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GroupWise has an outstanding engine that runs on Linux and Windows servers. Novell only charges you for the mailbox license, and everything else (WebAccess, ActiveSync, Gateways, Linux OS) is at no additional cost compared to Exchange. You can spin up as many GroupWise servers and services as you see fit, to complete you collaboration system. You are not charged extra for X instances of a back-end service. Here are some PDF's on GroupWise and Exchange topics. GroupWise 2012 today has a very clean ' solution that makes the two collaboration systems look as one to the end users. Note: The next major release of GroupWise (code name 'Windermere') will be shipping at the end of 2013.

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No more Novell eDirectory is required with this next release AND you can optionally use Microsoft AD or Novell eDirectory via LDAP for email account provisioning. The administration will also be 100% browser based through the RESTful APIs. I find it pretty amusing that someone would call using Micrsoft Exchange 'thinking out of the box'. Last time I saw the figures there were about 800 million corporate Exchange mailboxes in use. Seems more like following the crowd than thinking out of the box. We've used GroupWise for the last 13 years, mostly because of the reliability, uptime, ease of administration, and security it provides. In that 13 years we have never had a virus e-mail itself to people in someone's address book.

Our parent company may push us to go to Exchange, to integrate the mail system among all their business units. There will be a lot of work to do to work around all the GroupWise features we use that Exchange doesn't have, like workflow routing slips, enhanced proxy abilities (which can also be used through web access), the ability to view over 600 types of file attachments without having the native program installed on your computer, the ability to silently retract mail and easy administration. I expect Exchange will have most of these features sometime in the future, as Microsoft seems to typically implement the features and technologies found in Novell products three or four years later. Exchange itself came out a few years after GroupWise, and Active Directory came out in 1999, 6 years after Novell's directory services. Incidentally, I just restarted my GroupWise server the other day.

It didn't need to be restarted, but it had been up 337 days and I try to remember to restart my Novell servers at least once a year:). We just completed having our GW yanked from us and we were pushed on to corporate Outlook. AVI-NetworkGuy I am sorry but what is that useful functionality that one can only get from GroupWise, please enlighten me.

GroupWise was the king of its time but its time has passed long ago. I have worked on both system and migrated number of system over to Exchange. The only people hanging onto GroupWise are those do not want to learn something new or advance rather force the user to fit in with the product instead of deploying a product that fit in with users. Give you one example how do you work with GroupWise client on mobile device connected via 4 G or 3 G on moving train and unstable internet connection.

Oh wait you use GroupWise web client but again its crap. Learn How awesome Outlook and Exchange work using OST file cache on local PC for mobile devices and this is just one good thing out many. I wish Novell had keep up GroupWise with the rest of the IT world but those loser did not. But feel free to enlighten me with specific GroupWise functionality.

Scott3155 these problem don't exit in the system, what is your Exchange version and outlook client. Are you using the outlook web client or you have desktop version installed. What do you mean by filter out the extension, are you running mail box search or what.?

I am not here to proof you wrong because these problem are more related to user than Exchange and outlook but to help you out to get you up to the speed. Peter4143 Exchange have all of these features and additional features that GroupWise may eventually catch up one day. ' There will be a lot of work to do to work around all the GroupWise features we use that Exchange doesn't have, like workflow routing slips, enhanced proxy abilities (which can also be used through web access), the ability to view over 600 types of file attachments without having the native program installed on your computer, the ability to silently retract mail and easy administration. I expect Exchange will have most of these features sometime in the future, as Microsoft seems to typically implement the features and technologies found in Novell products three or four years later. Exchange itself came out a few years after GroupWise, and Active Directory came out in 1999, 6 years after Novell's directory services.' In terms of restarting GroupWise server you old folks pushing this line every time.

Well I have not restarted Exchange servers on client site for over a year now since I have deployed them. But not only this I have dismounted the DB with 400 mail boxes on it move the VM to a different data store, remount it after doing an update on the server without a single second downtime for all of my users. Let me know if you can do the same with GroupWise cluster.

