GroupOffice Integration

[feratechinc]

Has anybody tried using GroupOffice?
http://www.group-office.com/

It has been successfully integrated with ISPConfig since it is mostly just Apache driven. It should be easy to install in a Zentyal system.

Here is a demo to check out:
http://demo.group-office.eu/
username: demo
password: demo

[Sam Graf]

At the moment the demo appears to get stuck in a loop while trying to load ...

[feratechinc]

Ohh you probably signed on when they were reloading their database. I just checked it and it works. It's worthwhile to check it out.

It's great for an office. Shared Contacts, Files, Calendar, includes billing and invoicing as well and even time sheets.

[G2LOQ]

Hi,

I did it and it works pretty well !!!

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$ sudo echo 'deb http://repos.groupoffice.eu/ threeseven main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371 --recv-keys 01F1AE44
$ sudo gpg --export --armor 01F1AE44 | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install groupoffice-com
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/groupoffice/
Open your browser to http://mydomain.lan/groupoffice. Log as admin/admin, activate the module Authentification IMAP and change the admin password !!!

Configure the authentification by IMAP:

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$ sudo cp /usr/share/groupoffice/modules/imapauth/imapauth.config.php.example /etc/groupoffice/imapauth.config.php
And change imapauth_combo_domains and imapauth_default_domains with your favorite editor (Vim of course!!)

Maybe restart apache:

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$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
That's all.

[andygraybeal]

Greetings

G2LOQ, I've followed your instructions and it works great!  Thank you for this.

I'm wondering if I use the LDAP module, instead of the IMAP module, if the groups in Zentyal will be enabled/recognized in Groupoffice?


-Andy

[G2LOQ]

I'm wondering if I use the LDAP module, instead of the IMAP module, if the groups in Zentyal will be enabled/recognized in Groupoffice?

Hi,

It should be possible to use the LDAP module.
Have a look here: http://www.group-office.com/wiki/IMAP_or_LDAP_authentication.
But I don't see how to map Zentyal groups...

[andygraybeal]

Thank you for the response.. I'm too new to understand how to get these things integrated

[stuartiannaylor]

From http://www.group-office.com/wiki/IMAP_or_LDAP_authentication

$config['ldap_groupsdn']='ou=Groups,dc=intermeshdev,dc=nl';

That line would indicate groups are a go go.

Webmin installs very well on Zentyal and is a great complement to the webadmin gui.
I use the ldap client and server utils on webmin as its great for browsing the ldap tree.
Webmin has loads of uses but the group-office package does look very interesting.
Groups in LDAP look like they are supported from a ten sec read.

Think I might give it a go.

[stuartiannaylor]

I downloaded the community version. The projects and billing modules are only available in the licensed version.
So for myself don't see any advantage over the excellent Zarafa module.

I use CiviCrm in a joomla portal with ldap authentication. It suits my arena of non-profits, community software.

[andygraybeal]

GroupOffice LDAP Auth ( http://www.group-office.com/wiki/IMAP_or_LDAP_authentication ) instructions say that: "Only uid, givenname, sn and mail are required at the LDAP server"

Using Webmin to browse the LDAP objects, it looks Zentyal only has 'uid'

I'm still baffled.  I would like to have GroupOffice groups and Zentyal groups sync'd.

I apologize for this.  I would need step by step instructions.  It's too over my head. If it would speed things up, I could pay for a HOWTO.  My intentions are humble. 

-Andy

[stuartiannaylor]

Andy I will have a quick browse of my group office install. I never proceeded as for me the inbuilt Zentyal Zarafa module is superior.
initially I liked the group office offering but the accounting and time tracking side are only offered in the commercial version.

I will have a go at the LDAP side this week.

[andygraybeal]

Thanks for the help man.

As a side note, I wonder what you like about Zarafa.  I like Group Office because it has the shared calendar in the community version, and from what I understand Zarafa only has the shared calendar in the Pro version.  I tried to message this specific question to you to keep this thread on topic, but I couldn't figure out how to send you a message.

-Andy

[stuartiannaylor]

I have it running and both private and public calendars.
private calendars have full permission options so you can share any calendar with any group structure.

Also it is completely intergrated ready into the zentyal system


Can we have the message system enabled?

Also I dunno but out of experience I like the way Zarafa seems to be going. I have a cron job thats dumps an Ical every 10 minutes and use that for an activities calendar through php icalendar.

[andygraybeal]

Stuart, Have you had the chance to run through the Group Office install and get the Zentyal groups linked with the Groupoffice groups?

-Andy

[stuartiannaylor]

So I failed to shift you to Zarafa

I have some spare time later this week and will have a look.