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Email and Groupware / Zentyal 4+ and syncing contacts/calendars
« on: December 09, 2015, 08:28:12 pm »
I've been Googling for days now and haven't found anything that solves my problem. I have a Zentyal 4.2 server, well to be honest I'm beating a few of them up now getting ready to roll out a 100% no M.S. production environment. The constant problem I've come across is that 100% of the time there is no contact syncing going on.
All I can find are lots of posts around the web saying "I followed the Wiki" with no link to whatever Wiki, "and it worked after that".
The only Wiki I found just says (in a nutshell) do "sudo apt-get install sogo-activesync then go check the box in Mail>Openchange to turn activesync on" which is kind of a duh thing.
So I have Zentyal 4.2 all setup and configured and working. I have the domain(s) inquestion in Zentyal DNS. I have 100% access to my external DNS and can add any kind of DNS entry needed. I have access to my router and I have a box wide open without a router or firewall in the way too. My question is what do I need to do to ensure contacts will sync across devices along with calendars 100% of the time?
That's kind of a deal breaker if it's just a crap shoot thing. Which is going to suck a lot for me since I was all sold on Zentyal and have pushed for moving a few different locations off of SBS 2003, 2007, 2011 and even MS Exchange. I really don't want to hear "I told you so" and I sure as hell don't like the taste of eating crow, so any help on this is super welcome!
If anyone has any ideas on how the heck I can get activesync via sogo-activesync, z-push or anything else working I'd greatly appreciate it!!!
All I can find are lots of posts around the web saying "I followed the Wiki" with no link to whatever Wiki, "and it worked after that".
The only Wiki I found just says (in a nutshell) do "sudo apt-get install sogo-activesync then go check the box in Mail>Openchange to turn activesync on" which is kind of a duh thing.
So I have Zentyal 4.2 all setup and configured and working. I have the domain(s) inquestion in Zentyal DNS. I have 100% access to my external DNS and can add any kind of DNS entry needed. I have access to my router and I have a box wide open without a router or firewall in the way too. My question is what do I need to do to ensure contacts will sync across devices along with calendars 100% of the time?
That's kind of a deal breaker if it's just a crap shoot thing. Which is going to suck a lot for me since I was all sold on Zentyal and have pushed for moving a few different locations off of SBS 2003, 2007, 2011 and even MS Exchange. I really don't want to hear "I told you so" and I sure as hell don't like the taste of eating crow, so any help on this is super welcome!
If anyone has any ideas on how the heck I can get activesync via sogo-activesync, z-push or anything else working I'd greatly appreciate it!!!
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Email and Groupware / Re: Outlook 2016 Autodiscover
« on: December 09, 2015, 08:04:56 pm »
The quick, easy fix for this works like:
1. If you're not using a trusted 3rd party ssl certificate download (from Zentyal Webmin Mail>Openchange>Download Cert) and install it as a "Trusted Root CA", DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL IT B/C THAT DOESN"T WORK, pick the TRUSTED ROOT CONTAINER!!!!!
2. Wherever your external DNS is being handled it's likely they didn't create a DNS record for it so create a subdomain "Autodiscover.yourdomain.com" - please pay close attention to "Autodiscover" and not "autodiscover" because if it's not cap it don't work.
3. Point that subdomain "Autodiscover.yourdomain.com" at "https://yourdomain.com:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml"
NO, that's not a typo, it's the file "autodiscover.xml" inside the directory "autodiscover" and yes, they are both lower case, the caps part only counts in the sub domain.
Once everything is all propagated through the DNS you should have a properly working and fully functional autodiscover.
You may need to tweak things, like obviously changing "yourdomain.com" to whatever the actual domain is. In addition I have some instances where Zentyal is solely an email server and the web server resides on a completely different IP/Subnet/etc. in which case the HTTP redirect for the subdomain points back to the FQDN "https://hostname.yourdomain.com:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml" since the actual domain name points to a completely different server.
