Solaris 11 Exam in Beta Phase

December 19th, 2011

If you are interested in Solaris Certification, consider the Solaris 11 beta.  The cost for this exam is only $50.  It is an evaluation of the exam, so expect to take the entire 3 hours to finish the exam.  Plus new content is on this exam above what is found on the Solaris 10.

Older topics still include zones and ZFS.

Learn more by visiting oracle.com.

Managing Applications in Egroupware

January 5th, 2011

I saw this post on the egroupware users forum which was very helpful for me!

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I recently upgraded to v1.8.001 svn 32411 from 1.6.003 and I am having some difficulty managing applications.

In 1.6 I could go into Admin / Application Management and disable felamimail because I use an external email client (thunderbird). When I would click on an email address in the Addressbook a new thunderbird email window would open because the link was a mailto:

In version 1.8 I go into Admin / Application Management and all I can do is change the order. I can not disable the applications that I don’t use (mostly felamimail).

How are you suppose to manage applications in version 1.8? I could go into setup and remove it, but I am afraid this would break the behind the scenes emailing capabilities of eGroupware.

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The best way to manage applications is in the groups options. You choose to (en)|( dis)able applications to the selected groups.

Secrets to getting Egroupware Email to work

December 13th, 2010

Just moved from vtiger.com to egroupware.org. Our Sales and Marketing team at Funutation use online collaboration to allow most of us to work from home or on the road.

Was never sure what caused the problems on vtiger. Were they my issue or vtiger? Was it due to running on a shared server for $9 per month? The first issue with vtiger was it was running extremely slowly. Also even though users were given elevated profiles, they didn’t work. These were cured with the 5.2 and 5.2.1 upgrade.

But now we have trouble where our January events aren’t showing up in the Calendar view, so we decided to try a new package. You can learn more about Egroupware at http://www.egroupware.org. They have a community version we use and can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/

The install went relatively smoothly until it was time to setup email. This website helped:

http://egroupware.219119.n3.nabble.com/SMTP-Problem-pop-before-smtp-td251928.html

What I had to do may be too extreme, but it worked for me.

  1. Click the “Admin” tool (blue icon with 3 knobs)
  2. Scroll down to emailadmin and click “Site configuration”
  3. Choose the default profile and just complete the Global section
    1. My domain was funutation.com
    2. Organization: Funutation Tekademy LLC
    3. Profile access rights for application, group, and user: Set to any
    4. Global options: Click all 3 (three) boxes so that all 3 checkmarks show
  4. Now save
    1. The window pops up again to enter another email account, but just close it
  5. Now click on the EMAIL icon
  6. On the left, select “Manage eMail Accounts and Identities”
  7. Click the Page icon with the yellow marker to create the new account
  8. Complete you Name, Organization, and email address (you can define a signature later)
  9. Click the box to “Use Custom Settings”
  10. I use IMAP so make sure the Port Number is 143
  11. For SMTP the port should be 25 in most cases (unless you’re using googlemail.com, the free SMTP server)
  12. Click Save, and you should be good to go. Now click the Email Icon and try sending a test email message.

Finally change the “admin” account name to something else. A hacker got into my system within a week that appeared to come in from Russia. I was able to get things fixed before it was too late and changed my “admin” login name to something new like “newadminuser” and changed the password.

I really like the Egroupware system. I’ll miss the Lead Generation system that was built into vtiger but that can be worked around. Hopefully there’s an easy way to import the calendar from vtiger, but I expect not.

IBM Releases Best LibreOffice Available

October 28th, 2010

IBM has finally released version 3 of Symphony, the Free-Open Source Office Automation suite. This is based on Libre Office (they were recently Open Office). Learn more at libreoffice.org

To learn more about Symphony, visit symphony.lotus.com. The suite is the best, and runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac!

I’ve conducted business presentation with symphony, written business plans, and conduct forecasting with the spreadsheets. Download this product. It’s better than any office automation suite I’ve seen out there.