Posts Tagged ‘open source’
Open Source Exchange Control Panel – Part II
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
As you may have seen in a previous post, I have been working on developing a control panel for Microsoft Exchange. This was done as part of my University dissertation; It was completed back in May, and obviously did well as it got me a First.
This control panel was aimed at small businesses with no IT departments, and uses PowerShell as the backend to communicate with Exchange. This works great in small, low use environments. However when you start getting multiple users, using it a lot PowerShell becomes a bottleneck. I’ve since learned that using the HMC interface, or other Exchange API is probably better suited to this, and I want to look at doing this.
There are a number of control panels that cater for Exchange out there now, and I’m sure do it better than I could, so I’m not pursing this project to try and sell it and compete with them, I think the community needs a good, open source control panel for Exchange that lets small companies administer Exchange easily, whether its for use in the office, or hosting companies that want to start offering hosted exchange services, but can’t afford the exorbitant charges for other control panels, on top of there Exchange licenses.
It may be that the code I already have is no good, that we need to start again and re-think the whole design (in fact I think its quite likely, the code was produced by myself, with no outside input, thank you university supervisors for that), but what I have already gained from this project is knowledge, about the inner workings of Exchange, that can be used to go forward.
So I’m looking for help, from anyone who wants to get involved with a creating a simple, easy to use, Open Source control Panel for Exchange 2007, and maybe even getting in first for Exchange 2010. I’ll donate whatever code I have that is useful, but anyone involved in this would be on an equal footing, everyone’s ideas are worthwhile and I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who know more about this than me.
So, if you’re interested in joining and getting this project going, send me an email, mail [@] samcogan dot com, or leave a comment here. Hopefully there are some others who are as interested and excited about this as I am.
Tags: Exchange, Exchange 2007, open source
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Open Source Control Panel for Exchange 2007
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
I’m contemplating open sourcing the control panel I’m currently developing for MS Exchange 2007, for a university project. I think with some work this could become a pretty useful application for all those people in small business, who want to get back control of their exchange server without paying for expensive IT support, or with adaption, a simple control panel for hosted Exchange services. Any thoughts, anyone interested in its use, or being involved in development?
Tags: Exchange 2007, open source, Project
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