If you're not using trusted 3rd party SSL certificates and you have not installed the root certificate from Zentyal Mail>Openchange as a trusted root certificate then you will NEVER, ever, never be able to connect vial autodiscover in Outlook. It doesn't matter what you do, or how you tweak something unless you're inside the LAN you will not be able to connect.
To the dumb a** that's going to try and be smart popping off with VPN, why on God's Green Earth would you even consider having that much overhead for people to be able to send/receive email when they can just install the cert? No, VPN is not the solution to that problem and no, VPN is not a very good idea for so many other reasons.
Anyways this should get you of the ground and working with 2016 and for the record it's still there it's just hidden better for the manual config side of things. They're just trying to scare everyone into going Exchange since they killed SBS hundreds and maybe thousands have migrated to Zentyal, ClearOS and Netserver as alternatives. Basically MS knocked themselves out of cornering the market LoL.
1. If you're not using a trusted 3rd party ssl certificate download (from Zentyal Webmin Mail>Openchange>Download Cert) and install it as a "Trusted Root CA", DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL IT B/C THAT DOESN"T WORK, pick the TRUSTED ROOT CONTAINER!!!!!
2. Wherever your external DNS is being handled it's likely they didn't create a DNS record for it so create a subdomain "Autodiscover.yourdomain.com" - please pay close attention to "Autodiscover" and not "autodiscover" because if it's not cap it don't work.
3. Point that subdomain "Autodiscover.yourdomain.com" at "https://yourdomain.com:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml"
NO, that's not a typo, it's the file "autodiscover.xml" inside the directory "autodiscover" and yes, they are both lower case, the caps part only counts in the sub domain.
Once everything is all propagated through the DNS you should have a properly working and fully functional autodiscover.
You may need to tweak things, like obviously changing "yourdomain.com" to whatever the actual domain is. In addition I have some instances where Zentyal is solely an email server and the web server resides on a completely different IP/Subnet/etc. in which case the HTTP redirect for the subdomain points back to the FQDN "https://hostname.yourdomain.com:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml" since the actual domain name points to a completely different server.
If you're not using trusted 3rd party SSL certificates and you have not installed the root certificate from Zentyal Mail>Openchange as a trusted root certificate then you will NEVER, ever, never be able to connect vial autodiscover in Outlook. It doesn't matter what you do, or how you tweak something unless you're inside the LAN you will not be able to connect.
To the dumb a** that's going to try and be smart popping off with VPN, why on God's Green Earth would you even consider having that much overhead for people to be able to send/receive email when they can just install the cert? No, VPN is not the solution to that problem and no, VPN is not a very good idea for so many other reasons.
Anyways this should get you of the ground and working with 2016 and for the record it's still there it's just hidden better for the manual config side of things. They're just trying to scare everyone into going Exchange since they killed SBS hundreds and maybe thousands have migrated to Zentyal, ClearOS and Netserver as alternatives. Basically MS knocked themselves out of cornering the market LoL.
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Installation and Upgrades / Zentyal 4.2 and SMTP Banner Problems
« on: October 31, 2015, 12:50:06 am »
Hello and happy Halloween fellow Zetyalians!!!!
It seems that my new 4.2 box is haunted and my SMTP banner was showing up as my local domain instead of my FQDN. I had to copy /usr/share/Zentyal/stubs/mail/main.cf.mas to /etc/Zentyal/stubs/mail/main.cf.mas and edited a bunch of lines. I'm 99% sure that it's the line that ends in "ESMTP" - it was kind of obvious after a ton of other messing around LoL.
I did find one line that read "my desitination = /etc/mailname" which was populated with my locan hostname/domain - I thought it'd be simple changing that to my FQDN but when Zentyal Mail module restarts the file gets overwritten and changes back.
Just thought I'd drop a note on here in the hopes that the next cat Googles and finds this page as opposed to the 100's of pages I poured through to not be able to fix it LoL.
