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Omni, the guys behind RIVA, have set up a website for RIVA CRM solutions. Check it out. _

Remember the GroupWise cartoons by Howard Jones? One of his projects was a calendar for Toffa. This great initiative has been republished as the Toffa 2010 Calendar. Late but great: get it here and enjoy the cartoons. _

Help test the future of Firefox! The latest beta version of Firefox is now available as a preview release. Take it for a test drive and let us know what you think! As you might (not) know, GWCheck has been a Firefox fan from day one. See my name on this add in the New [...]

The GW 8.0.2 Mac client supports Mac OS X 10.6. _

Think of using IMAP for accessing GroupWise? Question in the NGW List: What difference is there if you enable imap on gwia or directly on the poa? Answer(s): Functionally? – no difference. Performance? – you get a little quicker response from POA. When hitting GWIA, it has to talk to the POA to get the [...]

July 26th, 2010 by Amie Johnson Today, Novell announced that its Data Synchronizer product is now shipping with a GroupWise connector. Specifically this means that Novell GroupWise now syncs to Microsoft SharePoint and other third-party applications including Salesforce.com and SugarCRM. With server-side synchronization, Novell Data Synchronizer users can avoid switching between applications manually to keep [...]

Deploying GroupWise 8.0.2? Use the MSXML4 that comes with the client. Microsoft has a newer one, MSXML6 but only MSXML4 meets the requirements for GW8. Assuming MSXML6 is a newer version that will work with GW is therefor wrong. They can be installed next to each other. Note: The MSXML4 that Novell ships isn’t the [...]

Added a new free tool to the GWCheck.com GW FreeWare List: GWAuditReport by Bryan Keadle. GWAuditReport is a utility, much like my GWAttachmentStats, that takes the GWCheck log file and turns it into a TAB-delimited file, that can then be brought into a spreadsheet. Documentation – Download _

The July 2010 edition of the free GroupWise Resource Archive is now available for the GroupWise Community. Collated by Advansys over many years, the GroupWise Resource Archive includes NGW Digest emails since November 1999 from the essential GroupWise administrator’s self-help NGW List resource, www.ngwlist.com. In addition, it includes Novell GroupWise Cool Solutions weekly news since [...]

Need patches for (all) GroupWise versions? Find it here. It’s a redo of the previously under appreciated PatchFinder. Version Version 2.4.3. _

Like reading some of the following blogs…? GWCheck.log Alex Evans – GroupWise product manager BlissPoint – E-mail Expert Cool Solutions – the GroupWise Community Danita’s Desk – GroupWise Goddes Dean Lythgoe – Director of GroupWise Engineering Jeff Jaffe – Novell Chief Technology Officer John Dragoon – Novell Chief Marketing Officer Messaging Architects MSI Wisdom – [...]

GroupWise 8 SP2 is available for download. Dean Lythgoe published the following on his blog, concerning a security alert that comes with the support pack: Security Alert Finally, this support pack includes fixes that address recent GroupWise security issues. Details about these security fixes are provided below. GroupWise 8 SP2 is available to all GroupWise [...]

The huge Novell show GWAVACon EMEA is going to happen again in Berlin, 23rd to 25th of October. Open Horizons is going to be a sponsor at that event and would be happy to meet you there to discuss the latest Novell technologies. GWAVA is offering a special discount to all Open Horizons members worldwide. [...]

Osterman Research is a conducting a survey about various communications management issues. If you are knowledgeable about email and other systems in your organization, and if your organization has between 1,000 and 5,000 employees, we would appreciate your completion of the survey. From among those who complete this survey, we will randomly choose one respondent [...]

Posted in the NGW List by Dean Lythgoe, Director of GroupWise Engineering: We are validating the GroupWise 8.0.2 GMC image. We have all of the fixes/changes we were expecting. We have turned it over to QA. This process takes 5-7 days. Our target is mid to end of next week to make it publically available. [...]

ConsoleOne which is included with GroupWise 8 Support Pack 1 or later software is the only supported version of ConsoleOne on Windows 7 workstation. ConsoleOne software which is directly available on the Novell’s download site is not supported on Windows 7. _

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Just got the word from Tim Heywood – a co-Novell Knowledge Partner – that he’s updated a bunch of work on the GroupWise 8 Best Practices wiki. Check it out ! FYI Find WIKI’s on GWCheck.com/dpml/wiki-s. Find Best Practices on GWCheck.com/dpml/best-practices. _

As posted earlier on GWCheck.com there is a registry key for not displaying the Documents folder. This is used for environments that don’t want the Documents folder to be visible. It is not removing the folder, just makes it invisible (and all folders below it – as explained later in this post). This is the [...]

From Dean’s blog: … announce that we are planning a product launch in the fall, with a public beta beginning in July. In the meantime, … you can take advantage of the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack open technology preview. … The Technology Preview was updated today. Please download the update and check it out. [...]