Zentyal 7.0

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Kristin Dampeer

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Aug 3, 2024, 10:46:27 AM8/3/24

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What I did to remove the software was this: I removed the zentyal PPA and ran sudo apt-get remove zentyal-* But now, network manager doesn't work any more, and my system doesn't get DHCP assigned addresses.

Some people may be familiar with the Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS), now called Windows Server Essentials. Zentyal is a similar product that is based on Linux, and more specifically Ubuntu. Zentyal is also a drop-in replacement for Microsoft SBS and Microsoft Exchange Servers. Since Zentyal is open source, it is a cost-effective choice.

The Community Edition has all the latest features, stable or otherwise. No official support is offered by the company for technical issues. No cloud services are provided with the Community Edition. A new version is released every three months with unofficial support for the most recent release. Users are unlimited.

The Commercial Edition has all the latest features, stable and tested. Support is offered based on the Small and Medium Business Edition. Cloud Services are integrated into the server and based on the SMB Edition. The number of users supported by the Commercial Edition is based on the SMB Edition purchased. A new Commercial Edition is released every two years and supported for four years.

Zentyal is Debian-based and built on the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) version. The current hardware requirements for Zentyal 3.5 are based on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.1 LTS (kernel 3.5). Zentyal uses the LXDE desktop and the Openbox window manager.

The minimum hardware requirements for Ubuntu Server Edition include 300 MHz CPU, 128 MB of RAM, and 500 MB of disk space. Of course, these are bare minimums and would produce undesired responses on a network when running multiple network services.

Keep in mind that every network service requires different hardware resources and the more services installed, the more hardware requirements are increased. In most cases, it is best to start with the basic services you require and then add other services as needed. If the server starts to lag in processing user requests, you should consider upgrading your server plan.

Depending on your number of users, and which Zentyal services you plan to run, your hardware requirements will change. These are the Zentyal recommendations. For DigitalOcean deployments, you should go by the RAM column:

Because of the SSL certificate, an error is generated that the site is untrusted. You need to click on the line I Understand the Risks. Then click on the Add Exception button. Select Confirm Security Exception. After the exception is added, it is a permanent listing that does not occur again unless the server IP Address should change.

Your Zentyal username and password are the same user and password that you use to SSH to your Ubuntu server. This user must be added to the sudo group. (Granting full permissions to the user by some other method will NOT work.) If an existing user account needs to be added to the sudo group, run the following command:

Once you have selected the necessary updates, you can click on the UPDATE button at the bottom of the page. The download and installation of the update packages will begin as shown below.

For a small or medium business, Zentyal is a server that can do it all. Services can be enabled as they are needed and disabled when they are not needed. Zentyal is also user-friendly enough that novice administrators can perform system updates and profile/module installation, using the command line or the Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Great old story, but unfortunately outdated! Please adjust or remove because the latest version of Zentyal 4x does not support all the modules mentioned. Especially squid is not maintained by Zentyal anymore. It was so simple to add websites and adverts to block and now I have to use webmin and use that to install and maintain squid.

Hi Jarret,The missing thing in your guide is the firewall settings. For example if you just want to set up an openchange server and openchange web mail packages for native exchange support the firewall blocks the ssh port and 443 or 8443 (for zentyal version 4). This is an issue that I face when I try to deploy a zentyal server to a cloud droplet.