Gw8 to gw2012

I installed a OES server in an existing Netware server tree
checked domain & po data
dbcopied the data
changed the paths in consoleone
installed gw2012
started the domain with --show switch
the domain show in cosoleone as 12
BUT....
the Status shows database has been recovered over 400 times!!
seems to be Recovering every 2mins
how can i find out what's causing this ?
.... and stop it!
(poa won't load and still showing GW8 )

> Some questions:
> -Did you perform a TDR on the GW8 system before moving/migrating the
> files to the OES/2012 system?
TDR ? Top Down Rebuild - NO
is this required or a good idea
(Not had to do it the last time I updated a system from NW to OES)
> -Which filesystem are you using on the OES server to host the GroupWise
> files?
Ext3 - I know NSS is prefrered but this is only a small 10 user system
> -Which OES version and patchlevel are you running?
OES11 - patches applied about a week ago
> -Did you check that the .dc files found in the Domain and PO directory
> match those found in the 2012 SDD/install media?
Yes - the domain DB shows GW8
The PO complains about old IP and old log path
I've checked the PO settings
If I remember - I had issues with PO just like this but it was fine once the
Domain databases updated
some 8 hours later
Dainta's book - it is reommended to load Domain and wait until DB update
message is shown
I'm not sure HOW long that should be - 8hours seems a LONG time
(po & domain in this case is 15Gb)
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>
> Brian;2193724 Wrote:
>> I installed a OES server in an existing Netware server tree
>> checked domain & po data
>> dbcopied the data
>> changed the paths in consoleone
>> installed gw2012
>>
>> started the domain with --show switch
>> the domain show in cosoleone as 12
>> BUT....
>>
>> the Status shows database has been recovered over 400 times!!
>>
>> seems to be Recovering every 2mins
>>
>> how can i find out what's causing this ?
>> .... and stop it!
>>
>> (poa won't load and still showing GW8 )
>
> From your post I'm assuming you have one domain with one po configured
> in it.
>
> Some questions:
> -Did you perform a TDR on the GW8 system before moving/migrating the
> files to the OES/2012 system?
> -Which filesystem are you using on the OES server to host the GroupWise
> files?
> -Which OES version and patchlevel are you running?
> -Did you check that the .dc files found in the Domain and PO directory
> match those found in the 2012 SDD/install media?
>
> -Willem
>
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Leading up to migrating our GW8 to GW2012 I need to move our GW8 system to a GW2012 supported OS as the old one is running on SLES10.2 with OES2sp1.
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Hello everyone,
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ItemReply(7;1;"message-id")
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GW2012 PO problems after upgrade

