[wellylug] Migrating Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 To Linux

[Daniel Pittman]

"Phillip Hutchings" <sitharus at sitharus.com> writes:

I have a reasonable amount of experience with Bynari, including
production use.

>>  Users still need to use outlook with all the fancy calendering and stuff -
>> so i need something that will integrate fully with outlook
>
> Look at http://www.bynari.net/index.php?id=7, never used it myself,
> but it seems to integrated with several MTAs.

Bynari bundle Postfix into the Insight Server, and you can't really
"roll your own".  Likewise their Cyrus IMAP, etc, systems are bundled
and can't really be replaced easily on the system.

That includes Apache, since they use that for the management interface
to the server and their own web client.


It does basically work, and the Outlook component is decent.  It has had
some bugs in the past, but no show-stopper issues.

The web interface is very basic, though.

[...]

>>  Printing - how does this work ??? can i still publish printers to AD ??
>
> You can certainly share printers to Windows, but I've never had a
> great result from it. That's probably due to my lack of fixing it
> though.

CUPS and Samba work well together, and can do a lot toward printing.

>>  Active Directory - Can samba act as an AD PDC ?
>
> With the help of an LDAP server, yes.

With the most recent Samba releases, basically.  It can be quite a
learning curve, though.

Bynari does not bundle any AD or Samba functionality, and it can be
something of a pain to get them working together.  Don't expect Bynari
to provide anything but an *Exchange* replacement.


You might also look to the Zimbra(.com) package, which looks fairly
good.

Regards,
        Daniel
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