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 On this page you will find all blog entries of Gert ter Burg. Gert has been very involved with GroupWise and is one of the most frequent submitters at the NGWList. Gert is also responsible for the great GWCheck.com website. |
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GroupWise 7 SP4 |
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Friday, 19 March 2010 |
Novell released the latest and final support pack today for Novell
GroupWise 7. It is Novell GroupWise 7.0.4 and it is available for
immediate download.
GroupWise 7.0.4 is a compilation of all Hot Patches and Field Test
Files since Novell released GroupWise 7.0.3. GroupWise 7.0.3 was
released in early 2008 and since then customers have been able to
download Hot Patches, updates and changes through regular support
channels and their Novell Technical Services representative.
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Bill Pray on Elliott/Novell – What Might Happen to GroupWise |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
Check out this blog by Bill Pray, previous GroupWise Product Manager, on the future of GroupWise. What-if...
The bid by Elliott for Novell has lead to speculation on what may happen should the buyout be successful. Blogs from Drue Reeves ( Novell Going Private?) and Richard Jones ( Elliott/Novell: Implications on SUSE) have highlighted their observations. Having been a former Novell employee and product manager for GroupWise, I want to take the opportunity to add my observations on what might happen to Novell’s communications and collaboration technologies should the buyout occur.
GroupWise has been a solid, mature, feature rich, enterprise solution for many years. |
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Free GroupWise Interactive Quick Start Cards |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
 Messaging Architects have done it again! (since GroupWise 6!)
Try their Free GroupWise Interactive Quick Start Cards!
"Messaging Architects is committed to reducing the environmental
impact of our products and operations as an important part of the value
we deliver to our clients. As part of this initiative, we are reducing
the amount of printed materials we produce, and invite you to download
our interactive digital GroupWise Quick Start cards free of charge." |
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# Alex Evans Speaks Out On ActiveSync As It’s Going To Be – Beta Soon! |
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
 You've been waiting, but here it is. Check out this blog post by Alex Evans on the upcoming ActiveSync solution!
FWIW - I find the following statement especially interesting:
anyone on GroupWise and/or Teaming maintenance will be entitled to four products – the sync engine from "Gradenko", the Teaming connector when it ships, the GroupWise connector and the ActiveSync connector
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GW FreeWare List |
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
 Gert from GWCheck.com created a new page with GWCheck's overview of GW FreeWare.
Over the years, he's seen lots of free tools, and though many of them appear also on the Novell site, he wants to bring one document to life that contains all of them.
http://freeware.gwcheck.com
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Caledonia Guide to Moving GroupWise |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
 Time to Upgrade!
How to move GroupWise objects seems to be one of the most frequent big questions we get these days. Whether it be moving a PO to a new volume, relocating a GWIA to a new server, migrating to a different OS, GroupWise seems to be frequently "on the move". (Admins Only!) |
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Dean Lythgoe on New Platform Support |
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
 We continually receive questions about when and if we will support
GroupWise running in certain configurations, new platforms or on new
operating systems.
With each release of the product - support packs included - we meet
with Product Management, Testing, Engineering, Sales, NTS and IS&T
to evaluate and discuss which platforms we can add and which platforms
we can remove with the upcoming release of the product. There are
several challenges and things to consider. |
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I Love POA's - Part I and II |
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
 Check out these two great tips by Danita Zanrè, on restoring emails, accounts and address books.
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I Love POA's - Part I |
I Love POA's - Part II |
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How to setup a restore post office to restore emails and
accounts. Read this great Cool Solutions tip... |
How to setup a fake post office to restore an addressbook. Read it in this great tip... |
| Both by Danita Zanrè and for admins only! | |
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Hot Patches Released for GW703 and GW800 |
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 |
 Posted by Dean Lythgoe in the NGW List: " Hot Patches were released today for 7.0.3 and 8.0.0. They are 7.0.3 HP3 and 8.0.0 HP2. Included in these hot patches are code changes to address security related problems." |
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Replacement for GroupWise Mobile Server |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
Alex Evans, GroupWise Product Manager, posted on his Cool Solutions blog... "As you are all already aware, the core protocol is going to be ActiveSync, which means that any device with an ActiveSync client will be able to talk natively to GroupWise. This includes iPhone, Windows Mobile and all of the E and N Series Nokia devices." |
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Novell Collaboration Strategy |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 |
 Check out the following presentations by the " Workgroup Solutions management team", Kent Erickson, General Manager, Ken Muir, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, David Merill, VP Product Management. Market needs, opportunities for innovation, high-level roadmaps for GroupWise, Teaming + Conferencing, Open Enterprise Server and other technologies that play a part in realizing Novell's collaboration vision. |
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GroupWise Mobility Update |
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 |
Dean Lythgoe, Director of GroupWise Engineering, posted on his Cool Solutions blog... (where he mentions september is the target for GW8 SP1) " The
October release of an ActiveSync solution is highly unlikely. However,
support for GMS, Mobility, and BES will continue. We will support our
customers until a replacement mobility solution is in place. We are
actively working on the solution. We will provide more details." |
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GroupWise Roadmap |
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Thursday, 07 May 2009 |
While the spring starts in my backgarden, here's a roadmap update from Dean Lythgoe posted on his blog about the next GroupWise patches and solutions. " There continues to be a lot of activity around collaboration within Novell. It has been a very exciting time to see so many programs, interest and activities happening around our product line. Let's start with GroupWise...." |
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Comparing the Cost of Email Systems |
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 |
Osterman Research published a white paper, sponsored by Novell. This white paper, sponsored by Novell, discusses the impact that labor
and downtime can have on the total cost of managing a messaging system. |
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Need to know - BES support for GroupWise 8 |
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 |
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Since the launch of GroupWise 8 I have been receiving a number of
questions from customers about support from RIM for their BES.
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Upgrading to GroupWise 8 - a piece of cake |
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 |
Even if you don't like the Average White Band, you still like to eat your piece of the cake. (see this album - Cut the Cake). When you're in the field of supporting GroupWise, you are even more interested in every piece there is about Upgrading to GroupWise. Your customers will need to hear it. Shout, shout, let it all out...
There have been written some great new documents and books about Upgrading to GroupWise 8. |
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GroupWise TCO - finally we have it |
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
TCO. Total Cost of Ownership. Something that I think about immediately when someone starts talking about the costs of Exchange. And, as some of you might know, I maintain a special page on GWCheck about how to compare GroupWise and Exchange, called " keep your enemies closer".
Until shortly, there was no official publication about the TCO for GroupWise. I've been waiting for such documents to show for years. And almost every GroupWise product manager has failed to do it. Why ? Dunno. It's really a useful tool to have when you are selling or proving GroupWise is the right collaboration tool. Aren't we all ? Not just saying "it's the Linux way, so it must be cheaper". |
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