Last weekend I finished off the upgrade of our Primary Domain and Post Offices to GW2012 (OES11) from GW8 (NW8). The MTA and 4 remote site post offices had been done prior and had mostly been working fine - segfault issue with one PO. The final 3 (and largest) post offices were done over the weekend. The MTA and these three post offices are clustered on VMWare 4.1. The remote sites are on physical servers. All are OES11 using NSS for the GroupWise volume.
Prior to the post offices being moved, the MTA had not skipped a beat and the two cluster servers behaved. Once the PO's were loaded there have constant lock ups/crashes and subsequent DB corruptions. This occurs after the POA's are loaded for the two largest PO's. Using TOP I noticed that the load average would creep up and up until the whole system had a heart attack.
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I was thinking of doing a top down rebuild and unless i'm given a very good reason why not too, i'm going to leave the quickfinder indexing off until the school holidays when I can investigate further.
I suppose what I'm asking is what more do you suggest I can do to stabilise the system? What should I do regarding the quickfinder indexing?
A few other issues we've noted that we hope someone might be able to shed some lights on
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Thanks is advance for any help
Cheers
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On 21.06.2012 07:36, emilym wrote:
>
> Hi Andy
>
> Thanks for the reply, sorry it's taken so long to respond, sick email,
> sick kids and sick me don't make for a fast response to anything.
>
> Many things have happened since last week so i'll try and cover it all
>
> First in answer to your questions
> *The VM's originally had 2 cores and 4Gb RAM (they now have 8Gb)
> *Novell Cluster Services is involved
> *The vNIC is listed as 'flexible' in vSphere, Yast lists it as PCnet -
> Fast 79C971, using the pcnet32 driver
> *And yes 'noatime' and 'no salvage' were set
> *The PO's are approximately 250Gb, 300Gb and 35Gb
>
> Since my first message, we've come to the conclusion that it's not the
> quickfinder indexing causing the problem, as the PO's crashed again on
> the Friday, and Saturday, and Tuesday. As of this time I have not turned
> it back on.
>
> After much work over the weekend I had thought the problem was related
> to the GW requests not being serviced quick enough by the disk, causing
> the corruptions, but that has also since been discounted (using nsscon
> /ZLSSIOStatus)
>
>
> SYMPTOMS/ISSUES/OBSERVATIONS
>
> *GroupWise will hang on a C/S thread, this causes the PO/POA to stop
> servicing new requests. Additionally the server will continue to consume
> resources (Ram) until the server becomes unresponsive.
>
> *The cluster server is unable to unload the shared disk this causes
> automatic migration to fail. Further investigation revealed that the
> eDirectory process (ndsd) was still using the resource.
>
> *Handler threads were being created with file names that would not be
> expected. From previous experience the threads file name is created as a
> function of the current unix time (epoch + seconds) converted into
> hexadecimal format, 1 witnessed hung thread had a name of 5fe0a58e which
> places it somewhere in 2020
>
> *Multiple C022 errors on user databases and msg databases, especailly
> after a crash - these settle down eventually
>
> *Multiple DF2A errors - these settle down eventually
>
> *'Possibly damaged blob in database' messages
>
> *After a first crash, the server would be powered off and on, when
> everything restarts, load quickly increases until it crashes again,
> after another power off/on and deleting the ngwcheck.db before starting
> the groupwise system, things will settle down - C022 errors show up at
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>
> *Monitoring with TOP shows numerous references to gwpoa (100's), even
> though there is only three poa's running. When I query the PID numbers,
> nothing is returned besides the three running instances- this is
> confusing me.
>
> *If I try and gracefully bring down the PO's before they fail, they
> won't unload as they can't close the stuck threads. All I can do is pull
> the virtual power plug out of the wall!
>
>
> WHAT'S BEEN TRIED/DONE SO FAR
>
> *Removed all scheduled maintenance jobs for the PO's
>
> *Disabled automatic db recovery and only run the standalone GWCheck
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> We only run GWCheck from the stand alone version if run manually
>
> *Given the VM's more RAM
>
> *Double & triple checked the DC files are the correct versions
>
> *We are in the process of installing all available patches for the OS.
> So far one server's been done, the other will be done later today. (This
> produced an interesting problem of the servers having two versions of
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surely run into a deadlock situation that will couse precisely all your
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So, what *is* your storage behind all this?
CU,
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GW2012 move: Does it make sense to move users to a new PO?

