GroupWise 8 Support Pack 2
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5.1.1 GroupWise Version Compatibility
If you install GroupWise on multiple platforms, or if you run multiple versions (for example,
GroupWise 6.5 or 7 and GroupWise 8 in the same GroupWise system), refer to the GroupWise
Version Compatibility section in the
GroupWise 8 Installation Guide
(http://www.novell.com/
documentation/gw8)
to make sure that the combinations you are using are supported.
For example, you cannot run a GroupWise 8 client against a GroupWise 7 or earlier post office.
Earlier POAs cannot support later GroupWise clients. However, you can run a GroupWise 7 or
earlier client against a GroupWise 8 POA.
Also, you cannot run the GroupWise 7 or earlier snap-ins to ConsoleOne to access GroupWise 8
databases or eDirectory objects. You can use
Admin Lockout Settings
under
Tools > GroupWise
System Operations > System Preferences
to specify the required version of the ConsoleOne snap-ins
for each domain as needed.
See also
Section 9.1.2, “GroupWise 8 WebAccess Compatibility with Earlier Versions of
WebAccess,” on page 20
.
5.1.2 GroupWise Views Compatibility
When you create a GroupWise 8 post office, the GroupWise 8 client view files are installed. If an
earlier GroupWise client tries to access the GroupWise 8 post office, some of the view files required
by earlier GroupWise clients are not present. If possible, update all users in the post office to the
GroupWise 8 client.
If you need to run earlier GroupWise clients on a new GroupWise 8 post office, you must copy the
missing client view files from a post office where they are available. Client view files are stored in
the following directory for all platforms:
post_office
\ofviews\win
Be sure to copy only the missing files. Some GroupWise 8 view files are new. Some GroupWise
view files have had the language code
us
changed to
en
in GroupWise 8. Some GroupWise 8 view
files have the same names as earlier versions. Do not overwrite GroupWise 8 view files with earlier
versions that have the same names.
5.1.3 WebAccess and Monitor on the Same Web Server
The WebAccess Application, WebPublisher Application, and Monitor Application share a common
library. If you are updating from an earlier GroupWise version and if you run these applications on
the same Web server, you must update all three before any of them can work properly.
5.1.4 SOAP Client Connection Issue during Post Office Updates
For a large post office, a period of time can pass between when the POA starts updating the post
office and when it finishes the update. During this period, programs that connect to POAs by using
SOAP (such as SOAP e-mail clients, GroupWise Mobile Server, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server)
might receive the following error:
53336 - Incompatible Post Office version detected during login
