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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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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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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:33 PM

Groove Server Manager 2007 sp1 is not compatible with SQL Server 2008

[Update 5/8/09 -- fixed in Office Groove 2007, SP2. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968770 .] As you may have noticed, SQL Server 2008 (check out that 180-day trial!) is now available . Don't try to use it for Groove domain data yet, though! The current
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Monday, August 18, 2008 5:43 PM

Use search constraints to search Active Directory servers which list more than 1000 users.

In Groove Manager, you can import users from an Active Directory server, and optionally leave them linked to that directory, so that changes to the user profile in Active Directory propagate to the Groove domain. To do this, as part of adding the member
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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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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:27 PM

Why is Groove asking me to change my password repeatedly after it was reset?

Hello! I have a client issue for you today. This one isn’t a bug, just a confusing situation that you can get into when you have an old Groove password reset. Here’s the scenario. You have a Groove installation that you haven’t used for a while – or a
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Monday, July 21, 2008 9:54 AM

Auto-configuration failure when Active Directory server uses a custom NetBIOS name

[Update 5/8/09 -- fixed in Office Groove 2007, SP2.] Today's issue applies to managed Groove domains that integrate with an Active Directory server. If you manage your Groove domain with Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 Manager, you can import users
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:48 PM

Groove File Sharing workspaces should be limited to 50 or fewer

[Update 5/8/09 -- fixed in Office Groove 2007, SP2. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968769 ] A customer ran across a previously unknown limitation in Groove, recently. It turns out that if an installation of Groove has a lot of Groove File Sharing
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