Groupwise 7 with Outlook 2007

I had went through a lot of forum and knowledge base from Novell and others open forum, no 1 had really succeed to implement outlook 2007 with groupwise 7 in their experience. Here I would like to share how my success story related to outlook 2007 integration with groupwise 7.

I am currenly installed groupwise 7 sp3 in my windows xp sp3. Additional thing you need to install from there is the grouwise connector which you need to run it separately once the groupwise 7 sp3 client is successful install. Once you had done this, the groupwise is ready to work with outlook 2003. To get it work on outlook 2007, you will not able to get it work on enterprise office version. I had run to the problem to fix that is due to the build version different within office 2007 enterprise and professional. My success story is on Professional edition which run the build number of outlook 2007 (12.0.4518.1014). Although the patch is always important to keep your machine secure, in order to work with groupwise with outlook 2007, you shouldn't patch the security patches to the outlook 2007. You can still patch the rest of your office application.

If you had applied the office sp1 completely, the version number will change to (12.0.6320.5000). This will be the trouble version which you have problem with the calender, attachment and etc.

I had tested with more than 4 xp machines we have and confirm this solution is worked.

Outlook 2007 with groupwise 7 integration no longer a dream.

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.