The New GroupWise Web Client
By Jason Gutierrez, Campus Wide Networks
Checking your GroupWise E-mail over the Web has taken on a new look. As of this fall, GroupWise Web 6 has been implemented as the Internet Web client. Web 6 is a welcome upgrade to GroupWise 5.5, with several new features.
In addition to it new modernized look and feel, Web 6 has added proxy access, rules, signature, and time zone (fig.1) to its list of features. Most notable of these enhancements is the addition of proxy access. Now you can grant proxy rights, and access another mailbox though proxy over the Web.
Proxy Access
If you are not familiar with proxy access, it is the ability to view the contents of another users GroupWise account. What you can view and do depends on the level of access granted to you (or that you grant to someone else). For instance you may grant rights to your calendar so that a specific user can only read your calendar, while giving another user the ability to post appointments to that calendar. Granting proxy access and rights can apply to all areas of your GroupWise account, mail, appointments, tasks, etc.
Figure 1, New options available in Web 6.
And there's more . . .
Other enhancements include:
- Mark items to be read later
- Add a signature to items
- Set WebAccess to the time zone they are in so that information that relies on dates and times will be based on their location rather than their post office's location
- Share folders with other users, add items to shared folders, and post messages to shared folders.
- Enable or disable existing rules; create new rules to delete, forward, move to a folder, reply to, or indicate vacation; delete rules.
- Create, delete, and modify personal address books
- Search on all available Address Book fields[1]
GroupWise Training
If you are interested in GroupWise training, Campus Wide Networks offers several classes each semester that covers the fundamentals of this messaging system. For information E-mail Jason Gutierrez at jasong@unt.edu. To sign up for classes contact human resources at 565-4246. Classes are held in ESSC room 152. For more information on what is new in GroupWise 6, visit the CWN Web site at: http://cwn.unt.edu/cwn/gw/gw6/whatsnew.html
[1] Novell, What's New in GroupWise 6 http://www.novell.com/documentation/lg/gw6/