Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by johnvanommen on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:08PM (#17593668)

About 95% of the work that I do is on Linux. But I run a Windows laptop. Why? Because of the Outlook Calendar. It's kind of amazing that so many tech companies run on Linux, but the Outlook Calendar just won't go away.

Nearly everything else in Windows I can replicate in Linux; Excel Spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, they all have Linux equivalents. But Calendar? Nope.

I've seen solutions online, and I tried them, but none of them worked seamlessly. In particular, there's a plugin for Thunderbird. But it wouldn't connect with Office 365's calendar. (Email worked perfectly fine.)

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by 18pfsmt on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:02PM (#17594052)

The relevant add-ons are Lightning and Exchange Calendar

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/lightning/

https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar/

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by abeyer on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:05PM (#17594517)

Is there mail client integration now, too?

That was the big missing link the last time I tried them... the inability to accept and/or reply on meeting invites and handle both the email and the calendar part. I was always able to view my calendar from linux, and could even edit/update personal calendar events, but I always had to fall back to windows or web to handle meeting invites. Pretty much everyone who uses O365 calendar is going to be using emailed invites and they need to work to make this a solution, but I never saw much traction on addressing that issue.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by SteveCoast on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:48PM (#17595390)

Only works if your Exchange exposes the web interface.

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