How To: Faster Access to Groove Workspaces

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The other day I came across this solution by Laurent Kempe that gives the Groove user fast access to their workspaces using Taskbar Shortcuts.

The following exert was borrowed from Laurent’s blog post "Groove Virtual Office Tips #1 : Fast access to Workspaces":

…Groove Launchbar is great but sometimes it simply takes too much time to open it to get to a workspace.

  1. Go with Explorer in your My Documents folder, Create a folder and call it My Groove
  2. You might create in your My Groove Folder other Folders to classify your workspaces
  3. Open Groove Launchbar
  4. Select one workspace and drag it to the explorer folder you just created, you get automatically a shortcut to that workspace
  5. Continue doing so for all workspace you want to have access to
  6. Right click on the taskbar and choose in the context menu Toolbars / New Toolbar, in new dialog browse to My Documents / My Groove, click OK

You now have a new Toolbar called My Groove in window's taskbar that let you choose a Workspace without running the Groove Launchbar…

You can check out the full article, and many others on Groove, by checking out Laurent Kempe’s blog here

Link to this Article:
https://blogs.technet.com/groove/archive/2007/02/23/how-to-faster-access-to-groove-workspaces.aspx