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Revision as of 12:20, 5 December 2012
Product Overview
OX App Suite | Open-Xchange Server 6 | ||||
OX App Suite | OX Web Edition | OX Community Edition | OX Server Edition | OX Hosting Edition | |
Description | Need to revitalize business growth and increase your competitive advantage? OX App Suite integrates smoothly into existing infrastructures and massively scales across multi-tenant architectures securely and reliably. Offer your users a seamless messaging experience to deliver branded, app-economy services and take back the user experience. German engineered and designed for a mobile world, OX App Suite uses open API's to deliver device independent access to email and messaging, social collaboration and digital media via a rich web-based interface. Through a modular App-based portal, HTML5 interoperability gives providers a new basis to up-sell and cross-sell white-labeled services and mobile applications. | Open-Xchange Web Edition is a multi-tier, small footprint solution that integrates seamlessly into customers architectures enabling smooth start of operation based on flexible services. The Open-Xchange Web Edition provides Web Access and Mobile Web Interface | Open-Xchange offers a Community Edition for free download and full functional evaluation versions of all supported Open-Xchange products. | Open-Xchange Server Edition is a multi-tier, small footprint solution that integrates seamlessly into customers architectures enabling smooth start of operation based on flexible services. The Open-Xchange Server Edition provides all relevant additional software. | Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is a multi-tier, small footprint solution that integrates seamlessly into software service providers’ architectures enabling delivery of a Smart Collaboration™ SaaS |
Target Customer (not exclusive) | Open-Xchange´s software code can be used to set up an on-premise installation in educational institutions, public sector organizations and SME’s to deliver a cloud service currently used by over 60 million users. It gives the freedom to move data between providers or from a hosted solution into an on-premise installation. | Open-Xchange Web Edition is designed for medium organizations, educational institutions and public administrations that are looking for a customizable communication solution | Open-Xchange Server software is licensed under GPLv2. The Open-Xchange web-based user front end is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic License. Please note: Open-Xchange is not offering support, certified updates or OXtender for the Community Edition. | Open-Xchange Server Edition is designed for medium organizations, educational institutions and public administrations that are looking for a customizable communication solution | Organizations that want to provide an email and collaboration solution to their customers (Software as a Service) |
Key Features (above email, calendar, contacts, tasks, document management) | Multi machine hosting, modular and fully customizable | Multi machine hosting, modular and fully customizable | Multi machine hosting, modular and fully customizable | Multi machine hosting, modular and fully customizable | Multi machine hosting, modular and fully customizable |
Multi tenant capability | Depending on infrastructure and backend |
Depending on infrastructure and backend |
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Additional software and functionality | Availability is based on contract: OX Documents OX Sync (Active Sync, CalDAV, CardDAV, OX Sync App) OX Drive App OX Mail App OX Guard eM Client for OX App Suite |
OX Sync (CalDAV; CardDAV) | No additional software available | OX Sync (Active Sync, CalDAV, CardDAV) | All additional software for OX 6 are supported (based on individual custom packaging) |
Requirements - Open-Xchange supported components overview
The Open-Xchange software requirements page provides an overview about the supported components at the OX User Front-End, Connector for Business Mobility, OX Documents, etc.. This overview makes no claim to be complete.
Versioning and Numbering of Open-Xchange Products
Open-Xchange Versioning and Numbering
Open-Xchange Version Support Commitment
Available Languages for Open-Xchange Server 6
Quick Installation Guide Open-Xchange 6
To download and install the software, please use the following Installation Guides:
- Download and Installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (Wheezy)
- Download and Installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (Jessie)
- Download and Installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Download and Installation Guide for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6
- Download and Installation Guide for CentOS 6
- Download and Installation Guide for Univention Corporate Server (SE for UCS)
- Installing Open-Xchange Language Packages
Installing the latest Updates 6.20.x and 6.22
To get in favor of the latest minor features and bugfixes, you need to have a valid license. The article Updating Open-Xchange Server packages packages explains how that can be done.
Update Guide from 6.20.7 to 6.22
The execution of changes is mostly automated, but administrators will need to make some manual changes. Open-Xchange has provided a special Update Page with all necessary information.
Please note that the update to v6.22 is only supported from an installed version 6.20.7 or later. If you have an earlier version of Open-Xchange Server 6 installed, please update to the latest release of v6.20 before attempting an update to v6.22.
There is also a complete overview document to assist you in making a successful update to this new major version:
Parallel Setup of OX App Suite UI and OX 6 UI
- Parallel Setup Guide for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (Squeeze)
- Parallel Setup Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6
- Parallel Setup Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
Hosting Edition deployment tutorials
A complete guide of necessary tasks with a hardware and setup recommendation for different Open-Xchange Hosting environments:
- Hosting Edition deployment tutorial for up to 10.000 Users
- Hosting Edition deployment tutorial for up to 100.000 Users
- Hosting Edition deployment tutorial for up to 1.000.000 Users
Reporting Tool (Mandatory for Maintenance)
To receive maintenance in the future, the installation of the Open-Xchange Reporting Tool is mandatory. It documents the current state of your system installation. Furthermore, the tool runs a validity check for your current maintenance. Based on the reported detail information Open-Xchange will be able to improve its own support and maintenance offerings for you. This article explains how that can be done:
- Configuring open-xchange-report-client
OXtender for Business Mobility (ActiveSync)
OXtender for Business Mobility enables to securely manage emails, contacts, calendar and tasks always synchronized with Open-Xchange – Based on Microsoft Exchange Active Sync (EAS) standard.
