Evolution and Microsoft Outlook WebAccess

• Skype, the free voice over IP phone. Simply go to Skype webpage, select download and download the package. Then make sure that the adept manager is closed and using right-click select the downloaded file. Select the Kubuntu packages install, approve the required password and that's it. You'll find the Skype installed and ready in your internet menu entries.
• Picasa, the pictures album manager, from Google. Use this link to select the download. When the file is ready, simply do as written above for Skype.
  

Evolution and exchange. I guess that you are using some kind of exchange server, probably in work. You may have exchange over the web access, but you hate the way it is managed by Firefox. The solution is named Evolution, from Novell, but it is a bit tricky to configure and run. Do the following:

• First, in adept search for evolution, select evolution and its exchange plug-in.
• Now, evolution is a bit tricky sometimes to run in the first time. Try to run it from the Kmenu->Internet menu. If does not load, open a Konsole using Kmenu->System->Konsole.
• In the Konsole write "evolution" and press enter. If the last line is "segmentation fault (core dumped) run: "evolution --disable-eplugin" instead. Most probably that you are able to run evolution. In evolution window, use "edit-preferences" and add an e-mail account. It does not matter which one of your accounts you add.
  
• Now, close evolution, exit the Konsole and open evolution from the regular Kmenu.
• In evolution, add your exchange account. When selecting server type, select Microsoft Exchange.
  
• Enter your user name. Note that user name is not email address. User name is the one you use to log in to the network.
  
• Enter your over the web access URL. It would probably look like: https:\\owa.company.com\ecxhange\
• Authenticate it using your login password and now you have a window of properties.
• In "identity" tab enter your required information.
  
• In "receiving mail" tab make sure everything is correct.
• In "receiving options" tab you configure how often to check for mail in the server and other staff. Select whatever you like. The most important thing is "Global Catalog server name". This is where the server saves the global directory of email addresses. Look in your outlook address book settings in MS-Outlook to find that out.
• Defaults tab usually needs no adjustments.
• In "exchange settings" you can add "out of the office" auto-reply or set passwords.
• In "security" tab I have nothing crossed, so probably everything is not required there.