In this post we want to give you an update about the roadmap for Group-Office. Some time ago we announced the development of version 7.0. Version 7.0 was going to be a full rewrite with a completely new PHP backend and a new responsive web interface to replace the current ExtJS interface. We we’re working on this for about 3 years aside the regular Group-Office 6 development and tailor made modules we produce.
Despite that the development resulted in a very nice piece of software, we’re not goi...

A customer asked how they could get all sales data from Group-Office on to a television screen. I've written this little script to get this info. Group-Office has no real API (yet) but it is possible to get this data.

The client class is used to connect to Group-Office and get's the year report data which they can use to display.

Because this might be useful to others I've written this tiny blog post:


<?php class Client { private $host; private $curl; p...

Recently we converted the Group-Office database to the collation "utf8mb4_unicode_ci". We did this to support 4 byte unicode characters. Some customers may want to use another collation because of sorting in the database. For example Danish users want to use "utf8mb4_danish_ci". You can choose any collation as long as it starts with "utf8mb4".
You can use this bash script to convert all tables in the database.
Make a backup first!
#!/bin/bash DB="go61mb4" COLLATE="utf8mb4_unicode_ci"...

Recently we converted the Group-Office database to the collation "utf8mb4_unicode_ci". We did this to support 4 byte unicode characters. Some customers may want to use another collation because of sorting in the database. For example Danish users want to use "utf8mb4_danish_ci". You can choose any collation as long as it starts with "utf8mb4".
You can use this bash script to convert all tables in the database.
Make a backup first!
#!/bin/bash DB="go61mb4" COLLATE="utf8mb4_unicode_ci"...

I was searhing for a simple monitoring tool but most tools out there are very complex. We use 3rd party virtual private servers now so hardware monitoring is not our business. We're interested in monitoring two things:

1. Free disk space
2. CPU load

So I use two simple scripts that send out an e-mail alert when the diskspace is low or the CPU load it too high.

You can create the two scripts below and edit the MAILTO and TRIGGER variables to suit your needs /usr/loc...

There's a very nice Android synchronization client called DAVDroid.
The beauty of this app is that the setup is extremely simple and sets up contact and calendar sync in one step. Here's a quick run through the setup:

1. Install the DAVDroid app and open it.
2. Select URL and user name:
3. Fill in your details:
4. Select the auto detected your address books and calendars you'd like to sync:

Now it's done and you can view the new calendars and address b...

Often it's desired to connect a website to Group-Office. For example you might want to have a sign up form that adds a contact to Group-Office.
Group-Office has a powerful JSON API to do this. Here's an example script that add's a contact using cURL. With cURL you can do HTTP requests in your own PHP script that you can run on your own CMS like Wordpress or Drupal for example.



<?php //URL to Group-Office. You must use SSL because we use basic auth! $groupoffice_url = "ht...

When hosting e-mail, you'll have to deal with spam unfortunately. We use Amavis with spamassassin and ClamAV antivirus. This setup works great fo 95% of the time but there are always some spam messages that pass the spamfilter. For this you can train spamassassin to recognize the spam better.
I came across a nice dovecot plugin that is very simple to implement. Users can classify messages as spam simply by moving the messages into the spam folder. Taking messages out of the spam folder tells spamassas...

Unfortunately my Asus Zenbook Prime's SSD drive failed so I had to install a fresh system for Group-Office development (twice...). I thought it would be useful to post my steps right after a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 installation:

1. Install java for netbeans $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
2. Install Netbeans from site. $ sh ~/Downloads/netbeans-8.0-linux.sh
3. Install Group-Office $ sudo echo -e "\...

New technologies for the web are rising rapidly. As an application development company it's important to keep up with new technologies. I've explored and finally started to develop two frameworks that we will use for new applications.


On the server I want to create an API that's just communicating with clients through JSON requests. The server and client should be completely decoupled in my opinion. The server runs with the Intermesh PHP framework that features:

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