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Manage, create and run an unlimited number of Formativ solutions for GroupWise. Key Features Thunderbird 2 GroupWise is a user friendly tool that transfers the existing mails from a Thunderbird mail client into GroupWise. Thunderbird 2 GroupWise is a Thunderbird 2 GroupWise creates With gwreport you can export 26 groupwise attributes. The program can be used with any Groupwise version 5. The Formativ Framework for. NET 1. Select Software, then Patches.

The three most recent patches in the list are dated 01 Aug Thank you. No longer available Because of problem with Spanish SetuIP client distribution. Not big deal for any other language.

I just ignored them all I'm not sure if those files are truly missing, or if they don't exist and the installer is looking for them by mistake. I'm guessing this is why it got pulled. SP2 has been taken offline in the interim and will be replaced soon. It can be accessed via download. When you create a new eDirectory tree on Windows, the surname of the Admin user is automatically set to a single space. This can cause problem in some GroupWise situations.

For best results, manually set the surname of the Admin user to something meaningful. We recommend using an SMB mount instead. All directory names in paths to GroupWise domains and post offices should consist of lowercase letters. Filenames should also consist of lowercase letters.

There are no length restrictions. When you create a new eDirectory tree on Linux, the surname of the Admin user is automatically set to a single space. Support Pack 2 or later resolves the problem. However, some browser settings need to be cleared in order for the fix to take effect. Click Privacy , then click Settings.

Select Clear private data when closing Firefox , then click OK twice. When you update the POA software, updated view files are copied to the software distribution directory but not to post offices. This maintains any customizations you might have made in the view files. If you have created custom view files with the same names as standard view files, you must create backup copies so that your customized view files are not lost in the refresh process.

After you refresh the views, you must restore your customized view files to the post office. If you enabled SOAP in the original GroupWise 7 release, and if you changed the SOAP port number from its default of , this information was not correctly replicated from the domain database to which ConsoleOne was attached to the post office database used by the POA for its configuration information. If you enabled SOAP in GroupWise 7 and changed the port number, you need to force the port number to replicate from the domain database to the post office database.

By manually modifying the SOAP information, the SOAP information, including the port number, is written to the domain database and then properly replicated to the post office database so that redirection works properly for SOAP clients.

In addition, earlier versions of Evolution can cause high utilization on GroupWise servers. You can put up to 10 switch entries in the startup file, so that you can list as many as 10 versions of Evolution. Entries beyond 10 are ignored. This switch has not been functional for several releases and has not been included in the product documentation.

It is no longer performing the function that it did in earlier versions because the MTA now handles the trunk width tuning automatically.

On some Windows servers, port is already used by the Windows Task Scheduler or other Windows service. Normally, when you update your agent software with a Support Pack, you can use the Install Agents option in the GroupWise Installation program to install the updated agent software, but you do not need to use the Configure Agents option because your agents are already configured. However, in GroupWise 7 Support Packs, you should use Configure Agents after updating the agent software in order to obtain the updated grpwise script.

Under certain circumstances, the Linux agents to do not start automatically at system startup, even though you selected Launch GroupWise Agents on System Startup during installation. Use the following commands as root to correct the problem:. To initiate or restart those services, you must manually stop the services and then restart the GroupWise agents. When a GroupWise agent creates a core file, it is always named core. However, it does support the SOAP protocol when running as root.

A security vulnerability exists in the GroupWise Windows Client API that can allow programmatic access to non-authorized email under certain conditions. The attacker must first authenticate to GroupWise and be a recipient of a shared folder from another user. The attacker could then exploit the vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to non-shared email in the mailbox of the sharer.

Users that have shared folders with other users can protect their e-mail by removing shared access until remedial steps have been completed. It is not necessary to delete the contents of the shared folders and they can be re-shared after the administrator has locked out older client versions.

Administrators should lock out earlier versions of the GroupWise client in ConsoleOne in post offices where shared folders are in use. Right-click each Post Office object, then click Properties. Select Minimum Client Release Version , specify 7. Repeat this procedure for each post office in your GroupWise system where shared folders are in use.

