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Yesterday when trying the ZEG VM Sogo image for the first time I took some notes that would make it better for first-timers. Keep in mind I approach this from an "Ubuntu user, junior sysadmin, limited or no-time, manager breathing in your neck" point of view. I believe this fits the audience of the ZEG VM image. Here are a few things that didn't work as expected when getting the ZEG VM: - - The ZEG download is not advertised in the homepage. In fact I posted about trying SOGo elsewhere and someone else pointed me to it. This link should be more visible: http://www.sogo.nu/english/downloads/zeg.html - - The file extension the VM once extracted wasn't as documented (why compress it at all ?). Instructions on the download page indicate: VBoxManage import /path/to/ZEG.ovf (it's .ova). - - The default network interface came up as eth1 (as decided by dbus at boot time), yet /etc/network/interfaces file is hardcoded at eth0. - - Changing the default file required knowledge of sudo and vi, as the easier text editor (nano) wasn't installed by default. - - Some requirements or remarkes on the ZEG download page were not clear, not indicating if anything specific should be done or not after importing the ZEG: "The domain you must use for local data is example.com." "requires Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010" - what if I want to test Thunderbird ? Does this mean the server won't work w/o Outlook ? - - The "in-depth documentation" only has a brief LDIF-only example of adding a user, which was cut&past of creating the administrator (which isn't needed in ZEG - or is it?), I am trying this next but will have to restart from scratch. - - "Once the appliance has finished booting, a URL will be shown. Please follow the next instructions from there." There were many options but no clear use-case for a first time test. My use case was: 1- Add two users 2- Configure both in separate Outlook/Thunderbird instances 3- Have them create/share contacts/calendars. Got stuck at #1 which really wasn't expected. I'll probably be filing separate bugs for the above on my own time, but I'd still like to be able to get past #1 above. Cheers, F. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: PGP/Mime available upon request Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8WhLAACgkQfUcTXFrypNWdCACg7wnESu6SzI3FAG1mkNzmbzko HAAAoMLH4/Xt5aAp78IoMoqXUQC9EJjm =JN5S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
