Zarafa SummerCamp 2012 - Migrating from Windows Servers to Linux with Zentyal and Zarafa

Linux small business server

Migrating from Windows Servers to Linux with Zentyal and Zarafa

Zarafa Summercamp 2012


www.zentyal.com © eBox Technologies S.L. 2012

What is Zentyal?

Linux server for SMBs

All IT infrastructure: Internet access, files, communications, etc.

Easy-to-use

Secure and reliable

Based on Ubuntu Server

Replace Microsoft infrastructure for SMBs

Small Business Server, Windows Server, Exchange, Forefront, Lync, etc.



Backed by Canonical

Official Canonical support

Commercial Zentyal Server editions are supported by Canonical

Global Ubuntu OS support by Canonical

Zentyal Partners are also official Ubuntu Partners

Don't miss Zentyal – Canonical webinar

26th June 5:00 pm CET

http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/50463

http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/50463



Open source project

Project started in 2004

GPL v2

In Ubuntu repositories since 2007

7,000 community members and growing

45,000 downloads / month

One of the most popular business-led open source projects in the world



Commercial offering

Communityedition

Small Businessedition

Enterpriseedition

Testing purposes Max 25 users Unlimited users

Updates

Backup

RMM platform

Ubuntu support

Multi-site support

E-mail support Available

SLA NBD 4 h

Price FREE 49.50 €/month 119.50 €/month



Our challenge

Zentyal generates thousands of leads per month

From every sector and every country

Our customers require local services

Looking for partners in Europe

Small-medium managed service providers

Provide total IT solutions for their customers

Clear geographical focus



Case study

Limerick City Council, Ireland



Limerick, Ireland

www.limerick.ie

http://www.limerick.ie/



Limerick City Council

ICT Background

450 Desktops in 6 main sites

9 main business areas: Roads, Water, Planning, Environment, Finance, Social Housing, Fire Station, Emergency Control Centre, Arts& Culture (3 Public Libraries, City Gallery of Art, Museum)

Windows Network with AD and mostly MS Software

A team of 4 to support desktop, server and communications services



Open source in LCC

The problem

High Licensing Costs in MS Enterprise Agreement

No options and therefore no purchasing power

Solutions

Evaluated OS products (2009)

Open Office (Libre Office)

Zentyal (eBox) (2010)



The Migration Process

Identified the strategic move: we need purchasing options

Senior Management Support (essential)

Phased deployment: Senior Management First!

Communications with staff: buy in is key

Training for staff and IT support

Co-ordinate software replacement with hardware upgrades: new pc new software→

Continuous support for the new technologies



Zentyal

Advantages

Integration between services (LDAP-Postfix-Zarafa-Samba)

Easily extendible to adapt to existing software

Unified web interface to manage the services

Quick deployment - reduced IT resources

Extensive Support from Zentyal



Zentyal

AD – OpenLDAP Synchronization is Essential

Eliminates need for duplicate authentication

OpenLDAP can operate independently from AD

Facilitates migration process, service by service: Mail, File&Print, Proxy, etc.

Example: mail migration

Problem: Running email in two systems while maintaining the same domain (@limerickcity.ie)

Solution: Zentyal Master/Slave servers, AD Synch tool



How to migrate to Zarafa

Open LDAP for user authentication

Zarafa server is a slave to the master LDAP

Zentyal Synch tool between AD and OpenLDAP

Postfix to relay mail for both Exchange and Zarafa

Script to automate creating Contacts in the Exchange GAL

ExMerge tool to batch export mail boxes in PST

Zarafa Migration tool to batch import/export PST

MailMeter captures all the emails for archiving purposes



Where are we now?

Mail

440 users migrated to Zarafa (99.9%)

Estimated growth to 1000+ due to mergers

MS Exchange to be phased out by end of 2012

High Availability implemented and in evaluation

Several browser-related issues

Community edition



Where are we now?

Samba

4 Departments moved to Samba

ACLs to integrate permissions for Windows clients

Open LDAP used by Samba for File & Print

Ongoing works on printer sharing



Questions?

?



Thank you!

For additional information:

Visit our stand!

www.zentyal.com

[email protected]

Follow us at:

www.twitter.com/zentyal | www.facebook.com/zentyal

http://www.zentyal.com/

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.twitter.com/zentyal

http://www.facebook.com/zentyal

Technology

Zarafa SummerCamp 2012 - Migrating from Windows Servers to Linux with Zentyal and Zarafa