Lightening up Evolution with Exchange Web Services
Off-late we have been working quite aggressively on improving our exchange connectivity using Exchange Web Services . Some evolution hackers sat together during GUADEC 2010 and discussed on the focus areas which our community users as well as corporates would be interested in. Exchange Web Services was on top of the list and David Woodhouse kick-started the work at the same time! The development went on in David’s repo - http://git.infradead.org/evolution-ews.git and you can watch out the progress there..
The festival season has started for evolution exchange and we have evolution showing the folders, mails and meetings using Exchange Web Services. We currently just have the read-only support for mailer and calendar at the moment and we are working towards providing a complete support for calendar, mails and contacts.
Its always very nice to thanks all the contributors. Thanks to David Woodhouse who kick-started it, Michael meeks he is always there 
, Johnny, Bharath Acharya, Akhil Laddha, Chen, Fridrich who has been constantly getting it to compile on Windows…
There are more developers getting involved now and thanks to the organizations for supporting the development!! We are looking forward to deliver the package by the beginning of May 2011 for all the users.. One would be able to use EWS connector with Evolution version 2.32 onwards..
Finally, will the year of Linux desktop arrive?
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to feature-completion.
Nikanth Karthikesan
February 3, 2011 at 5:57 pm
This is really great
Though the Exchange 2010 WebUI isn’t too bad, native integration is always nice!
Mike
February 3, 2011 at 6:22 pm
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February 3, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Would be pitching in from tonight
Johnny
February 3, 2011 at 6:58 pm
@nikanth, mike thanks
hoping for it 
@jony am exited, get in soon
chenthill
February 4, 2011 at 11:23 am
Good stuff! Keep it up!
Suresh Jayaraman
February 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm
thanks suresh
chenthill
February 8, 2011 at 3:09 pm
> Some evolution hackers sat together during GUADEC 2010 and…
Please sit together during GNOME.asia 2011 hackfest and finish this
Parag Kumar
February 9, 2011 at 10:05 am
@nirav do you want to join ?
chenthill
February 9, 2011 at 10:20 am
Great initiative! I’ve been looking into getting Evolution to connect to our shiny(!) new Exchange 2010 server. Evolution-EWS seems to be the best way forward, but with the latest from Git I’m just getting:
‘Error while Scanning folders in “Exchange server mydomain.com”.
No response.’
Is there any way I can help out in getting this working with Exchange 2010?
Jonas
March 5, 2011 at 1:17 am
I am looking forward to this… it is the last piece of the puzzle for me! Can’t wait!
RK
isa56k
March 17, 2011 at 11:17 pm
@chenthill
Long time no update. Is this still ongoing?
I’m a developer myself and would like to help if that’s possible…
Christoph Linder
July 6, 2011 at 11:32 pm
@christoph its going with fireworks now
checkout – http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-ews/ . You can build ews against evo 2.32 or 3.0 and start hacking 
With rapid changes with evo 3.2 api’s we have decided to make evolution-ews compatible with the same a little later.
Chenthill Palanisamy
July 7, 2011 at 11:19 am