GroupWise Mobile Server (GMS), powered by Nokia Intellisync 3.0, is the latest version of the industry leading mobility solution, for Novell GroupWise. It offers many exciting new features, including support for rich HTML emails, busy search capability and a new and improved protocol, designed to decrease bandwidth usage and preserve battery life.
Please read on if you would be interested in participating with Novell in the beta testing of this product.
Jay Parker on the NGW List :
“The GMS 2.0.3 for Linux public beta has been refreshed with our FCS Gold Master Candidate build. We’re not aware of any ship-stoppers. Assuming none are reported during the public beta, this same image will be used for final release in two to three weeks.
If you’ve been waiting to try the Linux version, NOW would be a good time to start.â€
Download the GMS 2.0.3 Public Beta Refresh – Gold Master Candidate.
Need more on the new GroupWise client ?
Check out these great links.
This BrainShare 2008 keynote
(the GW demo starts after 10:30 minutes).
Screenshots :
– Home View,
– Discussion Thread,
– Calendar,
– Contacts,
– Task List (replacing the Checklist),
– WebAccess.
Taken from this fresh Connection Magazine article.
BrainStorm, Novell’s training partner, has created several demo’s :
– Tip: Adding a Task,
– Tip: Using Display Settings,
– Tip: Adding a Contact,
– Tip: Working with Time Zones,
– Tip: Publishing Free-Busy Schedule,
– Tip: Customizing Your Home Folder,
– Tip: Publishing a Calendar,
– Tip: Subscribing to a Calendar.
Enjoy !
GW7 SP3 and GW65 SP6 update 3 are out.
GroupWise 7 SP3 Windows and NLM US and MULTI 703
GroupWise 7 SP3 Linux Full US and MULTI 703
GroupWise 7 SP3 Windows Client US and MULTI 703
GroupWise 7 SP3 Linux Client US and MULTI 703
GroupWise 7 SP3 Mac Client US and Multi 703
GroupWise 6.5.6 Update 3 Windows client 656up3
Read Dean Lythgoe’s blog on this SP.
About the security issue :
Description:
A security vulnerability exists in the GroupWise Windows client API that can allow programmatic access to non-authorized email under certain conditions. The attacker must first authenticate to GroupWise and be a recipient of a shared folder from another user. The attacker could then exploit the vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to non-shared email in the mailbox of the sharer.
Cause: An unspecified error in the Windows client API
Workaround:
Users that have shared folders with other users can protect their email by removing shared access until remedial steps have been completed. It is not necessary to delete the contents of the shared folders and they can be re-shared after the administrator has locked out older client versions.
To remove shared access to a folder select the shared folder, click File > Sharing, then select Not shared.
Remedy:
For GroupWise 7 – Customers running GroupWise 7.0 clients
should immediately upgrade all clients to GroupWise 7 SP3 (dated 09 Mar 2008) and lock out older clients via ConsoleOne.
GroupWise 6.5 Windows – Customers running GroupWise 6.5 Windows clients should immediately upgrade all Windows clients to the GroupWise 6.5 SP6 client Update 3 (dated 11 Mar 2008), or upgrade to GroupWise 7 SP3. Older clients must be locked out via ConsoleOne.
GroupWise 6.5 Linux – Customers running GroupWise 6.5 Linux or Mac clients should immediately upgrade to GroupWise 7 SP3 (dated 09 Mar 2008).
For GroupWise 6.0 and previous – Customers still running unsupported GroupWise client versions (5.x and 6) should immediately upgrade clients and servers to either GroupWise 6.5 SP6 Update 3 or to GroupWise 7 SP3. Older clients must be locked out via ConsoleOne.
If Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) is installed in a GroupWise 7 environment then upgrade the BES to a version which supports the GroupWise 7 client (BES 4.0 SP 7 or BES 4.1 SP4), and upgrade the GW client installed on the machine to 7.0 SP3 (dated 09 Mar 2008).
If Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) is installed in a GroupWise 6.5 environment then upgrade the GW client installed on the machine to 6.5 SP6 Client Update 3 (dated 11 Mar 2008).
Special Instructions and Notes:
For instructions on locking out older client versions please refer to GroupWise documentation for your GroupWise version:
GroupWise 7: http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/index.html?page=/documentation/gw7/gw7_admin/data/adqaf1n.html
GroupWise 6.5: http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw65/index.html?page=/documentation/gw65/gw65_admin/data/adqaf1n.html
If running a mixed environment of 6.5 and 7.0 clients then make sure to lock out based on client release date rather than client version. The recommended date should be 08 Mar 2008 in order to ensure the system is not vulnerable.
Posted by Jay Parker (NTS) in the NGW List :
I pinged my contacts at RIM and got the following info.
During the last GWAVA one of the presenters from RIM communicated that RIM is targeting SP5 for mid-year. It will include HTML and email rendering support along with some additional features. RIM is targeting feature parity with other platforms around the same time.
In email my RIM contact also mentioned that SP5 for the other platforms has not yet officially shipped. So now that BES for GroupWise 4.1.4 has shipped, all platforms are at the same SP level (at least for a little while). This seems to be confirmed by the link <…> provided from RIM which says that SP5 is “Coming Soonâ€.
I agree that it’s not good that BES SPs for GroupWise ship behind the Exchange SPs. In RIM’s defense I’ll state that we’re pushing them very hard to move their architecture away from the client API to SOAP. And as they make incremental steps to this effect with each release it can introduce bugs which cause delays.
We work very close with their dev team. From my interactions with that team and other contacts at RIM, I’m convinced they have a very talented and committed team working on GroupWise. I think you’ll see improvement in quality with each release as well as Exchange SP vs. GroupWise SP availability window shorten.
Check out this great free tool from Tay Kratzer, mr. GroupWise on Linux !
He’s whipped up an application that can help you when trying to monitor GroupWise POA and GroupWise MTA logs on the Linux platform.
You can freely distribute this software.
I’ve listed this tool on GWCheck.com in the TOOLS – Admin GW – Linux menu.
Dean Lythgoe in the NGW List :
Research in Motion has sent the BES 4.1 SP4 for GroupWise to operations/manufacturing. They expect it to be available as soon as Thursday.
We are working very closely with our partner, RIM and we have had extensive internal rollout of this BES version. They have recently reorganized their GroupWise development team. This has probably had some impact, but overall, they are committed to their road map and plans of bringing GroupWise more in line with Exchange/Notes support. Both from a features perspective as well as from a version perspective.
Please watch RIM for this announcement!
Dean
