This just in from The Preventer Of Internet Services ICTS:
Dear UCT Staff and Students,
Remember to install the latest GroupWise client (GroupWise 8.0.2) as soon as possible as it contains the latest bug fixes and patches.
It can be installed from the following sources:
The ZENworks Application folder on the Desktop (Recommended for Windows network users)
The Downloads page on the ICTS website (Recommended for Apple Mac and Linux users)
A script on the Y: drive (Windows network users only)
Installation disks available from the ICTS Front Office (Windows users only)
How do I install GroupWise client version 8.0.2?
Ummmm...how to phrase this...?
Dear ICTS:
This message presupposes that we WANT to install the latest GroupWise client - which we may not want to do?
In fact, in my case, I have finally ALMOST extricated myself from its dead clutches, by being in the throes of UNarchiving all the stuff I stored when I actually, honestly believed that I should be doing my thing for UCT and using the stupid system - after having successfully avoided doing so for a good few months. And having unarchived it, moved it into Outlook 2007, along with all of the stuff on the server, which is where ALL my email dating back YEARS, is stored - in sensible folders, archived by date. Which I couldn't move over to GroupWise, because it is a clunky, stupid, unintuitive, user-unfriendly piece of sh1t.
Which I don't intend to install.
So thank you, but no thank you.
Sincerely,
The Retroid Kollectiv
And I note that I can have a local Inbox, a GroupWise Inbox, AND a Gmail inbox, all open in the same Outlook client - if I want to.
Which I don't, generally, as using my Firefox browser to open Gmail is MUCH easier.
Ah, well...hopefully, from rumours floating about, this is the last twitch of a dying system. Roll on the cloud!!
Note added in proof, >1 hr later:
Of course, GroupSTUPID!! has the last word - unarchiving simply doesn't work...!!!! Not in a human timeframe, anyway.
PPS: OK, it did EVENTUALLY work - after hours! Then sucking the whole lot over to Outlook took FAAAAAAAR les time. Tells you something!
