Re: [Evolution] Exchange Server 2008

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk>]

> ________________________________
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>
> To: Patryk Benderz esp pl 
> Cc: evolution-list gnome org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:30
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Exchange Server 2008
>
>
> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 09:47 +0200, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> > Dnia 2013-08-13, wto o godzinie 23:57 +0100, Tom Davies pisze:
> > > Hi :)
> > > What should i install in order to get Exchange communicating with Evo?
> > evolution-ews
> >
> > >    Do i install the Ews things first
> > not first, you install only EWS
>
> If any of the Evolution background processes have started before you
> install the EWS package, they will need to be restarted. Since
> gnome-shell tends to load evolution-calendar-factory as soon as you log
> in to GNOME, it's fairly much guaranteed that installing EWS and then
> trying to use it immediately, under GNOME, is going to fail.
>
> I think there was a bug for this once, but I don't recall it now.
>
> > > Does the wrong order damage anything, such as my ability to try again
> > > and get the order right 2nd time.  
> > I do not think so. The only drawback is that it seems impossible to
> > configure evolution to connect to Exchange which is hidden behind
> > microsoft's proxy server, with RPC over HTTP "technology". Your Exchange
> > needs to have public IP address or name.
>
> Is there a bug for this?
>
> -- 
> dwmw2


Hi :)
Ubuntu uses Unity by default and i'm one of those that stuck with that. 
 It seems to use Gnome (and Gtk?) stuff under that at the moment so i 
still use a lot of Gnome versions of things, i think.  I'm not 100% sure
 but i think Evo also gets installed by default even though the default 
emailer is Thunderbird at the moment

So, i guess first is to find and uninstall any existing versions of Evo 
as they are likely to be old in Ubuntu normal repos.  That should be 
pretty easy.  i know i can do this in Synaptic very easily.  

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)