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A Comprehensive Guide to the Different Versions of GroupWise Email Platform
GroupWise has been a leader in collaboration technology for over three decades, and throughout its history, it has been at the forefront of innovation, constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of organizations. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the different versions of GroupWise, from its first release in 1989 to the latest version in 2020, and highlight some of the key features and advancements that have made it a leading collaboration platform.
GroupWise 1.0 (1989) – The first version of GroupWise was released as a basic email system for WordPerfect users. It provided users with the ability to send and receive email messages, manage their address book, and schedule appointments. Despite its basic functionality, GroupWise 1.0 was groundbreaking in its ability to provide email capabilities to users of the WordPerfect platform, which was one of the most popular productivity software packages of the time.
GroupWise 2.0 (1991) – With the release of GroupWise 2.0, Novell began to evolve the platform into a more comprehensive collaboration tool. This release added features such as task management, allowing users to track and manage their to-do list within the GroupWise platform. GroupWise 2.0 also added support for multiple platforms, including MS-DOS and OS/2, making it a versatile solution for organizations using a variety of computing platforms.
GroupWise 4.1 (1994) – GroupWise 4.0 marked a major milestone in the platform’s evolution, as Novell introduced a new architecture that allowed GroupWise to scale to meet the needs of large organizations. This release added support for mobile access, allowing users to stay connected to their GroupWise account while on the go. GroupWise 4.0 also added web access capabilities, allowing users to access their GroupWise account from any web browser. These advancements helped to make GroupWise a more accessible and convenient collaboration platform for users.
GroupWise 5.0 (1996) – With GroupWise 5.0, Novell continued to expand the platform’s capabilities, Continue reading
Micro Focus GroupWise 2014 R2 Upgrade
Micro Focus GroupWise 2014 R2 Upgrade
This past weekend, I upgraded my GroupWise server to Micro Focus GroupWise 2014 R2. The upgrade was pretty quick and painless, about an hour and a half, Of that almost half was downloading the Micro Focus GroupWise 2014 R2 Upgrade and uploading it to the server. Now the upgrade is done, I’ll spend the week playing with it before upgrading my client’s systems.
Below is listed the new features and the upgrade steps.
Release – Micro Focus released GroupWise 2014 R2 Upgrade on December 9, 2015
Features – New features introduced with R2
- GroupWise Mac support: CalDAV and CardDAV support will provide the ability to use the Mac Calendar and Mac Contacts apps in addition to existing IMAP support for Mac Mail.
- Invite to appointments: Even if you aren’t the organizer, you can invite others to appointments. A notification is sent to both the organizer and invitee after an invitation to keep everyone in the loop.
- Propose a new time: When you receive a meeting invitation you can’t accept, you can simply propose a different time with the assistance of a busy search.
- Bidirectional flag sync: Now when you flag a message on your mobile device, it will appear on your desktop and vice versa.
- Other usability features, /b> such as Quick Responses and Voting, will improve communication and productivity.
- Additionally, GroupWise 2014 R2 offers Active Directory single sign-on support Continue reading
Rotating Images and Files on Webpage
Continue to work on getting my website updated. It is fun learning new things as I work on the site. Ive added rotating images to my pages as well as the background using the rotate.php script from Dan P. Benjamin, Automatic, Ltd. The script is very simple to implement copy the file into the directory with your images then call it from your page or from the css file to rotate the background. Dan P. Benjamin, Automatic, Ltd. random image rotator.
Sample entry for css file:
background: url(images/random-images/rotate.php);
Sample entry for webpage:
<p align=”center”><img src=”images/photography/rotate.php” alt=”random photos” width=”375″ height=”315″ /></p>
To provide a random id for the images Continue reading
GroupWise 2012 not receiving mail
This is a strange error!!! I updated my OES server Sunday with the latest patches, everything seemed to be running fine after the system rebooted. I found out this morning the users were unable to send mail to Internet addresses, even though everyone was receiving mail. To explain the system in is a GroupWise 2012 running on an OES2 SP3, SLES10 SP4 Linux box, with GWAVA for mail security. I checked the system and it looked like everything should be working. So I stared by restarting Continue reading
GroupWise 2012 Upgrade
Novell announced the release of GroupWise 2012, Tuesday January 25 2012. So being a GroupWise devoted admin/user I made plans for a weekend upgrade of my mail system. So Saturday morning I took a deep breath and started my upgrade. A note here that upgrades of the GroupWise back end normally are pretty painless, but you always have to watchout for Murphy. So the first step was to make two backups of my GroupWise system, the first was with a custom backup script that backup my post offices using dbcopy and allows the backup to be done Continue reading
New Malware Infection
Had a client with a system that was infected with an new strain of malware. It was identified as Trojan.Win32.Genome.arbx and was infecting the svchost.exe.