Moving from GW8 on OES-NW to GW2012 on OES11: Does it make sense to create new post office and move users?
We have a medium size GroupWise 8 system with a single post office holding less than 600 user accounts, 128 resources and 77 distribution lists.
Due to politics we also have a non-GroupWise external domain that contains a non-GroupWise external post office with a large number of "users".
The post office is on the primary domain.
3 secondary domains hold a GWIA and two web access agents.
I've never been real clear where the external stuff exists...
One of the web access gateways resides on an OES11 server.
The other webaccess agent and the GWIA are on OES-NW servers.
All reside in NSS volumes.
Given the lack support for NSS volumes on Linux servers by most backup applications (including mine), I've pretty much determined that it makes sense to move my GW system to EXT3 volumes.
Even if I change backup software and stick with NSS, and even though all my data is stored on SAN arrays, from what I've read on the forums and from Danita's books, it's preferable to copy your GW system files to a new NSS volume, as opposed to just re-attaching the OES-NW LUN to the new OES11 server.
Point being, whatever I do will involve copying the entire system via dbcopy and at some point, will also involve shutting down the existing domain and PO for the last phase of the copying process.
So..., I'm contemplating the following scenario:
Create a new OES11 server with EXT3 volumes sufficient for holding my GroupWise system.
Create new GroupWise 8 domain on the server.
Promote the new domain to primary and upgrade this new domain to GroupWise 2012.
Once the new domain is upgraded, create new GW2012 post office on new server/primary domain and migrate the users, resources and distribution lists to the new post office.
In the past I've had an additional post office and had migrated a about 20-25 users to that post office.
It wasn't a terrible process, and fortunately, I didn't run into any problems with the migration of those users.
When I re-consolidated my system, moving them back was also problem free
On the pro side:
No downtime of entire system
Relatively simple
Any issues in the migration process would be user-specific and would not effect the entire system.
On the con side:
Process could take far longer, since you can't move a lot of users simultaneously.
In addition, we have a small group of users with anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000 email in their account, so I'd have to factor that into haw many users I migrate at one time.
The chance of running into a stalled migration, for whatever reason, is probably much higher than running into a problem with moving the domain and PO via dbcopy.
The unknown factors for me and my level of experience:
It's been a while since I've had multiple post offices, so I don't recall what changes the users might see with regard to distribution lists, web access or external email.

