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In all honesty, I have been able to use Ubuntu for most everything, but had to keep a Windows XP system going for remote control to access Microsoft-only stuff.
by raintrees 17y ago
In all honesty, I have been able to use Ubuntu for most everything, but had to keep a Windows XP system going for remote control to access Microsoft-only stuff.
I installed Exchange 2007 with Small Business Server 2008, so accessing Public Folders pretty much requires Outlook or IE. (Evolution only seems to work with Exchange 2003...)
Which brings me to ActiveX. So much of what I do requires ActiveX that I also must have a copy of Windows around to be fully functional, as I haven't gotten WINE or IEs4Linux to support MS's RDP correctly.
Otherwise, I would be running Ubuntu only, as I don't really game much beyond all the games that have been written/ported to Linux.
- windsurfer 17y agoActiveX? What needs ActiveX nowadays, may I ask?
- raintrees 17y agoI have previously sold Small Business Server to several dozen of my clients. In order to remotely manage their systems, I am forced to use either IE's RDP plug-in or Remote Web Workplace (a Microsoft-created web site on these servers that uses RDP) if I cannot get in via VPN. And, as I mentioned, my whole email storage system currently lives in Exchange 2007 as a quite intricate set of private and public folders, not addressable by IMAP.
- dandrews 17y ago'scuse (I'm not very MS-Windows literate). Why doesn't rdesktop fit your RDP needs?
- raintrees 17y agogRDC seems to work best, as it supports an RDP clipboard. But when VPN does not work, I then require ActiveX controls (I do not allow RDP directly through my clients' firewalls). Likewise, ActiveX is the only other way that I know of that allows me to access Public Folders against an Exchange 2007 server with drag and drop support for filing to that system from my personal folders. I am a bit if an organizational nut, so I find this high on me digital "needs" list.