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Monday, August 24, 2009 11:30 AM

Upcoming changes for Groove 3.1

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
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:00 AM

Groove name change

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/archive/2009/05/13/makeover-for-groove-sharepoint-workspace-2010.aspx
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:46 PM

Groove 3.1 Licensing maintenance issues

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
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:09 PM

Discuss: Relative file transfer speeds of File Sharing and Standard workspaces

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?
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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:22 PM

Groove hangs at launch

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
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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:10 PM

Problems with "Discard Groove messages from unknown contacts"

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.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:55 PM

When Groove Administrator email doesn't reach the user

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
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Friday, December 12, 2008 1:08 PM

A summary of Groove workspace synchronization

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
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:16 PM

Adding a Sharepoint Files tool to a Groove workspace

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
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Monday, November 10, 2008 3:17 PM

Understanding and troubleshooting the SharePoint Files tool in Groove 2007

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
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:43 PM

Groove Manager best practices – protect your data

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 IIS
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:54 PM

The size of Groove workspaces

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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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:37 PM

More details on Groove servers (mostly Relay)

In reference to Patrick Gan's "So you want to host your own Groove Servers", one reader had a few questions about the functions of the Groove servers. Hi Bryan! Thank you for your comments. If you missed my post Groove without your own servers in July,
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:56 PM

Comparing Groove Standard workspaces and Groove File Sharing workspaces

When you click New Workspace in Groove 2007, you have three options for the type of workspace you want to create: Standard, File Sharing, or Template. So what’s the difference? The Template option is simply a Standard Workspace with a custom toolset.
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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:52 AM

How I use Groove

Groove is used very differently by different organizations and different people. I saw a statement recently that Groove workspaces won’t synchronize once they are over 2 GB – that’s not accurate, incidentally. Larger workspaces will continue to synchronize,
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