Originally Posted by gathagan
Moving from GW8 on OES-NW to GW2012 on OES11: Does it make sense to create new post office and move users?
Is there any reason you think that warrants to do so?
If the system is performing normally I'd opt to stick to upgrading the current setup as is.
I'm also curious, are you intending to upgrade to 2014 after the 2012 upgrade?
Originally Posted by gathagan
The post office is on the primary domain.
3 secondary domains hold a GWIA and two web access agents.
I've never been real clear where the external stuff exists...
Ok, that setup makes the upgrade easier. As you will start the upgrade with the primary holding the PO's... the PO's can be upgraded right after or during the domain upgrade (depending on if the MTA and POA are running on the same server).
That means you don't have to think about upgraded webaccess/GWIA connectivity issues with a lower PO version.
The external stuff are simply configurations found in the existing GroupWise domain databases. Or do you mean where those connected systems actually run?
Originally Posted by gathagan
One of the web access gateways resides on an OES11 server.
The other webaccess agent and the GWIA are on OES-NW servers.
All reside in NSS volumes.
And the primary Domain and PO are also still on NetWare (version 6.5 SP8 I presume), correct?
Originally Posted by gathagan
Given the lack support for NSS volumes on Linux servers by most backup applications (including mine), I've pretty much determined that it makes sense to move my GW system to EXT3 volumes.
Which backup application is that? With GroupWise op Linux not much NSS support is needed IMO.... as long as the files get backed up properly other metadata (rights, ownerships, etc) is irrelevant.
As for EXT3 vs NSS, when dealing with OES I always choose NSS. But that's me.
Another option could be to use XFS instead of ext3. That does perform much better, but has to be noted that it is more prone to file corruption in unexpected power loss situations.
With ext3, watch out for the scheduled filesystem check cycles at boot, that is one thing I really dislike about ext3 as disabling that check completely is not recommended and it means at least once a year the system will take an extensive amount of time to complete a (re)boot due to the check running on the ext3 filesystem. That usually pops up on you when you are not counting on it and "just quickly" want to reboot the server in a patching routine or other.
Originally Posted by gathagan
Even if I change backup software and stick with NSS, and even though all my data is stored on SAN arrays, from what I've read on the forums and from Danita's books, it's preferable to copy your GW system files to a new NSS volume, as opposed to just re-attaching the OES-NW LUN to the new OES11 server.
Yes, it's always good if you can start with a clean volume when transitioning from NetWare to OES.
Depending on how long you can afford to have the system down during upgrade, you can also choose the route of moving the NetWare LUN to the new OES server. Adding a second new LUN to the OES server with the needed size and initializing it with a new NSS volume and then just simply do a volume to volume copy using the cp of rsync command. As it's on the same server that can go quite quickly within an acceptable maintenance window to complete all move/upgrade steps.
Originally Posted by gathagan
Point being, whatever I do will involve copying the entire system via dbcopy and at some point, will also involve shutting down the existing domain and PO for the last phase of the copying process.
Sure, though you don't necessarily have to use dbcopy... depending on what you are planning to do. An offline copy won't require it for example.
How much data are we talking about (in GB's)?
Originally Posted by gathagan
So..., I'm contemplating the following scenario:
Create a new OES11 server with EXT3 volumes sufficient for holding my GroupWise system.
Create new GroupWise 8 domain on the server.
Promote the new domain to primary and upgrade this new domain to GroupWise 2012.
Once the new domain is upgraded, create new GW2012 post office on new server/primary domain and migrate the users, resources and distribution lists to the new post office.
If you really want to move users.... sure. I'd again opt for upgrading the existing system.
Also, it's a good rule to have the PO's running the same GroupWise version and patchlevel before commencing user moves. Moves between PO's with a different GroupWise version can lead to issues.
Originally Posted by gathagan
In the past I've had an additional post office and had migrated a about 20-25 users to that post office.
It wasn't a terrible process, and fortunately, I didn't run into any problems with the migration of those users.
When I re-consolidated my system, moving them back was also problem free
If you would want to move users, for whatever reason, I'd opt to first upgrade to the latest version first, then move. There have been many enhancements and bugfixes made in the move procedure over these last couple of years.
Originally Posted by gathagan
On the pro side:
No downtime of entire system
Relatively simple
Any issues in the migration process would be user-specific and would not effect the entire system.
On the con side:
Process could take far longer, since you can't move a lot of users simultaneously.
In addition, we have a small group of users with anywhere from 40,000 to 80,000 email in their account, so I'd have to factor that into haw many users I migrate at one time.
The chance of running into a stalled migration, for whatever reason, is probably much higher than running into a problem with moving the domain and PO via dbcopy.
I prefer a system upgrade over moving users. The process of moving when dealing with 100+ users, requires more effort and there are always things that need attention for a portion of the users. Also things like mobile devices can require some extra attention after having moved an account for example.
True, problems during a system upgrade can potentially affect all users. That is a factor. From the many upgrades I've done that's rarely really been an issue and problems encountered during an upgrade did not cause too much delay. Just make sure you always have a good full backup handy so you can reverse the upgrade if ever needed.
Originally Posted by gathagan
The unknown factors for me and my level of experience:
It's been a while since I've had multiple post offices, so I don't recall what changes the users might see with regard to distribution lists, web access or external email.
If by this you are referring to user moves and address book visibility between PO's, that should not be different to what users are seeing now. At least, the default is that within a GroupWise system all is visible throughout the system. If you have specifically set GroupWise objects to Postoffice visibility... then that would be something to check.
Cheers,
Willem

(probably) The last GW8 Netware Server in NYC Query

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5) choose upgrade an existing domain
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9) Issues with spinning wheel so upgraded to gw2014sp1
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Q1: What problems should I be looking out for?
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So, I'm thinking i should build this system with an incoming and outgoing GWIA. I'm also thinking about re-adding webaccess.
Q3: How exactly is this incoming and outgoing gwia gateways done? A secondary domain with another vIP on .5?
Q4: How about the new webaccess? A second secondary domain with another vIP on .5?
The final reason i'd like to change the linux IP post migration is that I also have datasychronizer and a blackberry BES thrown into the mix.
Q5: Any concerns now?
Thanks
BTW I Love my blackberry

