From open source groupware solution Zarafa to Exchange: Part 2, Active Directory

See also Part 1: A New Beginning When using Zarafa there are several possible directory services you can use for authentication. I will restrict this post to situations relevant to Active Directory (AD) integration. Even if you did not use Active Directory (or Zarafa for that matter) previously, I believe this post still contains valuable … Continue reading "From open source groupware solution Zarafa to Exchange: Part 2, Active Directory"

From open source groupware solution Zarafa to Exchange: Part 1, A New Beginning

This blog series will describe my experiences and lessons learned from migrating the Zarafa Groupware solution to Microsoft Exchange, specifically Exchange Server 2013. I've done this twice now and although some things are quite obvious, there are some gotchas and it might be a daunting endeavor. A normal transition from Exchange to Exchange already requires … Continue reading "From open source groupware solution Zarafa to Exchange: Part 1, A New Beginning"

My company is migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013!

I already knew this for several weeks, but wasn’t allowed to discuss this publicly yet. But as some know the company I work for, OGD ict-diensten, is using Zarafa as its groupware solution and recently decided to migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2013! Why Zarafa? A lot of the Exchange experts I met during the Microsoft Exchange … Continue reading "My company is migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013!"

Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs. Microsoft Exchange”

This is a blog post co-authored with Michel de Rooij, his (mirror) post can be found here. In a blog post by Christopher Wells, alias vSamurai, the author positions VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS 7.x) as an enterprise-ready drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments of all sizes. He also suggests Zimbra is a … Continue reading "Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs. Microsoft Exchange”"