linux (Only loads the light version) . Firefox loads the full OWA version (Just like in Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge in Windows). Does that make sense.

I never mentioned Office 365 on that post, so I really don't know where you are getting that from. In fact I said the following previously:

@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@wls-itguy said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Is there any legitimate contenders for Outlook on Linux? We currently have Exchange 2010 so the webmail isn't exactly full featured like it is on newer versions.

Push notifications are requirement for me.

Too expensive to upgrade to Exchange 2016 or migrate to O365?

A really big org where I dont have control over this kind of stuff. O365 is on the roadmap, but probably another year or so away.

If you are moving to Office 365 in a year then Linux will work with the OWA interface and that should be sufficient.