EBSR PARAMEDIC wrote:
> Using Danita's Move guide (for GW2012)
I hate to suggest such a thing, but we do have a specific guide for moving from
NetWare to GW2014, and it goes over a lot of gotchas! Sounds like you have
managed to get it working though, but I wanted to mention it in case someone who
doesn't have the 2012 guide thinks they need THAT one to upgrade to 2014 :-)
Q2: It's possible to change the IP address, but for me I would actually just
add the old address as a secondary. As you point out, the server certs would be
invalid. This isn't a HUGE issue on SLES, but honestly, if you add the
secondary IP address now, in the future if you ever need to bring up a
"temporary" server in a pinch, you can easily just "move" the GW IP address
there. The only possible downside to this is the GWIA. It will listen on the
secondary, so GWAVA will find it easily, but no matter what it listens on, it
"sends" on the primary. Thus, you might have to adjust outbound firewall rules
to allow sending by the new server.
Q3 - I think that's just a continuation of the discussion for Q2 above.
Q4 - webaccess no longer requires a domain. There is no WebAccess gateway any
longer. For that though, if the webaccess server moves to a different server,
you might need to open firewall ports between the GW server and webaccess (if
there is a firewall). WebAccess needs to have access to ports 7191, 8301 and
8400 on the GW server.
Hope that helps.
Danita
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Guide for moving GW2012 from OES2 (32) to OES11 (64) on NSS?

Hi there,
I have to move a Groupwise 2012 system (no big deal - 30 users, 1poa, 1gwia) from OES2 (32bit) - to OES11 (64bit). File system is NSS on both.
I already set up the OES11 system but have not installed any groupwise thing.
Is there a general setup/Howto guide anywhere? I only find howtos for moving from Netware/Windows to OES11 but not from OES2.
Thanks for any hints.
OH BTW: It's no migration, the new OES11 system should run parallel to the old OES2 system. At least for a while.... So new hostname, new ip, etc.... Just have to move Groupwise from one to the other...

Hi,
thx for your replys.
Yes, this is the upgrade guide to GW2012, but I am already on GW2012.
I just want to move an existing GW2012 System from OES2SP3-32bit to OES11SP1-64bit (Filesystem: NSS on both). I cannot do a server migration, cause the old server has to run for a while parallel to the new one - just without the groupwise system...
I think gwoelfels post comes most close to my problem....
Originally Posted by jmarton
lis wrote:
> Hi, I know this guide exists, but I thought it was for GW8 only, as
> the last changes dated from 2009. ??
Here's the GW2012 upgrade guide.
GroupWise 2012 Upgrade Guide - Linux & Windows
Note that a GW2014 upgrade guide is also in the works.
GroupWise 2014 Upgrade Guide - Moving to new server, including from NetWare
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Hello there folks!
I'm pretty new to the topic of C3PO, GW and all the Novell stuff and one of my tasks was to "code an export mechanism for GW8 thats lats us save e-mails to our storage system". Ok, that was a hammer. But wrapping my head around it and starting to error out the things got me pretty far and I guessed it was tutorial material. So here we go:
@Moderators: Please don't delete this. I need some time to wrap it all up.
This tutorial is intendend for C# only. I don't like VB and I'm too dumb for C++ so if you need it for another dialect you need to work it out your self.
Agenda:
Needed packages
C3PO wizard
Loading to Visual Studio 2010
Needed Imports/References
Simple MessageBoxing
Get Messages and stuff them into Lists
Export single Messages
Export multiple messages
Registering and caching the .DLL
Testing (please help me with a better way here)
1. Needed packages
the novell-gwc3po-devel-2012.11.15.zip file (unzip this after downloading)
an installed version of Visual Studio 2012 C# (or if you want to work with a different dialect choose another)
cmd access to some of the registering tools:
It may be the best thing to set tose paths up in you env variables. Allthough when running the cmd with administrator privileges you can't use regasm from env variables and need to cd to the directory.
RegAsm (regasm.exe): C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 (the version depends on the target)
GACUtil (gacutil.exe): C:\Program Files(x86)\Micrsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\ (this path is also dependent on your target framework version, I chose .NET4)
StrongName (sn.exe): C:\Program Files(x86)\Micrsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\ (this path is also dependent on your target framework version, I chose .NET4)
a good beverage :D (you should obtain multiple of these :D)
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Needed Imports/References
Simple MessageBoxing
Get Messages and stuff them into Lists
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Registering and caching the .DLL
Testing (please help me with a better way here)

