GroupWise System Preferences

Use GroupWise® System Preferences to configure general preferences that apply to your entire GroupWise system. The following sections correspond to the tabs in the GroupWise System Preferences dialog box.

Admin Preferences
Provides control over how rights are assigned and what network ID format is used when creating new GroupWise users.

Set Access Rights Automatically
Select When Creating a GroupWise User to automatically set the Novell® eDirectoryTM object rights and file system rights for each GroupWise user you create.

Appropriate eDirectory object rights enable the GroupWise client to log in to the user's post office without prompting the user for the post office location (IP address, UNC path, or mapped drive.)

Appropriate file system rights enable the GroupWise client to directly access the post office directory rather than use client/server access.

When Creating or Modifying Objects, for Network ID Use
Sets the default format for storing the user's network ID in the post office database.

Full Distinguished Name
Select Full Distinguished Name (for example, paul.engineering.ny) when users' mailboxes reside on a NetWare® 4.1x server (or higher) and users have an eDirectory connection to the server where the post office resides.
Common Name
Select Common Name (for example, paul) under the following circumstances:

Display DirXML Warnings
The DirXML® Driver for GroupWise provides data integration between GroupWise users and groups in eDirectory. For example, you can have an e-mail account automatically created as soon as an employee is hired. The same driver can also disable an e-mail account when a user is no longer active.

If you are using the DirXML Driver for GroupWise, some GroupWise operations that you perform in ConsoleOne® require you to take preliminary actions with the driver. For example, if you recover a deleted account, you need to stop the driver before recovering the account and restart it after the operation is complete.

This option enables you to receive a warning message whenever you perform a GroupWise operation in ConsoleOne that will be affected by the DirXML driver. The warning message includes instructions about the actions you need to take with the driver before continuing with the GroupWise operation. If you are using the DirXML Driver for GroupWise, we strongly recommend that you enable this option. If you are not using the driver, you can disable the option to avoid receiving unnecessary messages.

Routing Options
Provides additional control over how messages flow through your GroupWise system. The default routing options you establish here apply to all MTAs in your GroupWise system. You can, however, override these system settings for individual MTAs (MTA object > GroupWise tab > Routing Options page).

Default Routing Domain
The default routing domain provides a centralized routing point for all messages. A routing domain takes precedence over specific links established when domains were created or modified with the Link Configuration Tool.
Browse to and select the default routing domain for your GroupWise system. Click Clear to remove the default routing domain specification from your GroupWise system.
Force All Messages to This Domain
Select this option if you want all GroupWise messages to pass through the routing domain regardless of the destination of the message. If you leave this box deselected, only undeliverable messages are routed to the default routing domain.
MTAs Send Directly to Other GroupWise Systems
Select this option if you want all MTAs in your GroupWise system to perform DNS lookups and route messages out across the Internet. If you deselect this option, you can individually designate which MTAs should perform DNS lookups and route messages out across the Internet (MTA object > GroupWise tab > Routing Options page).

External Access Rights
Use the external access rights settings to control the types of responses your GroupWise system will make to users of other GroupWise systems.

Allow External Busy Search
Select this option to allow users in other GroupWise systems to perform busy searches on users in your GroupWise system.

Allow External Status Tracking
Select this option to enable users in other GroupWise systems to receive message status information (such as whether a message has been delivered, opened, and so on) when messages arrive in your GroupWise system.

Nickname Settings
Use the nickname settings to control what happens when you move a user from one post office to another.

Auto-Create On User Move
Whenever you move a user, GroupWise can automatically create a nickname with the user's old name and old post office. This enables messages sent to the old name to be automatically forwarded to the user's new address. Select whether or not you want GroupWise to never create nicknames, always create nicknames, or prompt you during the move process. By default, the nicknames expire after 30 days.

Expire After
Select Expire After if you want the nickname to be automatically removed after the number of days you specify. Valid values range from 1 to 365. A setting of 0 indicates that the nickname will not be automatically removed.

Default Password
Specify the default password you want assigned to new GroupWise user accounts.

Admin Lockout Settings
Use the admin lockout settings to control access to the GroupWise administration functions in ConsoleOne.

Restrict System Operations to Primary Domain
Disable this option to allow an administrator to perform all system operations (Tools menu > GroupWise System Operations) when he or she is not connected to the primary domain. This option is enabled by default, which means that all operations, except Select Domain, Pending Requests, Software Directory Management, and Restore Area Management, are unavailable when the administrator is connected to a secondary domain.

Lock Out Older GroupWise Administration Snap-Ins
Enable this option to prevent administrators from using older GroupWise ConsoleOne snap-ins for accessing GroupWise objects in eDirectory. You can override these system lockout settings for individual domains (Domain object > GroupWise tab > Admin Lockout Settings page).

There are four GroupWise snap-ins to ConsoleOne, one for general administration, one for Internet Agent administration, and two for WebAccess administration. The ability to lock out older GroupWise snap-ins starts with GroupWise 6.5.

Minimum Snap-In Release Version (x.x.x)
Specify the version number of the oldest GroupWise snap-ins that can be used to administer your GroupWise system.

Minimum Snap-in Release Date
Select the date of the oldest GroupWise snap-ins that can be used to administer your GroupWise system.

You can specify the minimum version, the minimum date, or both. If you specify both minimums, any administrator using snap-ins that are older than both minimums cannot use the GroupWise snap-ins. However, such an administrator can still run ConsoleOne for other purposes but must update the GroupWise snap-ins before GroupWise administration features will be available again.

Archive Service Settings
Use the archive service settings to select the default archive service trusted application for your GroupWise system.

Linux Mount Directory
When you first start ConsoleOne on Linux* with the GroupWise Administrator snap-ins installed, you are prompted for a mount directory. You can change the mount directory here. When you run ConsoleOne on a workstation or on a server where no domain resides, you must mount at least one file system where a domain is located so that the GroupWise Administrator snap-ins in ConsoleOne can access a domain database (wpdomain.db). Domains can reside on Linux servers, NetWare servers, or Windows servers.

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