I signed an offer letter today and will start my new permanent gig on February 14th. It's a consulting company, so I'll be available for "rent" after the 14th. Nope, I'm not taking 2 weeks off, instead the new company is willing to wait while I finish up a short consulting gig for a local school district that could use an extra pair of hands.
Good news for you all, is that there will be a few scrubbed checklists that come out of this work that I'll be posting somewhere in a PDF format. I'm still looking for a way to post my handouts from the Teach an Old Dog New GroupWise Tricks sessions I did at GWAVACons past...with a few updates of course! So if any of you know of a good way to do this that allows for downloads I'd appreciate a heads-up.
And for those that aren't aware yet, there is a new Hot Patch for GroupWise 8.02 that addresses a security vulnerability in the GWIA. You'll want to get that on fairly soon as 8.0.3 is a little ways out just yet.
Details on the hot patch can be found here:
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=HJuDB3wNoeM~
Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
GWAVACon News
Just because I didn't make it to GWAVACon doesn't mean I can't watch it from afar. :)
The big news is that Danita - GroupWise Goddess Extraordinaire - managed to take a nasty fall and not be able to travel as a result. Norm O'Neal, of One Community and Open Horizons fame, has stepped up to present Danita's sessions for her - Go Norm!
Seems everyone is having fun, some have made it out to the Santa Monica Pier and the weather looks awesome...all making me drool with jealousy. I see several familiar faces and backs of heads in the photos posted so far. I hope everyone's learning all sorts of good stuff and will share when they get back.
In the meantime, I'll be available for work about mid-February if anyone needs any contract work. Job hunting is a full time job!
The big news is that Danita - GroupWise Goddess Extraordinaire - managed to take a nasty fall and not be able to travel as a result. Norm O'Neal, of One Community and Open Horizons fame, has stepped up to present Danita's sessions for her - Go Norm!
Seems everyone is having fun, some have made it out to the Santa Monica Pier and the weather looks awesome...all making me drool with jealousy. I see several familiar faces and backs of heads in the photos posted so far. I hope everyone's learning all sorts of good stuff and will share when they get back.
In the meantime, I'll be available for work about mid-February if anyone needs any contract work. Job hunting is a full time job!
Friday, January 21, 2011
IDM 4 Job Lead - anyone interested?
I have a job lead for someone with hands-on IDM 4 experience, preferably with AD/eDir/Notes driver experience. Drop me a line if you're interested and need the contact info.
The Big EveNt - back in 2012
Chad, Rusty and I had a very nice lunch yesterday - thanks for picking up the tab Chad! - and we're off and planning for 2012. We could use some more help though, so anyone interested in helping out please shoot me an email.
It will still be a user-lead event, but it won't be a strictly WMNUG event any longer. We want all of the Linux, Adobe, Microsoft, VMWare, Novell, SharePoint, HDI, ITIL, PMI, and whomever I'm forgetting user groups in town involved. We want this to be a truly, everything and anything IT related event.
Any ideas or suggestions of what you'd like to see are most welcome as always. And yes, our goal is to keep it free or as cheap as possible to our attendees.
I'll be posting meeting dates here until we decide if we all want to maintain a blog just for The Big EveNt or if we'll put in some group space like a Google Site or mooch some Vibe space from Novell.
Stay tuned!
And for those that are curious...nope I don't have a new job yet, but I've got some good interviews under my belt so I'm hopeful that I'll land something soon!
It will still be a user-lead event, but it won't be a strictly WMNUG event any longer. We want all of the Linux, Adobe, Microsoft, VMWare, Novell, SharePoint, HDI, ITIL, PMI, and whomever I'm forgetting user groups in town involved. We want this to be a truly, everything and anything IT related event.
Any ideas or suggestions of what you'd like to see are most welcome as always. And yes, our goal is to keep it free or as cheap as possible to our attendees.
I'll be posting meeting dates here until we decide if we all want to maintain a blog just for The Big EveNt or if we'll put in some group space like a Google Site or mooch some Vibe space from Novell.
Stay tuned!