If you are running a mixed environment of GroupWise 6. The recommended release date should be 9 Mar in order to ensure that your system is not vulnerable. GroupWise is dependent on UDP for several key features such as listing new messages in your Mailbox, displaying notifications, and performing Busy Searches. If GroupWise 7 has already been installed on a workstation by an administrator user, and if a GroupWise 7 Support Pack is installed by a different administrator user, a second instance of GroupWise is installed and the first instance is not updated.

If GroupWise is listed twice, remove the obsolete instance. If you send a message with a subject only no message body , a global signature is not appended. This is working as designed. GroupWise might not handle iCal attachments correctly if they are received from a non-GroupWise external system. Because of this, such appointments display in the Appointment pane instead of the All-Day-Events pane. Currently there is no way to set one computer as a primary archive.

This can result in multiple archives if you use GroupWise on different computers. In Online mode, if you have been granted rights to modify a distribution list, you can edit that distribution list in the GroupWise Address Book. However, if you go into the Address Selector in a new message, you can administer the distribution list from there. If you use ClearType to smooth the edges of screen fonts and have an LCD display, your screen might flicker when scrolling in a text message.

You must manually close GroupWise to switch modes. The address books do not display in GroupWise if you install GroupWise for the first time after you have installed Outlook To resolve the problem, uninstall Outlook before you install GroupWise for the first time.

After your account has been moved from one post office to another, your Notify alarms disappear for appointments. To get your Notify alarms back, you need to re-create all the alarms manually. For information on setting alarms for appointments, see the GroupWise client help.

If you have spyware detection software installed on your Windows computer, the GroupWise client for Windows might not install properly.

Disable the spyware detection software before you install the GroupWise client for Windows. To eliminate this problem, you need to disable the VMware adapters on your Windows workstation. Right-click My Network Places , then click Properties. If you receive an item that was forwarded from the GroupWise Connector for Outlook, the item does not open in the Macintosh version of the Cross-Platform client.

If you run the Cross-Platform client in Caching mode as root on Linux, you might encounter synchronization problems with your master mailbox when you next run as a regular user. If pending requests from the root session remain when you log in as a regular user, regular user requests get backed up behind the root requests, which cannot be processed while you are logged in as a regular user.

To resolve any problems, run the client as root again so that all messages are synchronized, then run as a regular user thereafter to prevent further problems. If you have installed Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer on your Macintosh, new messages might not display as bold in your mailbox. Archiving with the Cross-Platform client can only be done to your local computer hard drive. When prompted to rebuild your database, there is no progress indicator displayed during the rebuild process.

When you click Reply on Macintosh, you cannot just type the message. You must move the mouse cursor to the message body window of the reply message before you can start typing.

If you run the Outlook Connector Setup program in this environment, you receive the following message:. Before GroupWise 7. For example, you could install a new version of the WebAccess Application on your Web server while still running the previous version of the WebAccess Agent for the domain. Starting in GroupWise 7. Long-term use of the mixed-version configuration is not recommended.

If you access the WebAccess client through Virtual Office 1. Before GroupWise 7, WebAccess stored its default user interface files in the following directory on the Web server:. In GroupWise 7, the user interface files are stored in the css subdirectory of templates rather than the frames subdirectory. Refer to the Novell exteNd documentation to determine which exteNd template files you should copy to the css directory. The results are unpredictable, including not being able to compose an item, reply, and so on.

To resolve such problems, users need to clear the browser cache and then log in to the WebAccess client again. If the WebAccess login page appears in one or more of the frames for example, the Folder list or the Item list after a WebAccess user has successfully logged in, the user is probably accessing WebAccess through one or more proxy servers.

For information about this option, click Help on the Environment page. This is working as designed for security reasons. Very occasionally, a pop-up blocker can prevent you from opening messages in the WebAccess client. If this happens, you can turn off the pop-up blocker or use a different one. Many pop-up blockers are available. The maximum memory allocation is set by using the -Xmx parameter when starting Tomcat for example, -Xmxm. There is no confidential information located in any of the directories that are accessible in this manner.