Other than that 4.2 seems pretty rock solid with Outlook 2013/2016, Windows Phone 8.1/10 and iPhone (whatever the newest IOS is) - haven't dropped it onto anything Android yet but I'll see what I can come up with on that.
It seems that my new 4.2 box is haunted and my SMTP banner was showing up as my local domain instead of my FQDN. I had to copy /usr/share/Zentyal/stubs/mail/main.cf.mas to /etc/Zentyal/stubs/mail/main.cf.mas and edited a bunch of lines. I'm 99% sure that it's the line that ends in "ESMTP" - it was kind of obvious after a ton of other messing around LoL.
I did find one line that read "my desitination = /etc/mailname" which was populated with my locan hostname/domain - I thought it'd be simple changing that to my FQDN but when Zentyal Mail module restarts the file gets overwritten and changes back.
Just thought I'd drop a note on here in the hopes that the next cat Googles and finds this page as opposed to the 100's of pages I poured through to not be able to fix it LoL.
Other than that 4.2 seems pretty rock solid with Outlook 2013/2016, Windows Phone 8.1/10 and iPhone (whatever the newest IOS is) - haven't dropped it onto anything Android yet but I'll see what I can come up with on that.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Outlook not connecting
« on: October 27, 2015, 07:11:57 pm »
So I see a couple of things going on, first of all at the very end it says "no account settings were returned" but you have "collin@mydomain.com". When you put all of the info into the analyzer you'll need to put your correct email address and then for the username field you'll put "<localdomain>/collin" - obviously change <local domain> to your local domain without the extension like .lan or .local).
There's also a checkbox to ignore ssl, make sure that's checked because it looked like something funky was going on with your certificate chain.
Also if you're using your ISP's DNS to route traffic to your Zentyal server I've found a cool trick that works flawlessly! Create the subdomain "autodiscover.<your domain.com>" and then make a CNAME to point that subdomain to "https://<yourdomain.com>:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml".
On the SSL certificate side of things, if you're using the built-in CA then you have to download the root certificate from Mail>Open Change. Once you've downloaded it double click to open it up and hit the Install button, but don't auto install it, you have to put it in the "Trusted Root Certificates" container. If you don't do that then you'll never get Outlook to connect over secured connections. You may also want to go into the Open Change settings and check all of the boxes available when editing the settings for a mail domain.
Final note, if you're wanting to use the Zentyal with a mobile device you'll want to crack open a terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install sogo-activesync
Once it's done installing you'll have a new checkbox to enable activesync under the domains in Open Change.
Hope this helps out, let me know how things turn out.
There's also a checkbox to ignore ssl, make sure that's checked because it looked like something funky was going on with your certificate chain.
Also if you're using your ISP's DNS to route traffic to your Zentyal server I've found a cool trick that works flawlessly! Create the subdomain "autodiscover.<your domain.com>" and then make a CNAME to point that subdomain to "https://<yourdomain.com>:443/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml".
On the SSL certificate side of things, if you're using the built-in CA then you have to download the root certificate from Mail>Open Change. Once you've downloaded it double click to open it up and hit the Install button, but don't auto install it, you have to put it in the "Trusted Root Certificates" container. If you don't do that then you'll never get Outlook to connect over secured connections. You may also want to go into the Open Change settings and check all of the boxes available when editing the settings for a mail domain.
Final note, if you're wanting to use the Zentyal with a mobile device you'll want to crack open a terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install sogo-activesync
Once it's done installing you'll have a new checkbox to enable activesync under the domains in Open Change.
Hope this helps out, let me know how things turn out.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Fresh 4.1 install - neither mail/groupware nor openchange server install possibl
« on: October 22, 2015, 12:08:36 am »
The dev team is polishing up v 4.2 - which is going to rock hard core!!! I get that this can be frustrating that there is no official support for the community edition but remember we didn't pay for it. If you buy the commercial version you'll never run into these beta road blocks AND you get actual support. The guys at Zentyal are generous enough to host this forum and when they have time they often answer threads. I think 4.2 is supposed to be released in a couple of days though so they're probably pulling all nighters and chugging energy drinks to get the final bugs out for us.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: after upgrade to 4.1.5.49 can't add users anymore...
