My manager's asked me about something that can run on our CentOS boxes that can connect to an (bleah!) Exchange server's calendar. It doesn't look like Lightening can, and from some googling, it appears that Evolution claims to, but.... It's got to be able to set dates, etc.
Can Evolution? Any other suggestions?
Evolution will not work with Exchange newer than 2003. There is a plugin under development that can, but I'm not precisely sure about its status, and in any case, CentOS5 is too old for it; it as a bunch dependencies that are newer than what's provided.
Yes the version of Evolution in CentOS is too old for most things. The evolution-connector package provides Exchange connectivity in CentOS5, however it only works for Exchange 2003 and older.
Newer versions of Evolution also have an evolution-exchange package which can connect with newer versions of Exchange. This is apparently reasonably stable for most setups - it doesn't, however, work well in more complex arrangements involving proxies and so on.
There is another package at alpha/beta level called evolution-ews which looks very promising. Unfortunately it needs Evolution 2.32 or later.
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