The GroupWise product team knows that collaboration often takes
place outside the boundaries of the organization chart. We hear it
from our customers: a social worker needs to talk to someone in law
enforcement; a director of economic development needs to sync up
with a corporate executive; knowledge workers in different business
units or subsidiaries need to share information, keep track of
contact info, and coordinate schedules. Often, each agency or
subsidiary has its own IT team and matching collaboration system:
some use GroupWise and others are on Exchange. Users in these
different systems need to work together, and the collaboration
environments they use need to support their work.
Sure, the GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) supports open
protocols that work with just about any system - SMTP, MIME,
S/MIME, iCalendar - so that e-mails and appointments flow freely
between systems, but what if you need an integration that's a
little tighter?
Our answer for federating GroupWise and Exchange systems is
the GroupWise Exchange Gateway. It lets IT teams link their
GroupWise and Exchange systems up to share system address books,
making all users names on both systems available to everyone; route
e-mail with extra information that would be otherwise stripped
using Internet protocols; and coordinate schedules. Whether you
have Exchange 5.5, 2000 or 2003, the GroupWise Exchange Gateway can
help you and your users get more work done (stay tuned for Exchange
2007 - we'll cross that bridge when we come to it). The Gateway
runs on a Windows server with Exchange. It links into an
Exchange Server and keeps critical information on the two systems
in sync. As of December 2006, the latest GroupWise Exchange Gateway
allows users to do free/busy searches on users and resources on the
other system: GroupWise users can check availability of Exchange
users, and these can do the same with their peers on
GroupWise.
To get the latest version of the Gateway, visit
http://download.novell.com.
Phillip Karren
GroupWise Product Manager
Cell: +1-801-376-1138
