Documentation Updates

This section lists updates to the Administration guide that have been made since the initial release of GroupWise^® 6. The information will help you to keep current on documentation updates and, in some cases, software updates (such as a Support Pack release).

The information is grouped according to the date when the Administration guide was republished. Within each dated section, the updates are listed by the names of the main table of contents sections.

The Administration guide has been updated on the following dates:

November 14, 2003 (SP4)

The following sections list the updates that were made to the GroupWise 6 Administration guide in November, 2003, for Support Pack 4:

Location	Change
Post Offices
Disabling a Post Office	Corrected the steps and screen shot to show that you disable post offices on the Client Access Settings page in ConsoleOne.
Users
Checking GroupWise Account Usage	Added links to information about identifying unused GroupWise accounts and measuring message traffic from individual GroupWise mailboxes.
Post Office Agent
/ip	Clarified that the IP address specified by the /ip switch affects all port numbers.
Internet Agent
Using Preamble Files and Preamble.txt	Made a correction to give the file size in bytes, not kilobytes.

September 30, 2003

The following sections list the updates that were made to the GroupWise 6 Administration guide in September, 2003:

Location	Change
Domains
Deciding Where to Create the Domain Directory	Clarified that you can create domains on NetWare^® 4.2 and NetWare 3.12 servers, although you cannot run the agents on these versions of NetWare.
Post Offices
Deciding Where to Create the Post Office Directory	Clarified that you can create post offices on NetWare 4.2 and NetWare 3.12 servers, although you cannot run the agents on these versions of NetWare.
Databases
Re-creating a User Database	Clarified a limitation of using the Recreate User Database action of Mailbox/Library Maintenance, specifically that all folder assignments are lost, so that the user must completely reorganize his or her re-created mailbox.
GWTSA Startup Switches	Clarified that the /log switch turns on logging and displays a logging screen. The log file is created in the sys:\system\tsa directory.

May 7, 2003 (SP3)

The following sections list the updates that were made to the GroupWise 6 Administration guide in May, 2003, for Support Pack 3:

Location	Change
Post Office Agent
Performing Nightly User Upkeep	Explained how to generate the downloadable system Address Book for Remote client users between the regular once-daily cycles.
Internet Agent
Changing the Status Messages for Outbound Messages	Described the format of the status.xml file and explained the format characters and variables that can be used in the file.
Connecting GroupWise Systems	Added instructions about how to use the Internet Agent to connect two GroupWise systems so that users from both systems show up in the GroupWise Address Book.
Linking Domains	Added instructions about how to use the Internet Agent to link two domains within the same GroupWise system.
Configuration Files	Added information about the Internet Agent's various configuration files.

December 4, 2002

The following sections list the updates that were made to the GroupWise 6 Administration guide in December, 2002:

Location	Change
Internet Agent
Determining What to Do with Undeliverable Messages	Clarified information about the Undeliverable and Problem Messages setting. Despite the setting name, the setting applies only to problem messages, not to undeliverable messages.
Addressing Rules and Internet-Style Addressing	Added information about how addressing rules that contain the @ symbol apply when a GroupWise system is configured for Internet-style addressing (user@host) rather than standard GroupWise addressing (user.postoffice.domain)
Providing LDAP Server Access	Added instructions about how to configure the Internet Agent to directly access an LDAP server. This is required only if POP3/IMAP4 users attempt to access GroupWise mailboxes on post offices that has been configured for GroupWise authentication through LDAP and the Internet Agent is not using client/server (TCP/IP) access to the post offices.
Configuring the Internet Agent to Use SSL	Added information about how to change the ports the Internet Agent will use for secure (SSL) connections to POP3/IMAP4 clients, SMTP hosts, and the Internet Agent Web console.
Defining Destination SMTP Hosts in a Route.cfg File	Added instructions about how to use the ROUTE.CFG file to define SMTP hosts that the Internet Agent will send to directly rather than using a relay host. This applies only if the Internet Agent is configured to use a relay host.
Understanding the Accounting File's Fields	Added a section that describes each of the fields in the Internet Agent's accounting (ACCT) file.
Startup Switches	This section was missing several startup switches, including LDAP, IMAP, POP, and SSL switches. Added missing startup switches and reorganized the section for easier access, including an A to Z index of the switches.
General	Ensured that the descriptions of the Internet Agent settings displayed in ConsoleOne link to the corresponding startup switches.

July 26, 2002 (SP2)

The following sections list the updates that were made to the GroupWise 6 Administration guide in July, 2002, for Support Pack 2:

Location	Change
Databases
GroupWise Target Service Agent (GWTSA)	Updated the list of compatible backup software products.
Post Office Agent
Recommended NSS Parameters for the NetWare POA	Added more information about fine-tuning the performance of the POA: /NameCacheSize=20000 /OpenFileHashShift=15 /ClosedFileCacheSize=50000 /CacheBalance=60 /FileFlushTimer=75 /BufferFlushTimer=75
Providing LDAP Authentication for GroupWise Users	Added sections for new LDAP capabilities: You can configure the POA to try to contact additional LDAP servers if the primary LDAP server fails to respond. You can configure the POA to contact a different LDAP server each time a user tries to authenticate to GroupWise, in order to facilitate load balancing and fault tolerance.
Copying and Compiling the POA MIB File	Added instructions to help ZENworks for Servers users monitor the POA using Management and Monitoring Services.
/language	Updated the list of two-letter language codes to match the currently available localized versions.
Message Transfer Agent
Copying and Compiling the MTA MIB File	Added instructions to help ZENworks for Servers users monitor the MTA using Management and Monitoring Services.
/language	Updated the list of two-letter language codes to match the currently available localized versions.
Internet Agent
Changing the Status Messages for Outbound Messages	Added instructions about how to use the STATUS.XML file to modify the status messages that GroupWise users will receive for outbound messages.
Creating a Class of Service	Updated the information for the Prevent Message Larger Than field under step 5 to indicate that the setting is used only if it is less than the same setting for the default class of service.
Client
GroupWise Check	Added information about how to run GroupWise Check before opening a Caching or Remote mailbox
Startup Switches for the Client	Added information about the /iabs startup switch.