On 3/12/2016 8:36 AM, Jesús García Sáez wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Johannes Faber
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
"rough edges" is a real underestimating term ;)
Here is what came out after a long evaluation and polishing the
rough edges.
when or with which version was your evaluation?
What was positive:
- It is possible to share AD with a real Windows DC, as long it is
2008 and Samba is a DC (making it everything a bit more
complicated). Member server does not work.
- Autodiscover does work with Outlook and different DNs than the
defaults for users, if you change the hard coded DNs in the python
autodiscover scripts.
- Simple addressbook and calendar stuff for Outlook works.
- Out of office function for Outlook works (but only for external
contacts, as there is no support in SOGo for internal contacts).
What was negative:
- Multiple personal addressbook in Outlook do not work properly.
Works for me. And even sharing works now too.
- If automatic email completion does not work, start from scratch
for the user.
I guess maybe you have to open the address book before email
completion works, I'm not sure never dig into that because I've never
seen the issue.
- Outlook stops syncing out of nowhere.
This was the main reason in the past, now really unlikely to happen.
- Outlook crashs for no apparent reason. If it crashs directly
after launch, start from scratch for the user.
Known bug in the past (related with custom views on folders), now it
shouldn't happen.
- Outlook in a non-english language seems even more unstable.
win+r, outlook /resetfoldernames and good to go. Known issues in the
past with non-ascii characters (specially with cyrillic languages),
all fixed by now.
- Automatic Inbox notification does not work (even after
self-compiling and installing the dovecot plugin. The
documentation here is sparse).
Notifications work, doc about how to install and configure it
https://github.com/blaxter/openchange/blob/master/mapiproxy/services/plugins/dovecot/README.md
- You are never sure, that everthing from Outlook is in sync with
the server.
Actually you can. If there is some problem you could check the Sync
Issues folder, and also you could, on any folder, right click,
properties and go to synchronization tab (where you can see items on
server and downloaded items, they should be the same)
- Some Outlook problems where only solvable by clearing the SOGo
cache or even worse by recreating the user on the server site. A
new Outlook profile was in most cases not enough.
Again this was very common in the past (even there is a script to do
this securely) but now it should be the exception.
- Migration from existing user data triggered some obscure behaviour.
Night is dark and full of terrors
- SOGo develops the backend and Zentyal develops OpenChange.
That was right but nowadays I'm not sure about the latter. So
basically development is stalled.
So if you can go with Outlook 2013 and EAS. Avoid OpenChange or
plan a long evaluation phase to catch all problems.
I agree with the conclusion though (mostly because of the last point).
Regards,
Johannes
Johannes:
It would be better if you would post steps to reproduce your bugs.
It's too easy to say, "this feature is giving a bug," without showing
step by step how that bug can be reproduced by anyone so the dev could
reproduce it troubleshoot it and fix the code.
Jesus:
Same, but you should post steps to reproduce the successful scenarios
that make the software work as you described above.
It's too easy to say, "it works for me" without showing step by step how
you got it to work.
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