[K12OSN] exchange connector?

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Oh, you don't have to install the the entire Ximian Desktop for this to 
work.  Not at all!  All you need is the Red Carpet program loader, and 
GNOME 2.0+ on your system.  The Red Carpet program loader is maybe a few 
MB--quite small.  And the reason to use Red Carpet for the Exchange 
Connector is to avoid exactly those "strange dependencies" you mention 
below.

--TP

Burroughs, Henry wrote:

>I've been using the exchange connector for a few weeks now... has made moving some faculty members from outlook to the new server easy (and keeps me from having to run outlook via Crossover).
>
>I found the rpms from ximian's site to have some strange dependencies.  I personally didn't want to install the entire Ximian dist (or a chunk) to make the connector to work.  There is are some fc2 rolled connector rpms floating about, and I found one awhile back.
>
>Henry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	"Terrell Prudé, Jr." [mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com]
>Sent:	Wed 10/13/2004 8:58 PM
>To:	Support list for opensource software in schools.
>Cc:	
>Subject:	Re: [K12OSN] exchange connector?
>Yup, been using the Exchange Connector now for the last year and a half 
>(we're a "Microsoft shop").  That means that, back then, yup, I paid the 
>$59 or $69 for it.  It allowed me to switch to GNU/Linux, so I felt that 
>it was worth it.
>
>I haven't tried it on Fedora Core Anything yet, but I've used it on Red 
>Hat Linux 7.3 and K12LTSP 3.1.2 (RHL 9), both before and after it went 
>GPL.  Today, I use it with SuSE Linux 9.1.  I imagine that it would 
>operate the same way under FC1 or FC2.
>
>The easiest way that I've discovered to install the Exchange Connector 
>is to use the Ximian/Novell "Red Carpet" tool.  Matter of fact, it's how 
>I've done it every time, and it's the way that Ximian/Novell recommends 
>that you do the Connector install.
>
>--TP
>
>Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Has anyone used the evolution exchange connector that Novell recently
>>released under the GPL?  Is there a packaged version that will drop
>>into Fedora/k12ltsp?  So far the only distribution I've seen that
>>includes it is the first beta of RHEL 4.1.
>>
>>---
>> Les Mikesell
>>  les at futuresource.com
>>
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