Open-Xchange Calendar synchronization with CalDAV
Integration with Mac OS X, iOS and Thunderbird Lightning makes Open-Xchange appointments available to end users through their native applications. The synchronization protocols are available for Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Hosting Edition.
Open-Xchange Contact synchronization with CardDAV
Integration with Mac OS X and iOS makes Open-Xchange contacts available to end users through their native applications. The synchronization protocols are available for Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Hosting Edition.
Installation Requirements/Information
- The Open-Xchange software requirements page provides an overview about the supported components at the OX User Front-End, Connector for Microsoft Outlook, Connector for Business Mobility and OX Notifier. This overview makes no claim to be complete.
- Importing the Open-Xchange public buildkey
Manuals Open-Xchange Server 6
Hosting Edition / Server Edition (HE/SE)
- Installation, Administration and Provisioning of users and groups
(English)
User Guide & Quick Guide
- User Guide
(German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Mexican Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,)
Server Edition for Univention Corporate Server (SE for UCS)
- User Guide
(German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Mexican Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,)
OXtender for Business Mobility
- OXtender for Business Mobility User Guide
(German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Polish)
OXtender 2 for MS Outlook
- OXtender for MS Outlook User Guide
(German, English, French Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Japanese)
Client Updater
- Open-Xchange Updater Administration Guide
(English) - Open-Xchange Client Updater User Guide
(German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish) - Open-Xchange Client Updater Update.XML Administration Guide
(English)
Mobile Web Interface
Parallels Integration
Troubleshooting
- Open-Xchange Forum
- Check the Open-Xchange Support Database
- FAQs can be found in the SDB FAQ section.
- Passwords in Open-Xchange
- Outlook OXtender best practice
- Outlook OXtender 2 best practice
- Creating an OX Support Tarball
Documentation and Examples
- Open-Xchange configuration options summary
- OX Permission Level Matrix
- Changing the default tree view
- Open-Xchange Supported Crawler Matrix (Status OX6 v.6.16)
- How to integrate the InfoStore into your Windows Desktop (German, English)
- Architecture Overview
- Software architecture diagram
- Integrate Open-Xchange into SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
- Load balancing and OX clustering
- Integration of Open-Xchange into MS Active Directory and Exchange
- Publishing Data with Open-Xchange
- Restoring contexts using the context restore bundle
- Lawful Interception (Telekommunikationsüberwachung)
- Introduction to EMail Push in Open-Xchange
- Special Wizard firstrun mode for personal data gathering on first login
- Backup of an Open-Xchange installation
OXtender 2 for Microsoft Outlook
Whitepapers
Overview
Branding
- White-labeling the Open-Xchange GUI for big hosting/reseller environments
- GUI Theming Description
- User and context based themes
- GUI Branding Plugins
UI Customization and Examples
- Embedding external web applications which require authentication
- Setting User/GUI Preferences via RMI
- Open-Xchange Netvibes UWA mashup
- GUI Plugin Development
- GUI Plugin API Documentation
- Enable the TinyMCE spell-checker module
- HTTP API Examples
- Install and configure the mail-account plugin
Groupware Server customization
- Automatically delete users OX-Objects and OX-Folders
- Auto login, session handling, single sign on
Programming Interfaces
- The HTTP API is used by the Open-Xchange GUI and various 3rd party applications. It consists mainly of messages in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) sent over HTTP.
- Provisioning API to access the Open-Xchange Admin Daemon
- The RMI API is used for data provisioning of Contexts, Users, Groups and Resources as well as for configuring Databases, Filestores and OX Servers. It is currently split into two parts,
- The Open-Xchange CLT are shell scripts that simplify groupware and service administration
- Create contexts/users with with Csv_import
- Provisioning using SOAP
- The Oxmapi is a windows library for programmers needed to communicate with the OX server
- Open-Xchange Mail Abstraction Layer
- The Plugin API for extending the GUI is described in two documents: an overview and the reference
- UDPPush Open-Xchange PUSH Interface for Groupware Objects
Importing and exporting data
- Migrate a batch of users and contexts at once. Check the CSV Batch Import documentation page.
- Documentation for the data import format
- VCard and ICal support
- Using the export servlet
- Using the import servlet
- Example in bash to extract private contacts,tasks,appointments in ical/vcard format
- Importing holidays into the OX Calendar
- Architecture of the crawler bundle
Configuration and Tweaks
- Basic troubleshooting
- HTML Whitelist configuration
- Open-Xchange Configuration
- Session migration
- syslog Configuration
- Integrate OXAE Mailinglists into Open-Xchange
- Mail Notification (Push) with Open-Xchange
- Apache2 tuning
- Running a cluster
- Java startup parameters
- Handling spam
Testing and QA
Translations
- Available Language Translations
- Translate Open-Xchange to your community language
- Translate Open-Xchange to supported language
Installation based on source code
Open-Xchange Plugins
Open-Xchange is using the OSGi architecture to have maximum extensibility and flexibility. Many parts of Open-Xchange Server can be replaced by different OSGi components, which are called Bundles.
If you have further requests, this document describes the Open-Xchange feature prioritization process and the options for partners and customers to either feed feature requests into this process or to order custom feature implementations.
Community OXtender
OX LDAP Sync
Open-Xchange Munin integration