However, if you want to prevent access, you can change the configuration of your Web server. For example, if you are using Apache, you can modify the httpd. Locate the section that provides directory options for the htdocs directory. Either remove the Indexes option from the Options directive or place a minus - in front of it. Restart Apache to put the change into effect.

Under certain very specific circumstances, it is possible for a user to view WebAccess template files from a Web browser without logging in to WebAccess. There is no confidential information located in any of the template files that are accessible in this manner. Starting with GroupWise 6. With this setting, unauthenticated users have no access to any WebAccess template files except for the Login page. If you have customized WebAccess templates for your own specialized use, this setting causes your templates to be inaccessible, even if GroupWise authentication was not previously required.

You can turn off the authentication requirement by changing the line in the webacc. If you have created your own customized versions of the WebAccess send. Do not use the Url. Instead, use Item. When issuing an Item. Read action for a reply, set the Item. In GroupWise 7, the GroupWise 6. Some users for whom the GroupWise 7 WebAccess client performance was unacceptably slow returned to using the GroupWise 6.

Because the performance issues in the WebAccess client have been resolved in GroupWise 7 Support Packs, the Installation program does the following when you install the WebAccess 7 software from a Support Pack over the original GroupWise 7 software:. Installs the new css template files to the templates directory of your Web server.

If you were using the GroupWise 6. Update to the latest version of Internet Explorer to avoid the problem. Press F5 Refresh to redisplay the Address Book. The cache created by the Document Viewer Agent is not compatible with the cache previously used with WebPublisher. Old WebPublisher cache directories should be removed from servers where the Viewer Agent is installed. The Document Viewer Agent startup file gwdva.

If you receive an error during installation indicating that the nvweb. If you install the WebAccess Agent as a Windows service, reboot the server, and then do a workstation login as an Administrator, the WebAccess Agent service might fail to start.

If this occurs, update to the latest Novell Client. Because WebAccess installs and configures its own Tomcat and Jakarta connector, it is preferable to install it on a server where Tomcat is not already in use by another program.

WebAccess might stop responding for a period of time on NetWare. It might or might not resume operation. To resolve this problem, update to the latest Winsock patch available on the Novell Downloads site. If the GroupWise 6. Under certain circumstances, the WebAccess Installation program cannot stop them for you. Follow the instructions below for your Web server. On NetWare 6, the Apache configuration file is gwapache.

On NetWare 6. Under the servlet subdirectory, create a subdirectory named webacc. If you use WebPublisher, create a second subdirectory named webpub. Under Default Web Sites , you should see the servlet subdirectory you created in Step 2.

Expand the servlet subdirectory to display the webacc subdirectory and optionally, the webpub subdirectory that you created in Step 3. Right-click the webacc subdirectory, then click Properties. If you use WebPublisher, repeat Step 7 through Step 9 , using webpub in place of webacc.

For redirection instructions, search the Novell Support Web site. Therefore, you might want to manually delete the following directories and files:. You should definitely delete web. Also, if you have customized the GroupWise template files, you should copy the contents of the template subdirectories under:. When using Internet Explorer 5. By default, 5 processes are started. On NetWare, you must install the latest Support Pack for your version of NetWare in order to have the correct version of clib.

You should periodically delete these files. Installation instructions that compensate for these differences are available in TID in the Novell Support Knowledgebase.

GroupWise 7 on Linux includes a Novell distribution of Apache and Tomcat that you can install along with the WebAccess Application if you do not already have Apache and Tomcat running on that server. The WebAccess Installation program lets you choose whether you want to install the Novell distribution.

Select Install WebAccess Application if you do not want to install the Novell distribution of Apache and Tomcat because you have an existing Apache and Tomcat installation that you want to use with WebAccess. If you install the Novell distribution on a server where a standard distribution of Apache and Tomcat is already installed and running, you will encounter a port conflict on port You can resolve the port conflict by choosing to run one distribution or the other, or you can reconfigure one distribution or the other.