can see it in the screenshot8 there is a function called "_Z8AddierenddPd" instead of "Addieren". I copied this name to Labview (see screenshot9) and it worked.
I'm sure that there is a way to compile the shared folder with gcc without decorations (mangling). But I don't know how. If someone has a recommendation I would be very glad!
Prepend each function declaration that you want to be available without name decoration with
extern "C" <your function declaration>
Or if you have multiple functions you want to export you can in the header file where you declare your functions simply use:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
<all your function declarations>
#ifdef __cplusplus
#endif
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

GW8 and MS Office 2010

Our company recently send an emergency alert notice to all of our customers via email (GW8) Total sent was approx 17K emails. I have received approx 4K in returns for bad email address. My question is this: Is there a way to extract/export all of the return mail to Excel/Access/TXT doc.... anything where I do not have to copy/paste all 4K of these bad emails addresses?

In article <[email protected]>, Alansimm29 wrote:
> Our company recently send an emergency alert notice to all of our
> customers via email (GW8) Total sent was approx 17K emails. I have
> received approx 4K in returns for bad email address. My question is
> this: Is there a way to extract/export all of the return mail to
> Excel/Access/TXT doc.... anything where I do not have to copy/paste all
> 4K of these bad emails addresses?
>
- See if that data is in the GWIA logs of that time period, and if so
they should be extractable with some text manipulation tools. Essentially
a datamining/reporting issue, so if you have a BI or Crystal Reports
person handy, they might be able to help.
- Formativ might have tools to help with such processing.
http://www.advansyscorp.com/formativ.htm
- Plan C, get an intern or other such person to do the grunt labour.
Andy Konecny
Knowledge Partner (voluntary SysOp)
Konecny Consulting Inc. in Toronto
"Give more than others think is wise
Challenge yourself beyond what others think is right"
Michael 'Pinball' Clemens

What version(s) of Microsoft Office are supported by GW2012

We have a customer currently on GW2012 who is using the old Novell OpenOffice release (3.2.1-22 IIRC) to integrate with GroupWise Document Libraries. To cut a long story short it is not a rewarding experience for the customer and they want to switch to using Microsoft Office.
So my question is simple - Which version(s) of Microsoft Office are supported by Novell to work with DMS integration for GroupWise 2012?
I know they need to be 32bit for ODMA support to even exist but are we talking Office 2007/2010/2013, any of them or none? If nothing is supported any longer then why is DMS even included in GW2012? Moving them to Vibe would be a big ask.
If this customer buys Microsoft Office and has issues using it with their GW system then we need to be able to raise an SR with Novell and not get a "that's not supported" answer.
TIA,
Mark.

We have been using Office 2010 x32 for about a year with GW 2012 SP2 -
so far so good.
As a note, we do get Error 8E14 from time to time when creating a new
document using "Save As" with an older library document as the source.
We are able to recover the new file with a few steps and no data is
lost. Just annoying.
Not sure about Vibe .... no custom fields, etc
Steve
MarkDissington wrote:
>
> We have a customer currently on GW2012 who is using the old Novell
> OpenOffice release (3.2.1-22 IIRC) to integrate with GroupWise
> Document Libraries. To cut a long story short it is not a rewarding
> experience for the customer and they want to switch to using
> Microsoft Office.
>
> So my question is simple - Which version(s) of Microsoft Office are
> -supported- by Novell to work with DMS integration for GroupWise 2012?
>
> I know they need to be 32bit for ODMA support to even exist but are we
> talking Office 2007/2010/2013, any of them or none? If nothing is
> supported any longer then why is DMS even included in GW2012? Moving
> them to Vibe would be a big ask.
> If this customer buys Microsoft Office and has issues using it with
> their GW system then we need to be able to raise an SR with Novell and
> not get a "that's not supported" answer.
>
> TIA,
> Mark.