The system was running Windows XP Kaspesky Antivirus 2011. The client complaint was that the system had been locking up and running slow. Initial contact with the system was remotely. Initial check show that the Kaspersky was was running and the database were up to date.
I checked the task manager and found 6 iexplorer processes running without a user interface. Attempts to kill the process would restart a new process. I updated Malwarebytes, Ran a scan Continue reading
Move WordPress Database
Move WordPress Database
My WordPress database was initially installed in a shared database with four other WordPress installations. I wanted to move my blog to its own database so that it would be easier to backup and restore.
To Move WordPress Database, you need to place your WordPress into maintenance mode so no changes are made while doing this.
In phpMyAdmin I selected the database, went to the export tab. Then I selected the tables that contained my WordPress installation, then export it to SQL format. I saved the exported database to my local hard drive. After the export, I opened the exported file with Notepad++ I edited the database name and any paths, and save it as a new file. (Note – always keep plenty of backups.)
After editing the file and verifying the changes. then open phpMyAdmin and create a new empty database. After creating the empty database, select the database and go to the import tab. Select the edited file and complete the import.
In your WordPress installation rename the wp-config.php, then open your blog. The installation page will appear, complete the database connection information and save, this is all that is required to connect to the new database. Login as admin and turn off maintenance mode. Your blog should be up and running in the same state it was in before the migration, (except in it”s own database). If it does not work go back and check everything and repeat the steps.
This should be able to be done in about thirty minutes.
After you have tested your installation and everything is working you can delete the old instance in the shared database. This is basically the same steps that you would use to move your WordPress to a new server.
Good luck 🙂
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Notepad++ keyboard shortcuts
Notepad++ Keyboard Shortcuts
Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP or XML. It just has so many useful little features. You can have all of the documents you need opened in one window and separated with tabs. You can have a 2nd workspace hidden within the same window, which is great when you are updating some code, you can have the original in one “view” and the new code in another view. The FIND feature of looking into all open documents, or documents in a directory is awesome to have if you are stuck on windows and don’t have cools tools like ‘find’ and ‘grep’ handy. I have also setup my own “language” that parses through Java error logs so that you can collapse each error and skip all of the “at ..” lines when not needed.
The TextFX plugins are awesome and the XML re-indent tool has been a real life saver and speeds up fixing messed up CSS sheets and other XML coding.
Read more to get a list of the Notepad++ keyboard shortcut keys.
Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys
Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys
Command Name Keyboard shortcuts ------------------------------------------------------------------- All Caps CTRL+SHIFT+A Annotation ALT+CTRL+M App Maximize ALT+F10 App Restore ALT+F5 Apply Heading1 ALT+CTRL+1 Apply Heading2 ALT+CTRL+2 Apply Heading3 ALT+CTRL+3 Apply List Bullet CTRL+SHIFT+L Auto Format ALT+CTRL+K Auto Text F3 or ALT+CTRL+V Bold CTRL+B or CTRL+SHIFT+B Bookmark CTRL+SHIFT+F5 Browse Next CTRL+PAGE DOWN Browse Previous CTRL+PAGE UP Browse Sel ALT+CTRL+HOME
Vim Cheat Sheet
Vim Commands Cheat Sheet |
How to Exit
| :q[uit] | Quit Vim. This fails when changes have been made. |
| :q[uit]! | Quit without writing. |
| :cq[uit] | Quit always, without writing. |
| :wq | Write the current file and exit. |
| :wq! | Write the current file and exit always. |
| :wq {file} | Write to {file}. Exit if not editing the last Continue reading |