Outlook has proven to be the biggest disappointment so far. It's only been a few months, but I'm not impressed at all. This thing is so messed up that even when you "logout" out of the web client, it doesn't log you out. I tried to follow the advice here from several people and from other forums, but Outlook may be a great thing for people who don't do much with, or don't rely on email as much as some of us do.
The interface is terrible, not intuitive enough. I'll give you one example that to me is extremely exasperating. I want to create a new email to a colleague that I've never sent an email from Outlook before; so, I position the cursor at the "To:" field and start typing the guy's name, and guess what happens? I know the guy is in the address book, but his name will NOT show up right away. Who in the world was the genius who came up with this crap? Reminder Notes are NOT meant to be all-day appointments.
Appt am, b back am", or something like: "JAY: Coming in late, around am. I just want to let a few number of people, or just my team, or just my manager and director what to expect from me at a certain time on a given day, I don't want appointments in my calendar. I'm not ranting because I want Groupwise back, what is done is done, but if Outlook was supposed to be a better choice, it has certainly proven to be a tremendous waste of time, and it has some major security holes that need to be fixed.
I don't know if Groupwise was a headache to deal with for IT, maybe it was, but as a developer end-user, it was a great tool, and it worked. I've setup about 37 rules in Outlook to place email in their corresponding folders, only 9 of those rules work, and there's no typo, syntax, or anything obvious enough that you can say, "of course" that's what the problem is, that's why my rule ain't working.
Grouwpise rules can get very complex, but the damn thing actually works. Let's not get into archiving because to this day, nobody has been able to migrate my archives to Outlook, the migrating tool simply doesn't work, and my archive is actually on Windows.
Again, it's only been a few months, but like fahadmahmood said it, what were these suits thinking when they asked us to migrate to Outlook when we use Linux, and even the Windows client leaves much to be desired. Waste of money if you ask me to move from what was paid for to Outlook, which doesn't really deliver with the basic stuff. I'm hoping their web client improves 'cause right now, it's truly a POS.
I was holding hope, considering that Outlook has been the favorite of many, but not impressed at all here with it at this point in time. I noticed in this thread that the Pro-exchange people seemed to be very quick to discount the power and features that Groupwise administrators and users utilize on a daily basis.
Although Exchange is popular and enjoys millions of seats, it seems realistic to give competing technologies their due consideration. Seeing comments like "Groupwise people can't learn or unwilling to change" is not entirely fair. Change just for the sake of change doesn't seem prudent. When a system works very well, has all the features necessary for an organization to work, and does some of the functions better than Exchange, give the system credit.
If the technology that Novell created and has upgraded over the years ceased to function, people would be less likely to use it. I have used both clients Groupwise and Outlook. I have a preference. Doesn't mean the Outlook people are wrong.. To my knowledge, that is not currently available in Exchange. If I am incorrect, I am willing to stand corrected. Let us not forget you can typically update a groupwise back end without your users noticing too.
Well, we had a meeting with the management staff for this client. That changed the conversation dramatically. We started talking about our real use of MS Office in the organization.
We discussed the webmail angle. We looked at our licensing needs, and determined that if we broke our Microsoft addiction, we could switch most users over to LibreOffice, and go Groupwise for email. This client doesn't want their email in the cloud personal preference. A year later, we are still happy with the decision. But then these requests keep on coming.
GroupWise is dead, long live GroupWise…. See an interesting view on email platform market share info here. That is a lot of companies! Companies are still using GroupWise. The latest GroupWise version is GroupWise It also supports the platforms and devices admins need, and even flexes itself to work with Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange.
Need to run both GroupWise and Exchange simultaneously in your environment? Don't worry — you can do that with Coexistence Solution for Exchange. With the [Micro Focus] solution, we are able to automate what we are actually doing.
We don't define our processes by the tools we use, but by the way we want to do business. GroupWise Features. Wander while you work GroupWise gives employees robust email, calendaring, task management, and contact management tools wherever they wander.
Social threading. Home view GroupWise gives you a Home View — a personal productivity dashboard that consolidates the tools and web applications you interact with most for any given aspect of your work. Scheduling View and manage your appointments, tasks, and reminder notes in a Calendar view. Task management. Easier attachments Email can quickly be bogged down with attachments, especially when the same version of a file gets stored again and again.
Contact management. Some are random, like taking vacation days. GroupWise has a calendar where you can just point and click the dates you want to recur.
Outlook does not. To use the recurring feature in Outlook, there must be a pattern. In Outlook, there is no popout. So a lengthy subject or a place or the from or the due date of a task is viewable only when you open the item.
Yes, it's a few seconds - but when you do it dozens of time a day, that adds up. Therefore, when the organizer changes the appointment, an additional message is sent to the original recipient to alert them. If the recipient deletes that email notice, the calendar item is not updated yes, it's true, folks!
Ditto when deleting an item: the recipient must click "Remove from Calendar" or the item will stay on there forever. Also, for any update, if the recipient acknowledged the update on the calendar, the matching email that arrived stays in the inbox until the user deletes it.
If you do a lot of calendaring in GroupWise, the Outlook calendar is very painful. There are several more issues regarding calendaring in Outlook that I won't take space to go into here.
Recurring appointments : if you delete a recurring appointment in Outlook, it does not go to the Trash. It is not recoverable - and you are out of luck. The organizer of the appointment automatically gets a copy of the appointment put on their own calendar. If that tracking copy is deleted also out of Deleted Items , there is no way to manage that item. Yep, just click and drag the appointment is all it takes. They get no warning they've done it. The organizer gets no warning they've done it.
The only fix is for the organizer of that appointment to send an update how would she know she should? Remember, a copy of the task is sent to the recipient and changes to tasks require an update message to be sent. For tasks, apparently Outlook is unable to update tasks if sent to multiple people. Therefore, if you sent a task to 2 folks and then you need to change the task or recall it, you cannot. That change or removal would have to be done individually for each recipient.
The task list that appears on the Day or the Week view is a static list of tasks as of today. Clicking on a day in the future changes only the appointments, not the tasks. Therefore, to see future tasks, you must look at the task list where there is no calendar. However, in Outlook when you do this, if the email had an attachment, that attachment is gone. Only the contents of the email stay intact.
This is very convenient when needing to select several people. In Outlook, you cannot. But there are many resources that need an actual account for a variety of reasons. All accounts in Exchange require a license, even those tho are not real people. Even conference rooms often need an account, having a public folder may not be sufficient. Internal folks get a link to the document so any changes they might make are updated in the actual document.
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