By the way I am looking forward to see discovery and In place archive functionality in GroupWise in next 20 years hope fully if it is still around. @fahadmahmood, you quoted Peter4143's partial message about some features that he states are nor part, or possible with Exchange/Outlook, such as workflow routing slips, meaning you can see who received, opened, forwarded or deleted an email with GroupWise, or the ability to retract a message that you want to edit again or did not mean to send. Some of us are now being migrated to Outlook from GroupWise, and these are just a couple of features that I've been used to for the last 20 years, with GroupWise, you seem very knowledgeable about Exchange, so my question to you is, how do I accomplish this in Exchange/Outlook? Also, in GroupWise, we use the 'Reminder Note,' for example to let each other know that we're going on vacation, for instance, we can then create a rule that automatically accepts those notes, and they show up in our calendars as 'Notes.'

That shows who's out of the office, for instance w/o much work. During the migration, Exchange/Outlook is showing me those 'notes' as appointments?

All-day events? Or something. I click on 'Accept', but it wants me to send a reply to the sender, it's not needed. So, how does one accomplish these tasks with Outlook/Exchange, let alone on Linux? You don't seem to think that the Web interface for Outlook is all that. I must admit that I'm not thrilled with Outlook so far, but it's policy now, seems very limited in its set of features for being such a popular email system. Thanks for the feedback, I really would like to be able to do those few things in Outlook that are such old features in GroupWise, there's got to be an easy way to do that, right? Your help is much appreciated!!.

Thank you for the opportunity jayarvitt, while I acknowledge that they are two different systems and therefore there is always going to be variations after all Exchange / Outlook is not GroupWise upgrade. I do agree Exchange / Outlook effects limit users for doing their job in effective manner. There are three basic reasons for been unsatisfactory with outlook after migration. Novell’s propaganda in an attempt to save some revenue 2. Lack of training 3. And admit it most of us hate change.

I will try to answer few of your point above but perhaps you may want to attend outlook training. @fahadmahmood, Thank you, so much!! Your detailed answer will give me a chance to let people know that we have options, albeit different from what we were used to, that can help us to do our work and keep each other informed. It looks like Exchange/Outlook can do quite a bit of things, and not many people are aware of it, at least not around here.

The only drawback I see, is that there's not an Outlook client for Linux (openSuSE), so I've had to install a VM with Windows and use IE for the Web client from there. The Web client runs on Chrome, on Linux, but the interface difference is significant compared to IE. It actually looks cleaner under Chrome, but there's no context menu per message, for example, as in IE. Anyway, thanks again for the explanation, and maybe someone out there can come up with an Outlook client that runs on Mono(.NET) which run on openSuSE/SLES. Yes that is correct MS office is only available using MAC or Windows.

But if your end devices operate on Linux then not sure why you would deploy exchange. Also one option is to enable IMAP on your mail box on exchange than you can use with any mail client that support IMAP. Outlook anywhere will only work with outlook.

If your work provided Citrix then you can use outlook from Linux desktop using citirx. Citrix can even publish outlook as an app on your Linux desktop and it will work like its install on Linux it self without any drama. Hope this help.

Fahadmahmood wrote: AVI-NetworkGuy I am sorry but what is that useful functionality that one can only get from GroupWise, please enlighten me. GroupWise was the king of its time but its time has passed long ago. I have worked on both system and migrated number of system over to Exchange. The only people hanging onto GroupWise are those do not want to learn something new or advance rather force the user to fit in with the product instead of deploying a product that fit in with users. Give you one example how do you work with GroupWise client on mobile device connected via 4 G or 3 G on moving train and unstable internet connection.

Oh wait you use GroupWise web client but again its crap. Mpeg streamclip for mac. Learn How awesome Outlook and Exchange work using OST file cache on local PC for mobile devices and this is just one good thing out many. I wish Novell had keep up GroupWise with the rest of the IT world but those loser did not. But feel free to enlighten me with specific GroupWise functionality. Erm GroupWise 2014 client in caching mode does exactly this, and has done since at least version 5.5 Plus with GMS on GroupWise 2014 you can connect to GroupWise via ActiveSync using Outlook 2013, Windows Phone, iPhone or Android.

