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GroupWise 2014 In Microsoft AD Environments

Robin Redgrave Sales Engineer

rredgrave@novell.com

Klaus Hild Sales Engineer

khild@novell.com

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Agenda

• What is new in GroupWise 2014 admin

• Using Active Directory as the user directory

• Moving GroupWise users from eDirectory to AD

• Co existence with Exchange

What is new in 2014 admin

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Novell GroupWise® Administration

Architecture Overview

Browsers

Custom Applications

Direct File Access

ConsoleOne

Admin Service

Admin Console

HTML/JS

Tablets

REST

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Novell GroupWise® Administration

Directory changes

– Support eDirectory, Active Directory or no directory

– Can mix users from different directories on same PO

– No schema modifications!

– All synchronisation performed via LDAP

– Only write email back to directory (optional)

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Novell GroupWise® Administration

New features:

– System overview

– Global search

– Advanced query language

– Start/Stop agents

– Export List

– Command Line Tool

– Administration delegation

Using Active Directory as a user directory

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Adding an AD directory

• Create a new LDAP directory

– Add additional servers as necessary

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MMC administration add-in

• Allows you to select the PO when creating user

Enabling users to utilise Active Directory

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Single users

• Disassociate user from eDirectory

• Associate with active directory

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Multiple users

• Directory associations in system

Co existing with Microsoft Exchange

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How Does the Co-existence Solution Work?

Supports free/busy search and address book

synchronization between the two systems

Requires GroupWise 2012 SP2 and Exchange

2010 (Cornell: 2013)

Does not alter your current GroupWise system

architecture

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How is the Co-existence Solution Architected?

Windows Client

Linux Client

Mac Client

Webaccess User

Outlook Client

Outlook Client

Outlook Webaccess

Outlook Webaccess

POA

POA

POA

eDirectory

LDAP

MTA

MTA

ActiveDirectory LDAP Server

Exch

an

ge

IIS

Windows GroupWise

• EWS – Redirection

• OWA – Interception

• Handler

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Meet the Product Managers

• Wednesday 10:30 – 11:15h

– Madhan Periasamy Product Manager OES, iPrint

– Richard Lindstedt Product Manager Filr

• New PM/PMMs in our organization

– Nicholas Scholz Product Marketing Manager for GroupWise, OES and Vibe

– Mike Bills Product Manager Collaboration

GroupWise, GW Mobility Service, Messenger

– Craig Altom Product Manager Vibe

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