Pros and Cons -Should we upgrade to GW 6.5? 2

[jtomasone]

Just would like some input if I can. We are a very large agency- 6,000 users. I am looking for pros and cons to upgrade to GroupWise 6.5.

Thanks

Janis Tomasone
Senior Computer Programmer/Analyst

 

[MichiganRon]

Pros: Take your pick from this list of new features. If you are upgrading from a version previous to 6.0, then the list get's even longer.

Cons: Cost

I can't think of any reason, other than cost, why a company would not upgrade to GW 6.5.1. We upgraded from 6.0.3 in January and are loving some of the new features. It's an excellent product.

Good luck,
Ron

We all play from the same deck of cards, it's how we play the hand we are dealt which makes us who we are. -Me

murof siht edisni kcuts m'I - PLEH

 

[DaveGoTech]

We upgraded from V5 and it works great. Everybody loves it (except those that are brainwashed by MS) and it has increased productivity. It will cost a few bucks though to upgrade 6000 users. Relatively easy to install, except Novell does not ship you all the stuff on CD, but forces you to go online and download licenses which is somewhat murky.

 

[ITsmyfault]

fwiw - really like 6.5, worth going to from 5.5 or 6. Good new admin options (& many are available at the domain level, try that in MS!), excellent anti-spam options, slicker client with improved address book.. and the users can restore their own email. I can say that it runs great, including support for clustering and running in protected memory with auto-restart. We're running it on 5.1 SP6 at the moment and mid migration to NW6.5. The only downtime we've had in 6 years was a RAID card failure - and GW was able to recover without going to tape on that one too. Add in natural resistance to viri and it's a no brainer IMHO.
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[lexus]

Yes! Yes! and another resounding Yes! Our users love it so much more than the previous versions. The Instant Messenger is used by our staff and greatly increases our HelpDesk support as well. New features are wonderful. Our users also like the fact that they can color-code items and categorize them.

**Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.**

 

[rbddee]

Hi all,

We recently upgraded from GW 5 to GW 6.5 and now a few of our nt4 worstations that are running office 97 pro are experiencing a problem when opening an attached document. When you try to open a document the word 97 screen appears and then goes away. I check my task manager and sure enough the winword.exe is running in processes. Is there some type of setting I need to change in groupwise in order for the documents to open?

thanks

 

[MichiganRon]

[red]rbddee[/red],

You probably should have started a new thread for this question because it doesn't directly relate to the orginal post.

Anyway, it sounds like you have "office integrations" enabled. We've had problems with this "feature" for a long time. I would recommend disabling it.

To disable it:
[ol][li]In the GroupWise client, go to the Tools > Options... menu item.[/li]
[li]Double click Documents[/li]
[li]On the Integrations tab, remove the checkmark from Enable integrations[/li][/ol]
If this feature is not enabled, then I'm not sure what the problem is.

Hope this helps,
Ron

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
~ Mevlana Rumi

 

[MichiganRon]

Hmm, okay then. I see that you had already started a new thread for your problem. My apologies.

My suggestion still stands though.

Ron

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”
~ Mevlana Rumi