Outlook has proven to be the biggest disappointment so far. It's only been a few months, but I'm not impressed at all. This thing is so messed up that even when you 'logout' out of the web client, it doesn't log you out. I tried to follow the advice here from several people and from other forums, but Outlook may be a great thing for people who don't do much with, or don't rely on email as much as some of us do. The interface is terrible, not intuitive enough. I'll give you one example that to me is extremely exasperating.

I want to create a new email to a colleague that I've never sent an email from Outlook before; so, I position the cursor at the 'To:' field and start typing the guy's name, and guess what happens? I know the guy is in the address book, but his name will NOT show up right away.

I have to click on the 'To:' link, a new pop-up window show up, then I have to do a search in that window, and then look at the bottom of the window, where there's another 'To -' link, click it, and the new contact name will be shown there, after that, you click on 'OK', and ONLY THEN, will the new name show up in my message's 'To:' field. Who in the world was the genius who came up with this crap? @fahadmahmood, gave me some suggestions on how to replicate the 'Reminder Note' feature of Groupwise in Outlook, but it doesn't really work as I expected. Reminder Notes are NOT meant to be all-day appointments.

We use reminder notes in Groupwise, for example, to say: 'JAY: Dr. Appt @ 10:00 am, b back@ 11:30 am', or something like: 'JAY: Coming in late, around 9:30 am.'

Nobody has to accept nothing, there's no conflict resolution to address, no replies are required, no need to create templates or develop my own, no calendar thing to deal with, none of that, that's a waste of time. I just want to let a few number of people, or just my team, or just my manager and director what to expect from me at a certain time on a given day, I don't want appointments in my calendar. I'm not ranting because I want Groupwise back, what is done is done, but if Outlook was supposed to be a better choice, it has certainly proven to be a tremendous waste of time, and it has some major security holes that need to be fixed.

I don't know if Groupwise was a headache to deal with for IT, maybe it was, but as a developer end-user, it was a great tool, and it worked. I've setup about 37 rules in Outlook to place email in their corresponding folders, only 9 of those rules work, and there's no typo, syntax, or anything obvious enough that you can say, 'of course' that's what the problem is, that's why my rule ain't working. Grouwpise rules can get very complex, but the damn thing actually works. Let's not get into archiving because to this day, nobody has been able to migrate my archives to Outlook, the migrating tool simply doesn't work, and my archive is actually on Windows.

Again, it's only been a few months, but like @fahadmahmood said it, what were these suits thinking when they asked us to migrate to Outlook when we use Linux, and even the Windows client leaves much to be desired. Waste of money if you ask me to move from what was paid for to Outlook, which doesn't really deliver with the basic stuff. I'm hoping their web client improves 'cause right now, it's truly a POS. I was holding hope, considering that Outlook has been the favorite of many, but not impressed at all here with it at this point in time.%uFEFF.

I noticed in this thread that the Pro-exchange people seemed to be very quick to discount the power and features that Groupwise administrators and users utilize on a daily basis. Although Exchange is popular and enjoys millions of seats, it seems realistic to give competing technologies their due consideration. Seeing comments like 'Groupwise people can't learn or unwilling to change' is not entirely fair.

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Change just for the sake of change doesn't seem prudent. When a system works very well, has all the features necessary for an organization to work, and does some of the functions better than Exchange, give the system credit. If the technology that Novell created and has upgraded over the years ceased to function, people would be less likely to use it. I have used both clients (Groupwise and Outlook). I have a preference.

Doesn't mean the Outlook people are wrong.just not my choice.:) I'm looking forward to the next release of Groupwise with the support for OS X using protocols such as CardDav and CalDav. To my knowledge, that is not currently available in Exchange. If I am incorrect, I am willing to stand corrected.

I know this is an older post but. I support a lot of environments that are Exchange, Office365, and yes. I just implemented a NEW! Groupwise 2014 install last year. You asked a valid question. Who in their right mind?

Well, we had a meeting with the management staff for this client. We were all prepared to go all in on Exchange 2013 (converting from an existing IMAP based solution).

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Then M$ came along with one of their infamous SAM audits. That changed the conversation dramatically.

