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

Reading Time: 7 minutes 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 information. Getting to know your current environment is key if you want to change it. If you migrate from one version of a product to

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

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 good planning, but it is even more important when migrating from a third party solution that isn't supported by any available migration tool like Quest.

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My company is migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013!

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 Conference and some outside that event asked my why we were using Zarafa and how that works. Especially when they hear we also deployed Lync

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Thoughts on “VMware Zimbra vs. Microsoft Exchange”

Reading Time: 12 minutes 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 better multi-tenant solution for ISPs. The author does this by comparing both products in a feature comparison. These reviews are helpful in order for companies

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