Implementing Novell GroupWise

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ImplementingNovell GroupWise

• Tim Shaw Sylvain Phaneuf
• Clinical School IMSU

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Objectives

• Our requirements
• Alternative groupware packages
• GroupWise explored
• Good and bad
• Summary
• QA

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GroupWare

• What is it?

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GroupWare

• What is it?
• A class of software that helps groups of
  colleagues (workgroups) attached to a local-area
  network organise their activities.

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Requirements

• Problems we needed to solve
• Diverse multiple email systems
• Management of POP users
• Group email addresses
• What we wanted to provide
• Personal and group calendars
• Web access to email and calendars
• Proxy access to mailboxes
• Global address book

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Groupware Alternatives

• Lotus Notes
• Microsoft Exchange
• Novell GroupWise

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GroupWise Architecture
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Agent operation - POA
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Agent operation - MTA
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Agent operation - GWIA
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GroupWise Administrator
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Demo

• Client Software
• Web Access

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Disaster Recovery GWBACKUP

• no Target Service Agent (TSA)
• Novell GWBACKUP for PO databases
• backs up database files in logically
  consistent order
• locking each database file while copy is made
• Novell DBCOPY for domain database
• destination location of GWBACKUP and DBCOPY is
• outside the PO, then standard backup on tape,
  etc.

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Disaster Recovery GWBACKUP
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Disaster Recovery GWCHECK

• Structural damage to database caused by corrupt
  or incomplete transactions
• interrupted network connection, GPFs, users
  turning off their machine during transaction,
  server abends, etc.
• Novell GWCHECK user and message databases
  (individual or entire PO)
• NWAdmin maintenance routine that can be run
  daily
• Reduce, expire, purge trash

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Disaster Recovery GWCHECK
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Add ons - Guinevere

• third party programme allowing virus detection in
  internet mail attachments
• command line anti-virus applications
• McAfee/NAI Virus Scan
• Norton Anti-Virus
• DataFellows F-Prot and F-Secure
• Trend Micro/Touchstone PC-Cillin
• Cheyenne Inoculan
• Sophos Sweep
• Dr. Solomons

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Guinevere

• Running on NT
• Command line F-Prot

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Guinevere - cool tools

• Limit incoming message size (10MB)
• Stop attachments by extension .bat, .com,
  .vbs
• Add a disclaimer/confidentiality/signature footer
  to all outgoing messages
• Filter - subject line (deny ILoveYou messages)
• Filter - RCPT (forward, delete, archive)
• Filter - FROM field

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Integration with PDAs

• US Robotics and 3Com Palm Pilot
• SyncWise by Toffa International (www.toffa.com)
• Intellisync by Puma Technology
  (www.pumatech.com)
• Psion Organisers
• LinkWise from Advansys (www.advansyscorp.com)
• Synchronise address book, diary, task, mail

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Implementation

• 3 user evaluation installation on separate system
• Pilot installation on main NDS tree for 8 people
  (IMSU)
• Rollout to other departments
• Upgrades

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Costs

• Hardware costs
• Software costs
• Time costs?

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Good and bad

• Integration with NWADMIN
• Low maintenance
• Distributed design

• Gateway performance
• No TSA for backup
• Mass message operations
• Text export from message store

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Summary

• In conclusion
• http//www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
• http//democity.novell.com/staticindex.html

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Question and Answer time
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