« on: October 21, 2015, 08:35:22 pm »
Oh crap I forgot exactly what to run but it's something like:
sudo dpkg --config -a
I'm kind of guessing something got hung up in the configuration side of things or something.
If that's not the ticket check out sogo-toool and dsync (it's a dovecot utility and sogo utility for backing up user accounts/messages). Between those two tools and a config backup you "should" be able to drop everything into a virtual Zentyal server or something.
I may be able to whip up a remote server to sync things if you need assistance with that. Turns out I have a ton of PC's just laying around LoL
sudo dpkg --config -a
I'm kind of guessing something got hung up in the configuration side of things or something.
If that's not the ticket check out sogo-toool and dsync (it's a dovecot utility and sogo utility for backing up user accounts/messages). Between those two tools and a config backup you "should" be able to drop everything into a virtual Zentyal server or something.
I may be able to whip up a remote server to sync things if you need assistance with that. Turns out I have a ton of PC's just laying around LoL
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Fresh 4.1 install - neither mail/groupware nor openchange server install possibl
« on: October 21, 2015, 12:04:49 am »
Hey all, this is actually really simple. The signing key is messed up so the Zentyal repository isn't verified. When you get to the point where the initial configuration says it's impossible just open up a console and run through the following 3 commands until it runs out of things to do. If the first doesn't work then just go on to the next, keep doing it like 3 or 4 times.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get -f upgrade
DON"T put any package name after install, it just knows what to do. You'll likely be prompted for installing the packages without verification, but it's legit. Everything else will NOT work, even trying installing packages individually won't cut it anymore. The problem is that when we install it manually from other repositories then stub files don't get made and Zentyal itself has no clue about what's doing what. Kind of frustrating but it worked like a champ for me!
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get -f upgrade
DON"T put any package name after install, it just knows what to do. You'll likely be prompted for installing the packages without verification, but it's legit. Everything else will NOT work, even trying installing packages individually won't cut it anymore. The problem is that when we install it manually from other repositories then stub files don't get made and Zentyal itself has no clue about what's doing what. Kind of frustrating but it worked like a champ for me!
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: after upgrade to 4.1.5.49 can't add users anymore...
« on: October 20, 2015, 11:56:42 pm »
Hmmmmm this one's looking like a Samba problem.
I'd go into users and computers and tinker with the default template as well as the LDAP settings.
Maybe turn PAM off, save changes and then back on and save changes again.
I'd also go check under Mail > Openchange to see if the unprovision button still says unprovision or if it's saying setup now.
Prior to your upgrade did you tweak any settings in anything Sama or Openchange related?
I'd go into users and computers and tinker with the default template as well as the LDAP settings.
Maybe turn PAM off, save changes and then back on and save changes again.
I'd also go check under Mail > Openchange to see if the unprovision button still says unprovision or if it's saying setup now.
Prior to your upgrade did you tweak any settings in anything Sama or Openchange related?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: No pppoe option
« on: October 20, 2015, 12:40:41 am »
Set it up in your router...
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Outlook not connecting
« on: October 20, 2015, 12:25:55 am »
Hey guys, in the Wiki it talks about connecting Outlook - you have to download your self signed certificate from Zentyal and install it under the "Trusted Root Certificates" container on your Windows machine.
You can also just go buy a 3rd party SSL certificate and use it - can't find the link now but I made a HowTo on here about using trusted SSL.
Basically as it stands right now - if you don't install your root certificate Outlook isn't going to connect ever. If you distribute the root certificate to all users and they install it correctly it'll work, if you get a 3rd party SSL going it doesn't need installing and it just works out of the box.
You can also just go buy a 3rd party SSL certificate and use it - can't find the link now but I made a HowTo on here about using trusted SSL.
