Hi everyone,
Recently, we switched our organization to mailcow. Everything is working fine, but for some users stuck on Windows we have had some problems.
We have tried multiple clients, each with their own deal-breakers:
- Outlook with EAS: E-mail works fine. Calendar does not sync back. (also, very heavy on the server with clients making requests constantly)
- Outlook with CalDav Synchronizer: Profile disappears during setup. If you manage to set it up somehow you get a 500 ‘Request Failed’.
- Thunderbird for Windows: very heavy on resources. Using up multiple gigabytes of memory and slowing even powerful machines to a halt.
These people are used to Exchange 2016 being behind everything. And we chose to not go to the big American Microsoft e-mail cloud. But to be honest, I sometimes regret my decision purely based on how much support I have to give to users. Users would like to e-mail, schedule appointments and look into the calendar of colleagues.
Meanwhile, users in Linux-land (mostly Ubuntu) are not having any problems at all. They all use Thunderbird and there are no resource or slowing-down problems there. Switching the Windows users to some flavour of Linux is not an option.
So, I’m curious… What do you use on Windows? How has your experience been?