And for those that are curious...nope I don't have a new job yet, but I've got some good interviews under my belt so I'm hopeful that I'll land something soon!
Monday, January 10, 2011
BrainShare 2011 delayed
I'm sure you've all heard by now that it's delayed, if not, now you know. With the buyout by Attachmate things are simply on hold, it will happen though.
In the meantime, GWAVA is picking up the slack at GWAVACon. And for the US, it's in Torrance this year. Nicely situated between DisneyLand and Magic Mountain, it's also close to the beach. I should know, I worked in Torrance in high school and college. It's where I learned to drive a big rig and operate my first computer - an old NCR mini-system.
Anyway, if you have the approvals and can swing it, I strongly suggest you attend. Not just because I've gone in the past and been a presenter, but because it truly is a worthwhile event and the networking opportunities are even better. I do know the hotel is already sold out, but I'm sure there's still rooms available nearby somewhere.
Besides, who doesn't want to see Richard Bliss on stage doing a prize drawing? :)
In the meantime, GWAVA is picking up the slack at GWAVACon. And for the US, it's in Torrance this year. Nicely situated between DisneyLand and Magic Mountain, it's also close to the beach. I should know, I worked in Torrance in high school and college. It's where I learned to drive a big rig and operate my first computer - an old NCR mini-system.
Anyway, if you have the approvals and can swing it, I strongly suggest you attend. Not just because I've gone in the past and been a presenter, but because it truly is a worthwhile event and the networking opportunities are even better. I do know the hotel is already sold out, but I'm sure there's still rooms available nearby somewhere.
Besides, who doesn't want to see Richard Bliss on stage doing a prize drawing? :)
8201 Error on Archive location in GroupWise 8.x
If you've used GroupWise long at all you've probably seen this error pop up from time to time and you know it has multiple possible causes. However, none of the TIDs that I've come across seem to have the particular issue I've been running into noted. Good news is I have a work around. First though, you'll need some background info.
The symptoms are usually experienced by a new archive user, but not always. What happens is the user goes to Open Archive within the GroupWise client and they immediately get an 8201 error. For some users it moves from an 8201 error to an 8209 error after several unsuccessful attempts to get at the archive. This occurs for PC users only, our Mac users don't get to archive unless it's to their local drive and they have to agree to be responsible for the backup of the archive.
Here's the workaround:
This has worked for everyone reporting the issue here. Hopefully it will work for everyone else as well.
- All of our archive locations are locked by default.
- Default archive locations for this environment are to the users home drives.
- GroupWise version on the backend is 8.01 HP2, client is at 7.03 or higher up to 8.0.2.
- Home drives are on an OES2 SP2 - Linux server
- The server is virtualized on VMWare's VSphere (was ESXi to begin with)
The symptoms are usually experienced by a new archive user, but not always. What happens is the user goes to Open Archive within the GroupWise client and they immediately get an 8201 error. For some users it moves from an 8201 error to an 8209 error after several unsuccessful attempts to get at the archive. This occurs for PC users only, our Mac users don't get to archive unless it's to their local drive and they have to agree to be responsible for the backup of the archive.
Here's the workaround:
- Unlock the archive location for the given user (use ConsoelOne, right click on the user, select Client Options, pick the File Locations tab)
- If there is an existing archive, copy that folder to the user's local drive. I generally use c:\grpwise\archive to keep within the 8.3 file format.
- Close the GroupWise client.
- Open the GroupWise client and change the File Location (Tools | Options) to the new spot on the local drive.
- Have the user select Open Archive.
- Go back to the mailbox.
- Archive a message that is "ok" to potentially lose (only had this happen once, but it's a caveat you'll want to be aware of)
- Open Archive and verify the message is there. Close the GroupWise client.
- Copy the archive from the local drive back up to the server, and lock the archive location again (if you want).
- Open the GroupWise client, verify that the File Location is pointing back to the original location.
- Open Archive, verify that they can see at least the message that was just archived.
This has worked for everyone reporting the issue here. Hopefully it will work for everyone else as well.
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