May 2, 2009

Fun with Zimbra!

Zimbra Preferences

Earlier last month, Zimbra release a beta version of their new Collaberation Suite. This is now version 6 of the increasing popular rival to Microsoft’s Exchange.

Last year, I setup the open source flavour of version 5 with Samba. Following some helpful How2Forge instructions, I was able to setup an old box as a Domain Contoller and Communications Server. With some more jiggery pokery, I was also able to add Openfire to the mix and replace Zimbra’s own IM service.

Play around with a hosted demo account on Zimbra’s website and see for yourself.

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Tags: Beta Version, Communications Server, Contoller, Demo Account, Domain Server, Flavour, Fun, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Open Source, Rival, Samba, Version 6, Zimbra

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Jon

Hi, nice blog,

wondering about ‘With some more jiggery pokery, I was also able to add Openfire to the mix and replace Zimbra’s own IM service.’
I’ve been thinking about this for years – any pointers ? I dont need anything specific – but did you just disable the zimbra im service and then install openfire on the same box – of have you managed to get the im client to look external to the zimbra server ?

thanks,
Jon

Hi, nice blog,

wondering about 'With some more jiggery pokery, I was also able to add Openfire to the mix and replace Zimbra’s own IM service.'
I've been thinking about this for years – any pointers ? I dont need anything specific – but did you just disable the zimbra im service and then install openfire on the same box – of have you managed to get the im client to look external to the zimbra server ?

thanks,
JimDHunt

Hi Jon,nnFrom what I remember, It’s pretty straight forward. Zimbra’s IM service is disabled by default, (if you activated it in the Admin website, you’ll need to disable it). You can either run Openfire on a seperate server or, as I did, use Zimbra’s own MySQL server to hold openfire’s data and it’ll still happily authenticate against Zimbra’s own LDAP server. nnHave fun.nnJim
http://www.tawnymoyle.net JimDHunt

Hi Jon,

From what I remember, It’s pretty straight forward. Zimbra’s IM service is disabled by default, (if you activated it in the Admin website, you’ll need to disable it). You can either run Openfire on a seperate server or, as I did, use Zimbra’s own MySQL server to hold openfire’s data and it’ll still happily authenticate against Zimbra’s own LDAP server.

Have fun.

Jim
http://twitter.com/JimDHunt Jim Hunt

Hi Jon,

From what I remember, It's pretty straight forward. Zimbra's IM service is disabled by default, (if you activated it in the Admin website, you'll need to disable it). You can either run Openfire on a seperate server or, as I did, use Zimbra's own MySQL server to hold openfire's data and it'll still happily authenticate against Zimbra's own LDAP server.

Have fun.

Jim

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