Attachment Application association not saving in GW2012

Hi,
The PC:
Windows 7
MS Office 2007
IE 8
GW2012 client.
Issue: File/Application association settings won't hold for attachments in GW.
Description: GIF files were associated with MS Paint to OPEN. They are opening in MS Paint. But now we tried to change it to "Windows Photo Viewer". Yes the box for "always use this program to open...." was checked. GIF files from the PC are now opening with "Windows Photo Viewer" as selected but they still open in "MS Paint" when a GIF attachment is opened from GW.
Tried reinstalling GW client, cleaning registry but that didn't help.
Anyone might have faced this/similar problem?
Any suggestions to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Yaser

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Migrating GW8 system to new servers

Going to be moving a GW system, GW8.0.3, to from SuSE10 to SuSE11. System consists of 2 servers, I running primary and secondary domain with 2 post offices, 2 server runs secondary domain and gwia and webaccess. Their is a server in the dmz running webaccess agent with a purchase certificate. What I plan to do is just scp the data over to the new servers and reinstall and configure the agents on the new boxes. My question has to do with the server in the dmz. We plan to leave it as is, and I was told that all that was needed to do is reinstall the webaccess on the new box and copy the commgr.cfg from the new server to the location on the dmz server so it knows what to point too. No ip addresses are changing as well. Wanted to see if that sounds about right or if I am missing a step to get the webaccess server in the dmz to correctly still work after the migraiton.

Little more info on issue. GroupWise 8 Webaccess application is running on web server in dmz. The agent runs on the SuSE10 server along with the secondary domain it is associated too. Moving the domain and to new SuSE11 server, so plan was to reinstall the webaccess agent on the new suse11 server and the new commgr.cfg file it creates, copy that to the existing web server and make sure rights are alike. Is there anything else that needs to be done? Just want to make sure I am not missing anything here.

GW8 Spell checker error

A user is getting the error 'Cannot load spell checker resource module' when spell checking an email before sending it. We have uninstalled, ran cleaner, reinstalled GW but it is still giving the error. We are running GW8 SP2. It has been working for over an year and this suddenly happened. I ran an utility I was pointed to at www.dependencywalker.com. I have the results if needed. What can I do to fix this??

Hi,
Hate to say it, but.... user profile corruption somewhere. I suggest recreating the user profile. If it doesn't follow the user it is PC related.
Let us know how it goes.
Cheers,

GW6.5 to GW8 questions

I have a situation where we have an old GW6.5 environment we're planning
to upgrade to GW8 (budgetary reasons have delayed our migration). We
have a primary GW domain and 5 secondary domains.
My overall question is this: Can we stage the migration, where we
upgrade the primary domain first and then slowly upgrade the secondary
domains followed by the post offices in those domains?
We have a couple of post offices in the primary domain (I know that's a
no-no, but it was done before I got involved) and several post offices
in each secondary domain. I'm considering trying to eliminate some of
the remote post offices during this process and consolidate mailboxes
back at the central location.
So, my other question is, can I upgrade the primary domain and post
offices, and then move users' mailboxes from a GW6.5 PO to a GW8 PO? If
I have to upgrade a remote PO first, then so be it, but I'm hoping to be
able to identify a PO that will go away and just move those GW6.5 users'
mailboxes to an existing GW8 mailbox.
Thanks for any advice!
-- Geoff