Basically as it stands right now - if you don't install your root certificate Outlook isn't going to connect ever. If you distribute the root certificate to all users and they install it correctly it'll work, if you get a 3rd party SSL going it doesn't need installing and it just works out of the box.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal 4.1 e AD win2008
« on: October 19, 2015, 11:41:50 pm »
I haven't done something like that in a long time but I remember something about giving a user with the same credentials ownership on both ends.
So username 'adcontrol' with password 'abc1234' has root privilege and AD admin on the respective box.
The user in the AD has to be way at the top too.
So username 'adcontrol' with password 'abc1234' has root privilege and AD admin on the respective box.
The user in the AD has to be way at the top too.
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News and Announcements / Re: Zentyal 4.2 almost there!
« on: October 19, 2015, 11:38:02 pm »
Not that I'm complaining but most of the stuff you listed is already in Zentyal - even 3.5 for the most part. I'm personally a MS Partner with an Action Pack, so I've been using Outlook 2016 with Zentyal 4.0 for a minute or two now.
It seems to me that Zentyal is better than you're letting on is all I'm saying, can't wait to update to 4.2!!!
It seems to me that Zentyal is better than you're letting on is all I'm saying, can't wait to update to 4.2!!!
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: after upgrade to 4.1.5.49 can't add users anymore...
« on: October 19, 2015, 11:29:07 pm »
did you try just skipping ahead to the sudo apt-get -f install and sudo apt-get -f upgrade?
I literally just went through something similar.
On another side of things, did you have any stub files created from your previous version? You may need to compare old stubs to new ones.
Also, you may want to download the ISO and burn it to a DVD - maybe that can get your source list fixed up proper like for 4.1 - it's kind of a wacky situation in the world of Zentyal right now but I found something about the OpenChange version being in beta mode too or something like that.
Let me know if anything helps, I'm setting up a new box right now so I'll see if I come up with anything else.
I literally just went through something similar.
On another side of things, did you have any stub files created from your previous version? You may need to compare old stubs to new ones.
Also, you may want to download the ISO and burn it to a DVD - maybe that can get your source list fixed up proper like for 4.1 - it's kind of a wacky situation in the world of Zentyal right now but I found something about the OpenChange version being in beta mode too or something like that.
Let me know if anything helps, I'm setting up a new box right now so I'll see if I come up with anything else.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Removing unwanted domain "zentyal-domain.lan" (as hostname!) impossible?
« on: October 19, 2015, 10:06:44 pm »
On the left side of the web GUI there's a DOMAIN option - you can change it in there. The biggest problem is that you're going to likely end up with Open Change provisioning errors, network conflicts and other fun stuff and things.
So, here's the really cool part about it though, the .lan domain is only internal, nobody ever really even needs to know the name of that aside from the I.T. gang. You can still have a zillion virtual mail domains and another zillion web domains via the mail and DNS options.
So, here's the really cool part about it though, the .lan domain is only internal, nobody ever really even needs to know the name of that aside from the I.T. gang. You can still have a zillion virtual mail domains and another zillion web domains via the mail and DNS options.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: after upgrade to 4.1.5.49 can't add users anymore...
« on: October 19, 2015, 10:02:09 pm »
Jump into a terminal and run the following until it stops having something to do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
Just like it is, no pachage name needed, the -f will ask if you want to install without verifying and Y is the right answer
sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Can't say why fur sure but sometimes the -f part messed up the upgrade side of things
Anyways keep running those 3 commands until it just says nothing was done. For good measure at that point I reboot the server too. Something happened with the 4.1 repo and signing keys I guess, but the -f bit lets you finish the install. Hope this helps!
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f install
Just like it is, no pachage name needed, the -f will ask if you want to install without verifying and Y is the right answer
sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Can't say why fur sure but sometimes the -f part messed up the upgrade side of things
Anyways keep running those 3 commands until it just says nothing was done. For good measure at that point I reboot the server too. Something happened with the 4.1 repo and signing keys I guess, but the -f bit lets you finish the install. Hope this helps!