Zimbra Connector for Outlook (ZCO)
Do you have Microsoft Outlook users? ZCO lets them synchronize their Zimbra Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks in Outlook to keep the same user experience.
Everything Your Users Need
ZCO is Fully Integrated with Microsoft
When ZCO is installed, users can create a Zimbra mail profile for all the features they need:
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Sync Mail and Folders, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks
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Advanced persona features
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Advanced Zimbra sync for out-of-office, signatures, rules, etc.
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Advanced sharing features per folder, calendar, contact, etc.
All of Zimbra’s Power Available in Outlook
With ZCO, your users can keep using Microsoft Outlook, so their user experience doesn’t change. And they also get enhanced Zimbra features to collaborate in a better way.

Zimbra Business Features inside Outlook
ZCO has a dedicated menu tab inside Outlook where users can create out-of-office messages, filters (Zimbra Server Rules), personas and view their Zimbra mailbox quota. All the benefits of Zimbra and Outlook in one place.

Delegated Mailboxes Easier than Ever
Outlook power users love delegated mailboxes. ZCO lets them easily share and open delegated mailboxes, making collaboration much easier for cross-functional departments and users.
ZCO Advanced Calendar & Contacts Features
ZCO provides your Outlook users with Zimbra’s advanced Calendar and Contacts features. They can share calendars internally with project team members and externally with partners, customers, etc. Calendars can even be shared publicly via a link. Contacts can be shared via a standard format.
Some examples where these sharing features are especially ..
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A Manager wants to create a different calendar per employee with different tasks
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A Director wants to share a calendar with an assistant who manages appointments, etc.
Granular Sharing with Coworkers
ZCO brings your users a new and powerful collaboration feature: they can share mail folders with different privileges with different coworkers. Sharing roles are read-only, read/write and administrator.
Partial Sync
Do you have power users with thousands of emails? They can define how much data they want to sync between Zimbra and Outlook, giving quick access to new emails in Outlook while leaving other messages in the Zimbra Web Client.