On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:10 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:04 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> >>Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote:
> >>>Ladies and Gents,
> >>>   Previously on the list, I was forwarded to a Novell Groupwise Client. 
> >>> I am not so sure thats what I need.  All I need is a good Linux client
> >>> to connect to my exchange server to synch up calendar, contacts.
> >>
> >>Evolution has an add-on to connect to an Exchange server.  Not free,
> >>though.
> >
> > I have a copy of that.  You have to run it at the server level, IIRC.  It
> > does not really allow a client to connect directly to Exchange, acts more
> > like an interface between Evolution and the Exchange Server.  It also
> > requires permissions, again IIRC, so you would have to have administrator
> > approval before being able to run it.
> >
> > Otherwise, I would be.
>
> I haven't used it, so you may be right.  My reading of the blurb about
> it on the Ximian site, though, is that it works using Outlook Web
> Access.  If your Exchange is already set up for that, then the Evolution
> connector *should* work without further server configuration.  But as I
> said, I never used it, so I very well could be misinterpreting what they
> are saying.  I think they have a free trial period, so if I get
> motivated enough, I'll download it and see if I can get it to work,
> since my employer does have OWA already set up.

We do have web access set up by I am pretty sure that the calendaring function 
does not work through that with non MS-aware clients (meaning active x 
components, etc.)  I could be wrong but my reading of the docs all say that 
you have to integrate the connection at the server level.

-- 
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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