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OGo & M$-Outlook
- ZideOne
ZideOne is the successor to ZideLook; ZideOne is a commercial plugin to Microsoft Outlook that connects to GroupDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV servers. OpenGroupware supports GroupDAV and has partial CalDAV support.
- ZideLook
ZideLook is the commercial client/server solution sold by Skyrix to connect Microsoft Outlook to OpenGroupware.
NOTE:I have personally used the ZideLook plugin in Outlook 2000 and XP. It worked in both, although both installation and operation seemed smoother and more stable in Outlook XP than in Outlook 2000.
- RemoteCalendars
RemoteCalendars is .NET plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2003 that enables you to use iCalendar files. Since ZideStore provides calendar information via HTTP in iCalendar format you should be able to view OpenGroupware calendar information in Outlook using RemoteCalendars. However this does inherit the vast limitations of the iCalendar format and using a calendar view model instead of an event view.
NOTE: I have not tested RemoteCalendars with Outlook as the limitations of iCalendar render this disinteresting to me. But if you can tried this solution with OGo please let me know and I'll make note of your success/failure.
- Open Connector (also known as "Otlkcon")
Open Connector is a project to develope a true Open Source MAPI provider and transport. That is an extremely ambitious goal; maybe you need to know something about MAPI & Outlook internals to understand why, if you don't, just trust me. It should be noted that this project has been around since November of 2002. But as of now [ 2006-08-29 ] they appear to have a snapshot that claims to work with most CalDAV servers. This is really alpha/beta, that in conjunction with the fact that ZideStore's CalDAV implementation is not complete (lack of clients)..... you get the idea.
NOTE: If you try out Otlkcon please let me know how it goes. And of course open bugs in OpenGroupware's Bugzilla if you discover missing functionality in ZideStore.
- Dawanlook
Dawanlook I've seen some reports that this works but the documentation on the website is scant and for whatever reason neither the author nor any user has ever mentioned this on any of the official OpenGroupware lists.... so I haven't bothered to test it. It appears to be some kind of syncronization utility.
- Brutus
Brutus tends to come up in lots of conversations about integrating Outlook with Open Source projects. But that is NOT what Brutus is; Brutus is the exact oposite. With Brutus you can make MAPI calls (to an Exchange server) via CORBA. So Brutus really plays no role in integrating Outlook with an OpenGroupware server - Outlook is already a MAPI client
Created by
whitemice
Last modified
2009-02-20 01:29 PM
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