Exchange EWS Connector: active mode

🍱 Features & apps
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Hello,

OC: ubuntu 22.04
PHP: 8.1.2
EWS: Exchange Server 2019

Active Synchronization Requirements:

  • PHP CLI Installed (apt install php-cli)
  • PHP permission to shell_exec
  • PHP access to ps command
  • PHP access to kill command

I added the following line to the file /etc/sudoers:
www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/php, /usr/bin/ps, /usr/bin/kill

Manual synchronization from the menu occurs without problems, but synchronization in active mode does not work: sometimes it synchronizes, sometimes it doesn’t

How to configure these requirements correctly? Please help.

2

This is for authentication? Or to connect the mail app?

You refer to the nextcloud desktop client? When you trigger a sync manually it works, but not if it just runs in the background?

Any idea of a difference between the sometimes when it syncs and the sometimes when it doesn’t. Hints in the logs?

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Task: synchronizing calendars with Exchange using EWS. I use nextcloud web, Exchange OWA and MS Outlook. I want to synchronize calendars between these systems with minimal settings for users (without a plugin for Outlook)

Exchange EWS Connector works in passive mode (cron), but there is a delay of 5 minutes. The plugin offers instant synchronization, I would like to use this.

There are no errors in the nextcloud logs, just synchronization does not occur

Another note: if create a meeting in the Outlook calendar, after 5-15 seconds synchronization occurs and the meeting appears on the nextcloud side, but if you create a meeting in nextcloud, it does not always appear in the outlook calendar