[Sussex] Syncing calendars between Exchange and Open Standards

[Steve Williams]

Mark,

For this solution you could look at Open Exchange with the OXLook connector.

I apologize for not being in touch earlier about my business. I have had an injury to my left shoulder for which I have just had surgery. Perhaps we could catch up at the next Moot.

On a different note, I have been offered a dual Xeon 2U rackmount server with MS Server 2k3 and Exchange Server. Any use to you?

Steve Williams.

-----Original Message-----
    From: "Mark Harrison (Groups)"<mph at ascentium.co.uk>
    Sent: 15/08/05 15:15:56
    To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties"<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
    Subject: [Sussex] Syncing calendars between Exchange and Open Standards
    
    Well, at least syncing free/busy info...
    
    I have a large client, whose email is MS Exchange.
    
    We've put a proposal to them that they migrate some of their users
    (about 10,000) to an Open email solution (POP3 / IMAP / SMTP / iCAL)
    backend.
    
    This will allow them to save the migration costs to E2k3 for that part
    of their estate, while NOT having to go through the major hassle of
    rolling out a new desktop across several hundred locations. (They can
    manage the hassle of rolling out a new config for their existing Outlook
    client fine.)
    
    The issue we're up against is that the people on the MS system need to
    book meetings with the people who'd be on the new system, which means
    seeing free-busy info shared across the two.
    
    They are, like many large organisations, not keen to write their own
    code, but are looking for some off-the-shelf code to do this.
    
    I should stress that they are NOT looking for a consultancy to write
    this for them, but instead for an existing software application that
    their existing teams can deploy.
    
    Anyone got any ideas?
    
    Mark
    
    
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