Support of Outlook 2010 ?

[SilentWarrior]

Hi Scalix Team,

Office 2010 is out now.
When do you think it's a realistic time to support OL2010 fully ?

Thanks

[sgreen]

I emailed sales about this and they told me Q1 2011.

[SilentWarrior]

Urgh, thats realy late...

[sgreen]

It is only 6 months, which honestly is not that bad if they are going to support all the new 2010 features.

[sesullivan]

I have clients that need to get new PC's and they are not finding good options for office 2007 - these PC's come with office 2010 pre-installed.

If Scalix is to keep these clients happy and loyal focus on supporting current versions of outlook in a TiMELY manner critical. I understand it may not be easy. That Office 2010 was coming should not have been a surprise to anyone. I am sure that noone wants a repeat of the looooong time it took to support Outlook 2007.

[anybody]

Has someone tried mixing Outlook 2007 with Word/Excel/PowerPoint 2010 ? Does this actually work properly ?

That would be at least a workable interim-solution until Scalix gets their act together (perhaps they are currently busy migrating their internal mail system to Exchange and will continue with development once this is completed)...

Until the end of September it was at least possible to buy Office 2007 and get 2010 as a free Upgrade. This is now no longer possible and all new Office versions bought now HAVE to be the unsupported 2010 version

For me, the lack of both minor and major Scalix Updates is becoming quite a serious problem. User satisfaction is not that great (mostly due to (some) connector bugs and (lots of) Activesync bugs), and explaining to the management why we cannot use Office 2010 is difficult at best...
(and the total silence from Scalix/Xandros makes one wonder if the product has a future at all...)

[da]

Yes, we have recently upgraded all our PCs to Outlook 2007 and Word/Excel/PowerPoint 2010.

So far, so good (apart from Scalix not supporting all functionality of Outlook 2007 yet, e.g. the To-Do Bar, which is not a major problem for our firm). Activesync with iphones is more of a problem.

We are also very concerned about the future, and when the next version will be available. We had expected Activesync 1.0.3 and Scalix 11.4.7 by now, even if 11.5 was delayed.

[implodeme]

I have to say we are planning to move to Windows 7 and Office 2010 this coming 2011, starting Q1. If this is not fully supported by then we will may be forced to migrate to exchange. Cost comparison of Exchange was actually less cost quoted over a 3 year ROI than Scalix. Not migrating would only save me the headache of the user data migration.

[SilentWarrior]

Is there anything news from Scalix about that ?
In a few weeks Q1 will be over and no information from Scalix and no updates since a year.

Is Scalix still alive or is it a dieing Solution ?

[implodeme]

Has someone tried mixing Outlook 2007 with Word/Excel/PowerPoint 2010 ? Does this actually work properly ?

That would be at least a workable interim-solution until Scalix gets their act together (perhaps they are currently busy migrating their internal mail system to Exchange and will continue with development once this is completed)...

Until the end of September it was at least possible to buy Office 2007 and get 2010 as a free Upgrade. This is now no longer possible and all new Office versions bought now HAVE to be the unsupported 2010 version

For me, the lack of both minor and major Scalix Updates is becoming quite a serious problem. User satisfaction is not that great (mostly due to (some) connector bugs and (lots of) Activesync bugs), and explaining to the management why we cannot use Office 2010 is difficult at best...
(and the total silence from Scalix/Xandros makes one wonder if the product has a future at all...)

Yes, I have one user with a full installation of Office 2010 (including Outlook) - I then installed Office 2007 SELECTING ONLY the Outlook tree.
User is on Windows 7 64 bit on Dell hardware.

[anybody]

Yes, I have one user with a full installation of Office 2010 (including Outlook) - I then installed Office 2007 SELECTING ONLY the Outlook tree.

I've since started using this interim solution on quite a number of PCs. You should be aware though that for Outlook 2007's mail merge functionality to work, you also need to have Word 2007 installed.

[fooman82]

Hi Scalix,

We have a scalix server running

100 Premium users
35 Active sync licenses that we have paid for but are not using because Activesync + Scalix is not a robust solution (all mobile users are using imap for mail syncing)
Approx 230standard users

When will the following be released and fixed?

Office / Outlook 2010 MAPI support
Activesync major bugs fixed

[Jeremy James]

35 Active sync licenses that we have paid for but are not using because Activesync + Scalix is not a robust solution (all mobile users are using imap for mail syncing)

the active sync component is the worst piece of software scalix ever released, it chokes on certaincontact entries, it chokes on certain html messages or calendar entries, which leads to the "solution" for me to regularly empty all imap caches, sxmboxexp and sxmboximp contact-folders and restarting tomcat every time a user complains. i do not think that this active sync connector is too high on their list, i presume their biggest efforts are getting outlook 2010 running. but as you know, since there is no official release date for anything you will have to sit and wait ....

[fooman82]

and restarting tomcat every time a user complains

What do you mean every time someone complains, i have a Cron job which restarts tomcat every night, that puts an end to those weekly / fortnightly phone calls complaining "I can't access webmail or something else.... again"

Lately when something fails (Active sync mostly) I can't be bothered to deal with it and just do a "shutdown -r now" not ideal to do on a production machine with 300 users... 20minutes later, problem solved... till next time.

[stefano]

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