To reconfigure the Novell distribution to use a different port number, edit the httpd. Locate the following line:. Change the port number to a something that is not already being used on the server, then save and exit the file. However, it is currently not listed in the webac70a. On Linux, if you run the Viewer Agent as a user that is not running The X Window system, then WebAccess client users cannot view embedded vector-based graphics in attachments.

One way to accomplish this is to use the sux command to become root before you start the WebAccess Agent. On Linux, the third-party viewer software used by the Viewer Agent has a dependency on libXm. To resolve this, create a symbolic link in the agents lib directory to the version of the libXm modules that is available on your Linux server.

Some manual configuration is required. If you have commented out any lines in the Linux WebAccess configuration file webacc. If you use the Configure WebAccess Application option in the Installation program, those commented lines become uncommented and the settings return to their defaults.

However, any other changes you have made to the configuration files are retained. You must comment out the lines again and edit the settings as needed, using the backup copies for reference.

In Firefox on Linux, the horizontal scroll bar in the left panel of the WebAccess client help displays in the middle of the column instead of at the bottom. It does not interfere with help functionality. In GroupWise 6 and its Support Packs, there was a problem with the address format used for sending to distribution lists and resources if you set Internet Addressing to one of the following formats which are not appropriate for distribution lists and resources :. Messages to distribution lists and resources were initially undeliverable and were sent to the Internet Agent.

The Internet Agent then successfully resolved the addresses and sent the messages back into the GroupWise system. Users did not notice the problem, but some administrators noticed unnecessary traffic through the Internet Agent. In GroupWise 6. However, users who originally used GroupWise 6 have the erroneous address format for distribution lists and resources in their Frequent Contacts address books. If you are updating from GroupWise 6 to GroupWise 7 and unnecessary traffic through the Internet Agent is a continuing problem, have users delete distribution lists and resources from their Frequent Contacts address books so that the correct address format is used for name completion in the future.

GroupWise 6. If you try to start the Linux Internet Agent using the --show switch on a server where The X Window System and Open Motif are not running, you receive the following error:.

If you start the Internet Agent without the --show switch, you can use the Internet Agent Web console to monitor the Internet Agent from your Web browser. If the location of the Monitor template files is inadvertently changed, then you cannot start GroupWise Monitor. To resolve the problem:. Locate the Templates. Path line and correct the path as needed. In the Template Path field, correct the path as needed, then click OK.

When the correct template path has been supplied in the gwmonitor. Monitor settings are stored in the monitor. Agent groups are also stored in this file. If you reinstall the Monitor software, the monitor. To restore previous Monitor settings and agent groups, remove the newly installed monitor.

This differs from the other GroupWise agents, which take a. The PEM format combines the certificate and key in a single file. Follow the instructions in Section 9. If you have installed interim releases of Monitor between Support Pack 1 and Support Pack 2, and if you are installing Monitor on a server where other GroupWise agents are also running, you might receive the following error message:. In a terminal window, uninstall the Monitor Application by using the following command:.

This command removes the Monitor Application from the RPM database so that it does not interfere with the installation of the other GroupWise components on the server. Reinstall the Monitor Application individually, and do not select the Configure option in the GroupWise Installation program.

Monitor and WebAccess share a substantial amount of functionality. The following WebAccess issues also pertain to Monitor:. This causes occasional problems in some languages where GroupWise 6. Under Database Type , select Post Office.

In the Database Path field, browse to and select the post office directory. In the Action drop-down list, select Reset Client Options. Click Run to perform the conversion of user and resource databases from UTF-8 to the selected character set. However, the GroupWise client login does not allow entry of double-byte characters in passwords, so a user who was assigned a password with double-byte characters in ConsoleOne cannot type the double-byte characters when attempting to log in to GroupWise.

If you do not see the localized languages in the drop-down menu on the Web services page index. You might also encounter character encoding problems when reading HTML-formatted messages. When Russian characters are used, they are displayed in the Spell Checker as corrupt characters. This is a browser problem, not a GroupWise problem. There is no workaround.