[Cialug] Exchange Replacement Opportunity

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Zimbra's calendar works everywhere. You can log into it with the web 
client, or can use CalDAV to get at it.

Exchange calendar kind of sucks. That's what we're stuck with now.

On 2014-02-12 at 11:55:22 David Champion wrote:
> IMHO, I'd much rather have the google calendar that works everywhere,
> than the Exchange calendar that only works with Outlook.
> 
> -dc
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <
> 
> daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> > On 2014-02-12 at 10:59:52 L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > > Interesting, .. the only other problem here is that there any
> > > number
> > > of different domains, .. how is Zimbra at handling that?
> > 
> > Actually, it handles it pretty well, if i recall correctly. I think
> > we had 2 domains running, one for testing, one for production. Or
> > maybe we had the test domain on a separate install... i don't
> > actually remember it now since the initial setup of Zimbra was
> > about 5 years ago.> 
> > On 2014-02-12 at 11:26:36 Matt Patterson wrote:
> > > The killer feature of Exchange has nothing to do with email.  Its
> > > the
> > > calendar.   I'm not familiar with Zentyal, but have heard good
> > > things
> > > about Zimbra and that would be a solution that I would look into
> > > if I
> > > was looking to stand up my own or find a cloud provider that did
> > > it
> > > for me.
> > 
> > Zimbra's calendaring works great, except if you have offices full of
> > people that do *lots* of calendar sharing amongst themselves. Then
> > it
> > gets kind of buggy. That's actually the reason we ended up dumping
> > Zimbra; because the upper levels of the administration needed
> > calendaring to work perfectly with complex sharing, using Outlook as
> > the client. For most people who don't have complex sharing setups,
> > or who use the web client, it works perfectly. That said, we got
> > away from Zimbra a couple years ago, so it might work better now. I
> > think you can still download the open version of it and try playing
> > with it for free.
> > 
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> > Daniel A. Ramaley
> > Network Engineer 2
> > 
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Daniel A. Ramaley
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Dial Center 112, Drake University
2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA
Tel: +1 515 271-4540
Fax: +1 515 271-1938
E-mail: daniel.ramaley at drake.edu