Groupwise is a nice product by Novell for e-mail and collaboration.
It is NOT compatible with Outlook. I just installed Groupwise 6 on a Vista machine with Outlook 2007 and this was what happened:
- Groupwise installed and rebooted the machine.
- Vista wanted to block the setup upon reboot. I let the setup continue.
- Groupwise starts. When I want to make a message, GW compains about the address book that cannot be found and exits.
- When restarting it, it asked my credentials and started … Outlook !
- Aside from Groupwise Outlook was empty: no other accounts, no exsting mail messages, no addresses, no to do lists. Nothing.
I uninstalled Groupwise. After which Outlook wouldn’t start: “Outlook won’t load because service GWMSP1.dll not started”.
This is what I considered doing:
- looking for the PST files in order to reimport them;
- recreating the existing accounts (but there was no way of creating new accounts and it would not have brought back the old messages
- uninstalling Outlook and reinstalling it (but that wouldn’t have solved problems in the registry)
- reformat the machine and reinstall Windows, then Office
After quite some time of reflection and looking around I found
https://forums.cnet.com/5208-6129_102-0.html?forumID=29&threadID=18051&messageID=196513
where it is advised to delete the Groupwise profile in the registry. That solved the problem.
I saved myself reinstalling my machine…