Outlook 2003 with Groupwise Integration

The reason I wrote this article is to share my experience about the reason and How I get it work together from outlook 2003 to groupwise.

Before you do this, you have to ensure the groupwise client you had installed is run on version 7.1sp3 as minimum. Follow by that, of course you must have your outlook 2003 install and ready locally in you computer. If you had download your groupwise client from Novell website, you may need to unzip the source file. In the source file, you may see a folder call connector. This is an important item which will allow your outlook to integrate correctly with the groupwise. Browse to the connector folder and run the setup. Once you had completed, you can start to use your outlook to open your email, calender, attachment and etc.

In order to have your email cache for offline purpose in outlook, you may 1st configure the cache mailbox in your groupwise client, and configure the same path in your outlook. In that case, your outlook will able to be browse during offline. The reason you will want to have outlook ready, most of the time is because of the PDA, Mobile and gadgets synchronization issues. Not every device will able to synchronize with groupwise client as groupwise is not really the most famous email today.

This article should provide some idea to help those who want to have outlook 2003 integrate with their groupwise mailbox.