While the client was 98% compliant (they ALWAYS find some way to get you to spend money on a SAM audit), it left a very bad taste in their mouth. We started talking about our real use of MS Office in the organization. They are a manufacturing company, and about 40% of the users have very infrequent use of Word/Excel/Powerpoint, but they almost all needed email. We discussed the webmail angle. We looked at our licensing needs, and determined that if we broke our Microsoft addiction, we could switch most users over to LibreOffice, and go Groupwise for email.

Furthermore, if you haven't noticed, M$ is moving everyone to a subscription based model for Office licensing, $$$$, and is practically forcing companies to move to Office365 cloud based email solutions. This client doesn't want their email in the cloud (personal preference). They also don't want a constant drip of money going out the door to M$!

A year later, we are still happy with the decision. It isn't perfect for sure. Feature familiarity (training) has the biggest issue, mostly for users coming from other companies that have grown up on Outlook. Feature-wise, we haven't found any significant missing functionality with Groupwise compared to Exchange Outlook.

Our Groupwise servers are distributed over several SUSE Linux servers, which run reliably, and rarely need reboots. Because our functionality is distributed, we can do upgrades a plant at a time, without nuking our entire email system. A few months ago, I needed to move a Post Office server to another Hyper-V clustered host. I had neglected to set a persistent mac address when I set that server up, and that required a shutdown/reboot (rare).

It took me less than one minute to shutdown the server, change the mac, and have it booted back up and servicing clients again. When was the last time you rebooted an exchange server in under a minute? We just upgraded Groupwise to 2014R2 Hot fix. Did the entire upgrade in under two hours. I can't remember the last time I could complete an Exchange upgrade in less than six-eight hours. I also don't live in fear of mass-email security threats. Few (none?) viruses target Groupwise client.

My users can walk up to ANY workstation, and log into Groupwise as themselves, without having to log off windows from the current user. When they are done, they log off, and it didn't leave behind any residual files on the station.

That has been GREAT for our manufacturing floor workstations / production supervisors. Again, while not perfect, it is a lot less stress, and a lot less TCO than my Exchange sites have to deal with. So before you declare Exchange to be the final and only solution to email, know that there are those of us out here who are not drinking the Kool-Aid, and manage to get.

The following are the new features and enhancements in the GroupWise 18.1 release:. Find Updates: Find is now easier to use and pops out from the left of the client. QuickViewer Smart Sizing: QuickViewer now has three different sizes, depending on the content of the email you are viewing. Each size can be customized. Main Window Settings: Navigation Bar actions have been consolidated under one “Settings” button, along with some additional options. File Upload Applet: The applet has been upgraded to HTML5-based functionality. Reset System Folders: System Folders can now be reset to default.

Micro Focus has released a new version of GroupWise®: GroupWise 18, in conjunction with Enterprise Messaging, the evolution of GroupWise. The following are the new features and enhancements included in GroupWise 18:. Integrated Messenger administration in GroupWise administration console. Single user provisioning for GroupWise and Messenger that supports Active Directory.

Integration with Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway 7 (formerly known as GWAVA). Deeper Micro Focus Filr integration, with support for sending Filr attachments as Filr Public Links—further reducing the size of the GroupWise message store. New Feature: Social threading.

Replies to email roll up underneath the parent message with notification badges—reducing email clutter in your in-box GroupWise 18 is also an integral component of the new Micro Focus product that is also available. Micro Focus Enterprise Messaging contains:. GroupWise 18. GroupWise TeamWorks 18. Micro Focus Retain. Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway. GroupWise Disaster Recovery.

GroupWise Forensics. GroupWise Mailbox Management Micro Focus Enterprise Messaging is a complete collaboration solution that provides your organization with email, scheduling, instant messaging, chat-based teamwork, security, archiving, backup, and disaster recovery.

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Enterprise Messaging enables your employees to collaborate anytime, anywhere, on any device while maintaining security and meeting compliance. GroupWise 18 can be downloaded through the for all customers with active maintenance contracts. Micro Focus has released a new version of GroupWise: GroupWise 2014 R2 SP2 in conjunction with GroupWise Mobility Service 2014 R2 SP2. Building on the great base of GroupWise 2014 R2, Service Pack 1 has key new features and enhancements that are sure to please.