Hi,
"Geoff K." wrote:
>
> I have a situation where we have an old GW6.5 environment we're planning
> to upgrade to GW8 (budgetary reasons have delayed our migration). We
> have a primary GW domain and 5 secondary domains.
>
> My overall question is this: Can we stage the migration, where we
> upgrade the primary domain first and then slowly upgrade the secondary
> domains followed by the post offices in those domains?
Yes, absolutely.
> We have a couple of post offices in the primary domain (I know that's a
> no-no, but it was done before I got involved)
No, that's no problem. And it's no problem to have multiple POs in one
domain either.
> So, my other question is, can I upgrade the primary domain and post
> offices, and then move users' mailboxes from a GW6.5 PO to a GW8 PO?
In theory, yes. But I wouldn't. If you *really* want to move them,
update all POs first. The move will be more reliable with latest code
all around. And updateing a PO is really a matter of minutes, and has no
adverse effects of any kind.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
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How to map with GW8 Server external POP3 mail accounts ?

I have "small" simple problem. I have GW Server 8.0.2. I have GW Internet Access (GWIA) installed. I can send e-mailes from clients to internet via built-tin SMTP protocol. It works actually.
But... I try to find place in C1 or wherever else which is responsible for setting list of external POP3 accounts, accounts placed on my current Internet Provider's server. So my simple need is to map, to be able to connect and download as server GW and to server GW many POP3 accounts from my current e-mail Server. And than which e-mail adress (external POP3 account) should be saved to which mailbox / user in my GW Server. I'm not talking about mapping that accounts indirectly, via setting in Clients !!! Everything must go via GW Server and automatically.
I dont want to change that state of course (= reach e-mailes from Internet directly to my local GW Server changing MX in DNS of my domain). Nope. I just want to map, to download posts from external mailboxes via POP3 or IMAP protocole. Nothing else.
I'm fluent in Microsoft systems. There is just simply POP3 Connector for Exchange. SMall utility whish is simple list of login, pass, POP3 server adress and name of mailbox where to save such downloaded e-mailes. I just need the same functionally utility or page in C1 or any other place ;-)))
ANY HELP ?
Cause Google are blind for that simple "problem" :-((( I know - Novell describes POP3 solution in GW8 Admin book, but... only as I want to be POP3 Server for external clients. This is slightly different, reversed sittuation :-]]] I want to connect to POP3 accounts, not to server POP3 accounts :-]]]]

Originally Posted by vatim_kk
I have "small" simple problem. I have GW Server 8.0.2. I have GW Internet Access (GWIA) installed. I can send e-mailes from clients to internet via built-tin SMTP protocol. It works actually.
But... I try to find place in C1 or wherever else which is responsible for setting list of external POP3 accounts, accounts placed on my current Internet Provider's server. So my simple need is to map, to be able to connect and download as server GW and to server GW many POP3 accounts from my current e-mail Server. And than which e-mail adress (external POP3 account) should be saved to which mailbox / user in my GW Server. I'm not talking about mapping that accounts indirectly, via setting in Clients !!! Everything must go via GW Server and automatically.
I dont want to change that state of course (= reach e-mailes from Internet directly to my local GW Server changing MX in DNS of my domain). Nope. I just want to map, to download posts from external mailboxes via POP3 or IMAP protocole. Nothing else.
I'm fluent in Microsoft systems. There is just simply POP3 Connector for Exchange. SMall utility whish is simple list of login, pass, POP3 server adress and name of mailbox where to save such downloaded e-mailes. I just need the same functionally utility or page in C1 or any other place ;-)))
ANY HELP ?
Cause Google are blind for that simple "problem" :-((( I know - Novell describes POP3 solution in GW8 Admin book, but... only as I want to be POP3 Server for external clients. This is slightly different, reversed sittuation :-]]] I want to connect to POP3 accounts, not to server POP3 accounts :-]]]]
You need to use an "old" tool called pfa (pop forwarding agent) that came with SBS.
You set the external email server credentials in the user's object via C1 and the java applet runs on the same box as your gwia.
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