Coming this Fall: GroupWise 7

By Jason Gutierrez, Network Computing Services, GroupWise Messaging Specialist

The folks at Novell have spent a lot of time and effort to bring you an even more robust and feature rich messaging system. Currently, Network Computing Services is testing the public beta for GroupWise 7 with much success, and anticipates no problems with deploying this update to the UNT computing community this fall. Below is a list of some of the features that you can expect from GroupWise 7.

Macintosh OSX and Linux Clients with spell checking, junk mail handling, archiving and more...

Redesigned look and feel.

New navigation bar* allows users to quickly switch between areas of GroupWise

Calendar addition and removal*

Simultaneous calendar view option*

All-day and multi-day appointments*

WebAccess, including wireless license and near feature parity with Windows Client*

PDA cradle synchronization*

Novell Evolution client support*

Microsoft Outlook support (includes support for e-mail, tasks, notes, calendaring, busy search, shared folders, today view,

ActiveSync, .pst files, offline mode, delegated support, signatures and personal and system address books)*
Support for GroupWise on NetWare®, Windows* and Linux* servers (both SUSE™ LINUX Enterprise Server and Red Hat*)

More information and screen shots can be found online at: http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/newrelease.html

Meanwhile, check out the GroupWise 6.5 Tutorials

A list of GroupWise 6.5 "Tutorial Topics" can be found here: http://ncs.unt.edu/gw/howto/index.htm

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