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  • zuhaib 11:21 pm on April 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Exchange, Lightning, Linkedin, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Mozilla, Thunderbird, xdata   

    Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Linux? Thunderbird (and xdata-provider) to the rescue! 

    As much as open source guys like myself love to bash on MS, there is just something they do right. And if its not right, sometimes they are just the only guys in town. And one of those things in Microsoft Exchange. No one has yet been able to replicate the full experience of Outlook + Exchange in terms of calendaring and E-Mail, especially if your looking for a non-cloud solution. Hell even many Web 2.0 companies who are ready to accept non-Microsoft products have a hard time walking away from Exchange. But in that case you might run in to a case you might have a Exchange Server but a Client using Linux, and that is what I ran in to helping [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/) move to Exchange 2010. So what are you to do? Well we got a fix for you.

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    • Markus Swanepoel 11:10 am on January 12, 2011 Permalink

      Also, Here is the setup guide for Thunderbird on linux and Exchange 07/10. Hope this helps
      http://www.markuss.co.cc/2011/01/complete-how-to-setup-thunderbird-31x.html

    • Brendan White 8:30 am on January 19, 2011 Permalink

      We have tried (and tried and tried) to get Thunderbird connecting to Exchange 2010 with xdata. No luck with the calendaring and task synchronisation. Is there any connector that works with exchange 2010?

    • zuhaib 6:00 pm on January 19, 2011 Permalink

      Brendan and other, it looks like the project has now been picked up by others and you can find an updated version here: http://gitorious.org/lightning-exchange-provider/pages/Home. I will go ahead and post an update to the blog in a bit.

    • Ron 4:46 am on February 20, 2011 Permalink

      Hi all!
      Just a thought but it might be helpfull (for me it is) if people would post the exchange 2010 requirements for their solution to work, or at least the used protocols. Some setups do not have all protocols enabled like IMAP or pop3.
      I myself am looking for a client that uses OWA .
      Any cellphone available or even my old pocketpc can use OWA but for linux there seems to be no client available..

    • Markus 9:53 pm on February 23, 2011 Permalink

      I also had no luck with exchange and Thunderbird, calendar sync worked, but could not write any events, but with the latest Thunderbird and Exchange data provider plugins, everything works 100%, just takes some time for the initial configuration, see more here:

      http://tinyurl.com/6cf5mx8

  • zuhaib 1:03 am on October 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: .Net, iFolder, , Linux, MONO, Novell, , , User Guide   

    The joys of iFolder, and getting a basic user guide 

    If your a cloud type of person, whatever that means, meaning you like to put stuff online and share then you likely have been using [Dropbox](http://www.dropbox.com) like I do. Its a free/paid service that lets you store up to 2GB free (and more if you pay) online. Thats not new, but what it also does it sync with local folders, and allows for you to collaborate on those folders and keep tracks of who is editing what. So its great way to share files with friends that you cant normally do with E-Mail.
    But What if you dont trust keeping your super secret files on some startups server? What if you need something with more control or more size and have sever power to throw at it. Then [iFolder](http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder) is for you! But with all OSS stuff their is no great end user – user guide around (as in the thing for your customer), but read on as I think I have the solution.

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