[wellylug] Migrating Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 To Linux
Peter Jones
PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Tue Jul 18 10:56:10 NZST 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Harrison [mailto:david.harrison at stress-free.co.nz]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:51 a.m.
> To: Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Migrating Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 To Linux
>
>
> On 17/07/2006, at 2:42 PM, Geraint Jones wrote:
>
> > Users still need to use outlook with all the fancy calendering and
> > stuff - so i need something that will integrate fully with outlook
>
> Have a look at Zimbra (mentioned earlier) and Scalix (http://
> www.scalix.com/).
> I am running Zimbra at the moment and it is stable and relatively
> easy to setup (but a little slow).
> However to gain access to the Outlook (and iSync) connectors
> you must
> purchase either their Standard or Small Business versions:
> http://www.zimbra.com/products/pricing.html
>
> I haven't fully tested Scalix but I looked at it before going with
> Zimbra. Their open source version gives you access to their Outlook
> connectors for free but overall the system is a lot more
> difficult to
> install and maintain.
>
> Most of these packaged email servers assume you will be running a
> standalone server and make a lot of undocumented system wide
> changes. Consequently running Zimbra/Scalix on the same
> system as a Samba/LDAP/
> print server can be very problematic.
>
> I got around this problem on my system by running Xen virtualisation
> (the Zimbra server exists in its own virtual machine).
> There's no noticeable speed difference but it just meant I could let
> Zimbra do as many changes as it wanted without having to worry about
> how it would effect the rest of my services.
> I've written about Zimbra/Xen here (in my case running
> OpenSUSE 10): http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/240/2/
> http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/241/2/
>
> I think your biggest challenge in all this is going to be mail and
> calendar migration but I might be wrong there having never tried.
>
>
> > Users have roaming profiles - these MUST work
>
> Samba3 supports roaming profiles and it works fine.
> I've got it setup in a number of offices and its a lot more reliable
> than native Windows roaming profiles (if you call Windows roaming
> profiles stable).
> Later versions of Samba3 also offer network recycling bin support
> (kind of like Novell Salvage) which can be a lifesaver for those
> accidentally deleted files:
> http://www.stress-free.co.nz/content/view/258/2/
>
> > Printing - how does this work ??? can i still publish printers to
> > AD ??
>
> Printing these days is handled by CUPS usually in partnership with
> Samba.
> Samba/CUPS work pretty much out of the box together, the only real
> challenge is determining the best way to set your printers up.
>
> > Active Directory - Can samba act as an AD PDC ?
>
> Samba4 can act as a PDC but its only for testing and it lacks
> most of
> the functionality required for a true PDC replacement.
> Don't expect a true Samba PDC replacement anytime soon I'm afraid.
>
> > any insights are more than welcome - i will need to start this soon
> > as we are in violation of our m$ licencing and it will cost us
> > about $20k to rectify the issue - $20k i am very reluctant
> to spend
> > if i can help it
>
> OpenSUSE = free
> Xen = free
> Samba = free
> CUPS = free
> Zimbra = US$28 per user per year
>
> You are however going to need to spend more time in the setup but as
> you say you've got $19,999 to play with....
>
>
> David
Ximian Evolution has pretty good outlook capabilities, from what Ive seen.
A novell product so it's going to cost something
http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html
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