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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:20 PM

“So I ran grooveclean, but that didn’t fix the problem…”

A review of what grooveclean does and doesn't do, and when to try it as a tool to resolve problems in Groove.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:52 AM

Synchronizing files in Groove – to GFS or not to GFS

...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 gotten
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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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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:34 PM

Rearranging a Groove-synchronized Windows folder

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
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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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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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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 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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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 2:50 PM

If you end the name of a File Sharing workspace with a space, Groove cannot synchronize the workspace

This is another Groove client issue. It’s minor, but potentially frustrating, because the error messages don’t identify the problem. Here’s the scenario: You try to create a File Sharing workspace in Groove, but you enter a workspace name that has one
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