(9/13/2011: Updated to add KB link) Update, March 28, 2012: There is now an update available for this issue. Note that you must apply the update before applying SP1. When you install Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Office 2010 over Office Professional...

I am delighted to announce the release of three updates significant to SharePoint Workspace customers: Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) An SDK for SharePoint Workspace 2010 The June Cumulative Update (CU) for Office 2010 These updates...

Update, July 5, 2011: This issue is fixed in the the Office 2010 June CU for SharePoint Workspace. See this article for details: Office 2010 Cumulative Update for June 2011 Firewall error at startup - again Some of our customers in more security...

We recently discovered that one of the Groove Relay servers managed by Microsoft was having connection problems. The issue has been resolved and the server restarted. If you are experiencing connection or presence issues in SharePoint Workspace or Groove...

by Joe Levine and Patrick Gan (edited by Frances S., 4/13/11) SharePoint Workspace 2010 might crash on startup or during account configuration under the following circumstances: You upgraded to Office 2010 from Office 2003 or an earlier version...

SharePoint sync is the new focus of the product, and here in Support, we get a lot of questions about how it works. What kinds of data can be synchronized? How much data? What SharePoint versions are supported? Does the product still use Groove servers...

Hello everyone! Now that the Office 2010 release is near, I'm planning to start a series of articles on changes in the product from Microsoft Office Groove 2007. This article is about single sign-on authentication -- first some general information, and...

by Gregg Johnston Scenario You have just set up your Groove server environment, and it looks good. You have your Groove Manager server running and a connection to SQL server. Groove Relay is all fired up and has been added to the Groove domain....

A review of what grooveclean does and doesn't do, and when to try it as a tool to resolve problems in Groove. ...

...that is the question Many users have started to use Groove because of the handy way it takes a folder in your directory and shares that folder as a Groove space – synchronizing files between workspace members and computers. Many users have also...

I expect many of you have been hearing the buzz about Microsoft Office 2010 . I'll be talking more about the features and changes in that product as we get closer to the release. However, for those of you still using Groove Virtual Office 3.1 or the Groove...

By now, I expect that most of you have seen an announcement that that in Office 2010, Groove will become Sharepoint Workspace. Jim McCoy has more information about the reasoning behind that name change here: http://blogs.msdn.com/groove_development_team...

Hi all! You may have noticed that it's been pretty quiet here lately. That's because we've been busy preparing for the recent releases of Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 and Microsoft Office servers 2007 SP2 . These service packs fix the following problems...

Do you run Groove Virtual Office 3.1, or use the old 3.1 Groove Hosted Services? At this point, we believe most people who were using Groove Virtual Office 3.1 -- the last version of the Groove desktop application produced by Groove Networks -- have transitioned...

In a comment here , Camineet poses a question about relative file transfer speeds of File Sharing and Standard workspaces. Since this varies by environment, I wanted to open it up for others to contribute. Do you have data to share?

We have seen an increase in cases of Groove hanging at launch, either before displaying the login window, or soon after displaying the Launchbar. There are several conditions that cause this, and thus several things that fix it. If you are having this...

When you use a folder in your daily work, you naturally find yourselves moving things around. For example, shortly after I started blogging, I realized that my work documents folder had become cluttered with half-written article ideas, so I changed the...

Jim McCoy revived the Groove Development team blog a few months ago. We cross-linked our blogs at the time, but since custom links are so far down the sidebar, I'm not sure they get noticed. Check out his blog for tips and tidbits on what you can do with...

Under the Options tab of Groove Preferences, there is an innocuous looking option, Discard Groove messages from unknown contacts . While this option is useful in some situations, it is important to understand the problems that may result from using it...

Here's a scenario for anyone who administers a Groove domain from Groove Enterprise Services or Groove Hosted Services (i.e., from a Microsoft-hosted server). Let's say that one of your users lost their account and needs their account backup. No problem...

Since Groove is all about synchronization, it should come as no surprise that a lot of our support issues fall into that category. Here's a brief summary of factors to consider when data is not synchronizing from one workspace endpoint to another, or...

Someone on the Groove newsgroup recently noted that the instructions for “Setting up a SharePoint Document Library connection” in the Groove Help only apply to Windows XP. After confirming this was true, I checked the Groove 2007 Help and How-to Home...

So, I'll confess -- SharePoint is not one of my specialties, especially in the current version of Groove. Recently, on one of the Groove newsgroups, someone was reporting that most of the documents in one of his libraries were not synchronizing down to...

Hardware failure is one of those risks you can never quite eliminate. So what do you do to protect your Groove domain data? The Groove Manager (or Management Server, for those of you still running 3.1) provides an administrative web interface on an...

Lately, I've seen a number of questions about the size of Groove workspaces. I mentioned a couple of size limitations in my recent article on GFS workspaces, as well. This article will discuss what determines the size of a Groove workspace, and best practice...