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When you install Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Office 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010 is installed -- UPDATE
Posted
8 months ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
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(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...
The Weekly Groove
Higher limits, fixes, and extras: updates you should know about
Posted
10 months ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
5
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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...
The Weekly Groove
Spurious firewall error at SharePoint Workspace startup
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
10
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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...
The Weekly Groove
Groove Relay at Microsoft restarted
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
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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...
The Weekly Groove
SharePoint Workspace 2010 crashes on some systems that were upgraded from Office 2003 or earlier
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
8
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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...
The Weekly Groove
Synchronizing to SharePoint in SharePoint Workspace 2010
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
20
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Single sign-on in SharePoint Workspace 2010
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Error -- “Unable to register with Relay Server”
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
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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....
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“So I ran grooveclean, but that didn’t fix the problem…”
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
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A review of what grooveclean does and doesn't do, and when to try it as a tool to resolve problems in Groove. ...
The Weekly Groove
Synchronizing files in Groove – to GFS or not to GFS
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
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...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...
The Weekly Groove
Upcoming changes for Groove 3.1
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
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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...
The Weekly Groove
Groove name change
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
4
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Summary of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 changes for Groove
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
2
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Groove 3.1 Licensing maintenance issues
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
4
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Discuss: Relative file transfer speeds of File Sharing and Standard workspaces
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
1
Comments
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?
The Weekly Groove
Groove hangs at launch
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
15
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Rearranging a Groove-synchronized Windows folder
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
7
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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...
The Weekly Groove
Welcoming another Groove blog...
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Problems with "Discard Groove messages from unknown contacts"
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
When Groove Administrator email doesn't reach the user
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
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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...
The Weekly Groove
A summary of Groove workspace synchronization
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
26
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Adding a Sharepoint Files tool to a Groove workspace
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Understanding and troubleshooting the SharePoint Files tool in Groove 2007
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
3
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
Groove Manager best practices – protect your data
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
1
Comments
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...
The Weekly Groove
The size of Groove workspaces
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Frances Se - MSFT
0
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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...
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