Looking to ditch windows at work....
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@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.
No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.
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I made the switch over to Fedora Workstation because of this thread.
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I'd say all your clients move to Chrome OS, you can still have linux in the infrastructure handling stuff.
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@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.
No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.
I have no idea WTF you are talking about, but OWA from Office 365 looks identical on Chrome or Firefox.
As far as OWA from Exchange 2010 goes. Well it is almost 10 years old. Why would you even expect it to look decent in a modern browser? IE 11 is the only semi recent browser it ever worked decent in.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@wrx7m said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I am pretty sure on Exchange 2010, if you don't use IE11, you will be restricted to the lite version of OWA. You should verify that first.
No, in Linux OWA doesn’t work in normal mode with Chrome but in Firefox it works well. OWA on Chrome, Firefox and Safari in Windows and Mac OSX with Exchange 2010 works well.
I have no idea WTF you are talking about, but OWA from Office 365 looks identical on Chrome or Firefox.
As far as OWA from Exchange 2010 goes. Well it is almost 10 years old. Why would you even expect it to look decent in a modern browser? IE 11 is the only semi recent browser it ever worked decent in.
You are misinterpreting the whole post, basically OWA for Exchange 2010 (Exchange 2010 only) does not work well in Chrome in Linux (Only loads the light version) . Firefox loads the full OWA version (Just like in Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge in Windows). Does that make sense.
I never mentioned Office 365 on that post, so I really don't know where you are getting that from. In fact I said the following previously:
@dbeato said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@wls-itguy 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? We currently have Exchange 2010 so the webmail isn't exactly full featured like it is on newer versions.
Push notifications are requirement for me.
Too expensive to upgrade to Exchange 2016 or migrate to O365?
A really big org where I dont have control over this kind of stuff. O365 is on the roadmap, but probably another year or so away.
If you are moving to Office 365 in a year then Linux will work with the OWA interface and that should be sufficient.
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@dbeato You generalized "Linux" which is wrong. In a reply, yes, but without specific context in your post.
I specifically responded to the Exchange 2010 bit.
Please read everything before getting pissy.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@dbeato You generalized "Linux" which is wrong. In a reply, yes, but without specific context in your post.
I specifically responded to the Exchange 2010 bit.
Please read everything before getting pissy.
Okay, if I generalized "Linux" that might not be great but the point I was making is that Exchange 2010 can work in Firefox in a Linux OS properly. I don't expect Exchange 2010 to look decent but I was just trying to prove the point.
If I am getting pissy for you that's very strange because I am not.
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Wanna know something really cool?
Many of you know I have taken on the initiative to get 100% away from Windows at work on my company system. I have come across many challenges and have been able to overcome everything.
Yesterday my team lead approached me and said he really liked what I did with Fedora. He believes that the rest of IT security team should no longer use Windows. It is a goal we are going to work towards. He recommended that I met with our Linux team and we are going to look at using Red Hat satellite to PXE boot Fedora images to replace Windows in various areas!
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@irj That is really cool and good luck with it. I enjoy almost everything I do on Linux more than windows.
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I used Evolution on my box and this works very well. But i stopped using it in favour of OWA once we were on office365. Evolution still works on office365, but the owa interface (chromium and firefox alike) works very well.
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Oh and guess what I am the guy on my team going to Microsoft Ignite. Lol
I get to be involved in the O365 process from on prem. I am pretty excited about it.
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@ignaceq said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I used Evolution on my box and this works very well. But i stopped using it in favour of OWA once we were on office365. Evolution still works on office365, but the owa interface (chromium and firefox alike) works very well.
I had to go through a million settings to get it the way I wanted it, but now I am liking it ok. Definitely not as good as Outlook or OWA, but usable.
I also found that you cannot trust Evolution to listen for exchange updates. I found it was spotty and unreliable. I set it to check with server every minute instead. I know that isn't ideal, but I can't miss stuff for 20 minutes.
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@irj Strange, I don't have a problem getting exchange updates. I couldn't say why you are though. Just strange
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@jmoore said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@irj Strange, I don't have a problem getting exchange updates. I couldn't say why you are though. Just strange
It happened to me twice where I missed email for about 10 minutes. Then I could no longer trust it.
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@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@ignaceq said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I used Evolution on my box and this works very well. But i stopped using it in favour of OWA once we were on office365. Evolution still works on office365, but the owa interface (chromium and firefox alike) works very well.
I had to go through a million settings to get it the way I wanted it, but now I am liking it ok. Definitely not as good as Outlook or OWA, but usable.
I also found that you cannot trust Evolution to listen for exchange updates. I found it was spotty and unreliable. I set it to check with server every minute instead. I know that isn't ideal, but I can't miss stuff for 20 minutes.
Do you also have Listen for server change notifications checked too?
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@black3dynamite said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@irj said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
@ignaceq said in Looking to ditch windows at work....:
I used Evolution on my box and this works very well. But i stopped using it in favour of OWA once we were on office365. Evolution still works on office365, but the owa interface (chromium and firefox alike) works very well.
I had to go through a million settings to get it the way I wanted it, but now I am liking it ok. Definitely not as good as Outlook or OWA, but usable.
I also found that you cannot trust Evolution to listen for exchange updates. I found it was spotty and unreliable. I set it to check with server every minute instead. I know that isn't ideal, but I can't miss stuff for 20 minutes.
Do you also have Listen for server change notifications checked too?
I tried just checking that originally .
