"Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot. Officials announced a " milestone for digital sovereignty in the country" with the completion of a project to migrate "more than 40,000 accounts and well over 100 million emails and calendar entries" away from Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Mozilla Thunderbird."
"Schleswig-Holstein has been working on replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice for some years. The Register first reported on the move to LibreOffice in 2021. However, now that it's replaced Outlook, the government can move on with uninstalling Office. Still underway is the replacement of Microsoft SharePoint with Nextcloud, and it's testing out desktop Linux too. As The Register has examined before, Schleswig-Holstein's is not the first such effort."
Schleswig-Holstein completed migration of more than 40,000 accounts and over 100 million emails and calendar entries from Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Mozilla Thunderbird. The state has been replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice and is replacing Microsoft SharePoint with Nextcloud while testing desktop Linux. The effort aims to strengthen digital sovereignty and keep European data under European control, as emphasized by CADE. The migration encountered earlier problems but ultimately succeeded. Historical privacy concerns date back to 2011. Comparable efforts include Munich's earlier Linux migration, which later partially reversed.
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