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The windows client, and at least right now to a lesser degree the Linux/Mac client, have a new startup switch: /safe.
In the Windows client this will disable:
- start in the home folder (always start in mailbox)
- sync at startup
- auto syncing (the auto sync interval is disabled)
- panels at startup
- message preview
- sticky display settings (display settings will not automatically be saved, you can choose folder properties and display settings to save display settings changes)
- c3po's
- auto archive, purge and delete (auto cleanup)
- QF indexing
- teaming
In the Linux/Mac client this will disable:
- start in the home folder (always start in mailbox)
- sync at startup
- auto syncing (the auto sync interval is disabled)
- message preview
- auto archive, purge and delete (auto cleanup)
- QF indexing
Great idea - right? This feature and information provided by Scott Clayton - one the coolest engineers on the Windows Client Team and our Client Architect.
Dean
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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Thats great, now how about,,,,
Submitted by FlyingGuy on 21 May 2008 - 9:17pm.
grpwise.exe /clear
The /clear switch would clean out ALL local optional registry settings and set them back to post-install values.
I cannot begin to express how many times this would be very, very, useful. As an example:
I recently was supporting a client who is about an hours drive away. The client said that upon clicking reply to a message, or generating a new message, that the CC and BCC fields were missing. I tried everything since the client ( yeah never trust a user ) swore up and down that in tools, options, view the mail view was set to MAIL, not simple. I was finally in their office a few weeks later, and low and behold, it was set to simple mail.
Since this option is not part of the User DB, running gwcheck, reset client options had, no effect. ( uhhh thats a hint guys, just in case you didn't recognize it ).
- Bill
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Safe mode and Rules...
Submitted by dlythgoe on 22 May 2008 - 8:19pm.
This was an interesting debate. Safe mode was designed to get you up and running if some part of your interface or configuration prevents it. Rules only qualifies if it is a rule that triggers upon start-up or upon selecting a particular folder - like the Mailbox - since this will be the folder that will be selected most often. However, we did not feel that there would be a lot of mileage from disabling 'rules' because most Rules run upon delivery and run on the server - nothing to do with the start-up of the Client. We are open to doing something like this - if you really think there is bang for the buck....
What do you think?
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This has been something,,,
Submitted by FlyingGuy on 23 May 2008 - 9:45am.
I have asked for a quite a few times int he past, and since you are bringing it up I will bring it up again.
I would think that in either C1 or GWCheck there should the option to do the following:
a. Suspend ALL rules for an account, as if the user had unchecked them.
b. Suspend ALL rule processing at the server level.
Come to think of it, the management utility should be able to, if logged in as the system administrator, affect all client side options. This of course, would require that you get the option settings out of the registry and into the User DB's where they belong.
Now doing this will go a long way towards streamlining client development across platforms, since this would eliminate the need to have at least two different code modules, one for dealing with the registry in windoze and one for dealing with .settings files on either the linux or OSX clients, Moving ALL of these settings into the UserDB would require you to only tweek the code that fetches other settings from the UserDB and you could eliminate ALL the code dealing with the registry and .settings files all together.
In my opinion this would be a very good thing, since one of the better selling points for GroupWise is, "It does not matter which machine you log into GW from, all your mail will be there, along with your settings as well.".
What say you?
- Bill
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System Management not quite there ..
Submitted by mickers on 27 May 2008 - 4:20pm.
I'll add my request for cleaning up the client side settings, and making them more manageable. I've been a GW admin for many years, and I love the product. But we have 1400+ users who use the GW7 client. Almost six months into the year and I'm still noticing complaints that the Groupwise Notify/client pops up and asks for a password every login. They have been told to check the 'eDir authentication' box in Tools/Options/Security, which makes signon seamless, but many don't, or forget, or get scared. I would love to be able to manage this sort of thing from a system-wide viewpoint. The same applies to proxy management, and other things like this. In my opinion, Novell is so good at 'login anywhere', and your resources (and apps - thanks ZEN) follow you, it's a shame that parts of GW are still 'unmanagemable' at a systemic level.
Keep up the good work. Looking forward to Bonsai.
Cheers, Michael.
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good idea BUT.....
Submitted by bharat1 on 28 May 2008 - 12:02am.
As Bill said the various REGISTRY settings really belong in the DB.
Keep away from putting ANYTHING in the Registry of the machine.
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More safe
Submitted by ghealdan on 28 May 2008 - 6:56am.
I think this is a great idea, it would be even more helpful if you had the ability to start turning some of these things back on one at a time to troubleshoot the issue.
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Auto Save while composing emails BUT is a easy recovery feature?
Submitted by mheymann on 7 June 2008 - 9:16am.
I am Very happy that U have included this feature - Auto Save while composing emails I hope there is an easy recovery management feature too. That will mean that if Windows or GroupWise Crashes and you are in the middle of writing an eMail you will NOT loose ALL you have written. Especially if you are writing multiple eMails at once. I first asked for this a Brainshare 1998 or 1999 Thanx
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