Looking to ditch windows at work....

[EddieJennings]

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Is there any legitimate contenders for Outlook on Linux?

Same as on any platform, the best alternative to Outlook is "anything but Outlook."

In all seriousness, what does Outlook do that you want to replicate? Outlook does a lot, and is different for every person. For normal users, Outlook doesn't do anything special that isn't covered by OWA, Thunderbird, MailSpring, etc.

I know this is (actually a Word feature) available in Outlook that seemed to be a killer feature for the users I once supported.

https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/1638-outlook-quick-parts-edit.html

[black3dynamite]

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[Emad R]

@obsolesce said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@emad-r How do the users like LXQT? Did they come from Windows?

Well they rarely use LXQT, and yh they come from Win 7. and they usually utilize the chrome session that pops up after machine boots up.

I think they think its minimal and limited, but who gives a shit what they think, it is very secure it auto logins on standard user account with chrome, and I manage them via saltstack and push stuff like" dnf install chrome " they did notice that the battery life becomes huge and very long, and it is lighter.

But they would love to MS office on it they keep requesting this, and like Fuck no the reason it is thin client is to have all the patient data stored on the system, once you have office on it, the next thing is patient data being transfered via WhatsApp. And before you say LibreOffice it does not play nice with the format of MS Office, if only there is way to limit MS office saved extension files to something open instead of default prison format.

What do you know, there is :
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/change-the-default-file-format-for-saving-workbooks-16318414-f050-40b8-8b17-23ff5f381fb5

[scottalanmiller]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Is there any legitimate contenders for Outlook on Linux?

Same as on any platform, the best alternative to Outlook is "anything but Outlook."

In all seriousness, what does Outlook do that you want to replicate? Outlook does a lot, and is different for every person. For normal users, Outlook doesn't do anything special that isn't covered by OWA, Thunderbird, MailSpring, etc.

I guess I am not sure how Exchange objects such as resource rooms will work in something like Evolution. Everyone here uses Outlook calendar for scheduling. I , like many people out there, am not using the Outlook to it's fullest extent. It is essentially email and a calendar.

Worst case, Outlook runs with Wine.

[stacksofplates]

I use Evolution. If you are using GNOME you can connect your exchange account into your "Online Accounts" and then notifications show up on the desktop.

[stacksofplates]

[jmoore]

Evolution and others will pull email from other accounts. No need to do a full change and spend a lot of money or even time getting something else set up. Stacksofplates nailed it here. This works great.

[IRJ]

So I installed Evolution, but do not see Exchange listed as an option....

[stacksofplates]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

So I installed Evolution, but do not see Exchange listed as an option....

Not at work to check but I think I'd you add it through the online accounts it auto adds it for you.

[IRJ]

I dont see any option...

[jmoore]

Think i did New...Mail Account...Next...[filled out info]...next...[under server type select exchange]...

[black3dynamite]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

So I installed Evolution, but do not see Exchange listed as an option....

In the Identity section, Look up mail server details based on the entered e-mail address should be checked.
And then after it done searching, under Server Type: Exchange Web Services should be one of the choices.

[TonyKnobel]

@irj It's an add-on to Evolution

[jmoore]

@tonyknobel This is a new fedora vm and I didn't have to add it. So maybe in older versions it was an add-on maybe?

[TonyKnobel]

@jmoore Could be. Mine started as 27, and I upgraded it to 28.

[IRJ]

Yeah it appears to be a separate install according to documentation:

Microsoft Exchange: Available only if you have installed the Connector for Microsoft* Exchange. It allows you to connect to a Microsoft Exchange 2000 or 2003 server, which stores e-mail, calendar, and contact information on the server. For configuration instructions, see Remote Configuration Options.

[Obsolesce]

On my Fedora box, I use Thunderbird and TbSync.

It works well.

[JaredBusch]

@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

Yeah it appears to be a separate install according to documentation:

Microsoft Exchange: Available only if you have installed the Connector for Microsoft* Exchange. It allows you to connect to a Microsoft Exchange 2000 or 2003 server, which stores e-mail, calendar, and contact information on the server. For configuration instructions, see Remote Configuration Options.

So I just added this because of this thread.
On Fedora 28 + Cinnamon

dnf install evolution evolution-ews

[JaredBusch]

Checking the Look up box here results in it selecting IMAP, but EWS is then available.

[IRJ]

@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:

dnf install evolution evolution-ews

That worked for me as well! Thanks I spent a half hour trying to figure it out!