Client Options for
Novell GroupWise® Sequoia:
Evolution, Outlook, Cross-platform, and More

Doreen Christiani

Network and Systems Management Specialist

Novell, Inc.

Gregory John Pryzby

Network and Systems Management Specialist

Novell, Inc.

Review Client Options

Choosing a Client(s) for your Users

Session Goals

Client Selection Considerations

Platform

Operating system, footprint, local storage

Feature Richness

GroupWise Centric features or Look and Feel important

Third Party tools

Client enhancement, archiving, synchronization

Support

Workstations supported and owned by enterprise

Resource constrained support staff

Client Options

GroupWise Windows Client

GroupWise Cross-Platform Client

GroupWise WebAccess

Novell Evolution™

GroupWise Plug-in for Outlook

Third Party POP3/IMAP and Handheld Clients

GroupWise Client for Windows

Use this Client for:

Full native GroupWise features

Enhancement products utilizing client side APIs

No additional cost for cradle sync to Palm and PocketPC

Low suseptibility to viruses

GroupWise Client for Windows - Sequoia

Yes, there are enhancements to the Windows Client in GroupWise Sequoia!

Updated Look

Today View

Multiple Calendars

PDA Connect available now

GroupWise Cross-Platform Client

Use this client for:

Linux workstations

Macintosh workstations

Most feature complete after Windows client

Cache mode operation

Native GroupWise features

GroupWise Cross-Platform Client

Newest version post GroupWise 6.5 SP3

Spell checker

Rules

Junk Mail

Further enhancements in Sequoia

GroupWise WebAccess

Use this client for:

Online only

LAN and Internet access

IE, Mozilla browsers

WinCE, Palm, other microbrowsers

New in Sequoia

Look and Feel enhancements

Work in Progress folder

Separating viewer agent from WebAccess

Novell Evolution

Use this client for:

Linux Centric users

Small footprint

Feature rich, but not as GroupWise centric as Cross-Platform Client

Integrated with Gnome desktop

Novell Evolution in General

Standards based client (Linux)

Calendaring, iCal

Subscribe to webcal

View multiple calendars

LDAP support

vCard

Palm Sync support for calendar, task list and address book

SMTP, Authenticated SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Exchange 2000/2003

Feature rich e-Mail

Junk mail control, spamassassin

GPG/PGP and S/MIME support

SASL and SSL/TLS

vFolders

Filters, searching

Windows version community project under study

Novell Evolution and GroupWise Sequoia

Evolution V2.0 - Stable

No native GroupWise support

Evolution V2.2 – under development

Native GroupWise support

requires SOAP backend in GroupWise Sequoia

GroupWise 6.5 SP3 partial implementation (non supported)

Novell Evolution and GroupWise Sequoia - Planned Features

Mail

Offline

shared folders

message retraction

Archive of remote mail

Calendar

free/busy search

GroupWise shared folder access

Plugin system for extending Evolution

GroupWise Plug-in
for Microsoft Outlook

Supported features:

E-mail, tasks and notes

Calendaring with busy search

Shared folders

Today view

ActiveSync support (Palm, PocketPC)

.pst files

Offline mode (GW caching)

Delegate support (proxy)

Signatures

Personal and system address books

Outlook 2002/2003

Architecture:

Small Client side component

IMAP access

Third Party POP3/IMAP Clients

Text based

Pine

Elm

Mutt

All use IMAP and/or POP3

May support SSL

Mail only access

No calendar support

Graphical

Eudora

Thunderbird

Mozilla Mail

Handheld Clients

Native Device clients

Third party client non GroupWise native

GroupWise-like client on handheld

Handheld Synchronization

Workstation operating system?

Workstation email client

Cradle, shared or wireless?

Type(s) of handheld devices?

Data types to be synchronized?

NEW

Handheld Synchronization

Cradled Synchronization

Windows

GroupWise PDA Connect V1

Third Party

Linux

Evolution

Mac

cradle synchronization

Wireless

Not dependent upon desktop(s)

Deploying Your Client

GroupWise

ZENworks®

ZENworks Linux Management

Automatic Client Installation CD

Upgrade back end first

Resources

GroupWise Sequoia Beta Program

www.novell.com/beta/auth/request_form.jsp

Novell Evolution Home Page

http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html

Kpilot Home Page

http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/

GroupWise Partner Site

http://www.novell.com/partnerguide/

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