Difference between revisions of "Main Page HESE"

 
(6 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
=<span style="color:#3c739b;"> Open-Xchange Server 6</span>=
 +
 
<div id="container-1">
 
<div id="container-1">
 
* [[#information|<span>Product</span>]]
 
* [[#information|<span>Product</span>]]
 
* [[#quickinstall|<span>Download &amp; Install</span>]]
 
* [[#quickinstall|<span>Download &amp; Install</span>]]
* [[#documentation|<span>Documentation</span>]]
+
* [[#documentation|<span>User Manuals</span>]]
* [[#advanced|<span>Advanced</span>]]
+
* [[#advanced|<span>Advanced Documentation</span>]]
 
* [[#extensions|<span>Extensions</span>]]
 
* [[#extensions|<span>Extensions</span>]]
  
<div id="product">
+
<div id="information">
{{Main_Page_AppSuite#information|HESE}}
+
{{Main_Page_Information|HESE}}
 
</div>
 
</div>
  

Latest revision as of 08:04, 26 February 2013

Open-Xchange Server 6

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 Check.gif Check.gif
Depending on infrastructure and backend
Check.gif Check.gif
Depending on infrastructure and backend
Check.gif
Additional software and functionality Availability is based on contract:
Check.gifOX Documents
Check.gifOX Sync (Active Sync, CalDAV, CardDAV, OX Sync App)
Check.gifOX Drive App
Check.gifOX Mail App
Check.gifOX Guard
Check.gifeM Client for OX App Suite
Check.gifOX Sync (CalDAV; CardDAV) No additional software available Check.gifOX Sync (Active Sync, CalDAV, CardDAV) Check.gif 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

Open-Xchange Server Translations for Open-Xchange Server 6

Quick Installation Guide Open-Xchange 6

To download and install the software, please use the following Installation Guides:

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

Hosting Edition deployment tutorials

A complete guide of necessary tasks with a hardware and setup recommendation for different Open-Xchange Hosting environments:

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:

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

Manuals Open-Xchange Server 6

Hosting Edition / Server Edition (HE/SE)

  • Installation, Administration and Provisioning of users and groups
    (English)

User Guide & Quick Guide

Server Edition for Univention Corporate Server (SE for UCS)

OXtender for Business Mobility

OXtender 2 for MS Outlook

Client Updater

Mobile Web Interface

Parallels Integration

Troubleshooting

Documentation and Examples

OXtender 2 for Microsoft Outlook

Whitepapers

Overview

Branding

UI Customization and Examples

Groupware Server customization

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

Configuration and Tweaks

Testing and QA

Translations

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