Transcript Session Title - Hinchman Consulting

Session Number
Consultant's Corner:
A trip down Gateway
Lane
Author Gregg A. Hinchman
Company Hinchman Consulting
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Introduction, Outline
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Introduction
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GWIA
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Best Practices
Redundant/Highly Available Design
GroupWise Exchange Gateway
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Best Practices
Redundant/Highly Available Design
WebAccess
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Speaker
A bit of Business
Best Practices
Summary
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Introduction, Speaker
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Gregg A. Hinchman
 Self-Unemployed Consultant,
www.HinchmanConsulting.com
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12+ years of GroupWise® Experience
6 years of Clustering experience
Author:
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Co-Author:
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“Success with Clustering GroupWise 7”
www.TayKratzer.com
“Success with GroupWise Document
Management”
GroupWise Coolsolutions Articles
GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles
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Introduction, A bit of Business
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Topic
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We will discuss Best Practices for implementing
GWIA, WebAccess and Exchange Gateways.
Format
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Discussion will be led with supporting examples
given.
Questions
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Please hold until 'Question Breaks'
Knowledge:
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Advanced GroupWise 7
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OES Linux/NetWare
Related Sessions:
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Consultant's Corner: GroupWise Redesign
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Success with Clustering GroupWise
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GWIA, Best Practices
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Design Best Practices
 Its own domain
 2 GWIA's
 Highly Available
 Fault Tolerant
 Special Purpose GWIA's
 POP3/IMAP
 Internal ONLY
 The Border
 2 Points of Entry
 AntiSpam/AntiVirus Appliance GWGuardian
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 DNS
GWIA, Best Practices
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Settings Best Practices
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Description -Provide Detail
Network Address -HTTP Port and TCP Port
Bind Exclusively
Logging
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'Logs' directory under the Domain Directory
Verbose Please
Gateway Administrator
Gateway Alias -Migrate them if possible
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GWIA, Best Practices
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Settings Best Practice
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SMTP/MIME
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POP/IMAP
Access Control -Default Class -LDAP/POP3/IMAP On?
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Bind Exclusive
Mailbomb -Set/Not Set
Undeliverable Handling -Set/Not Set
Message Formatting -Flat Forward
Global Signature
Allow Rule Generated Messages?
Post Office Links -Client/Server with IP
Address/DNS
/HOME switch
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GWIA, Best Practices
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GroupWise| Network Address
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GWIA, Best Practices
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GroupWise| Gateway Alias
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GWIA, Best Practices
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SMTP/MIME| Settings
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GWIA, Best Practices
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SMTP/Mime| Message Formatting
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GWIA, Best Practices
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SMTP/MIME| Undeliverables
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GWIA, Redundant/High Availability
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An Example of Redundant GWIA Design
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Planning, Question Break
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Ask'em if you got'em!
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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Design Best Practices
WebAccess Agent
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Its Own domain
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250 to 500 users per Agent
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Disposable Gateway
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2+ WebAccess Agents
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Highly Available
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Fault Tolerant
WebAccess Application
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Up to 1000 users
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2 or more
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Highly Available
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Fault Tolerant
High Availability
Fault Resilient
Content Switches/DNS
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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Settings Best Practice -Agent
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Description -Provide Detail
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Network Address -HTTP Port and TCP Port
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Bind Exclusively
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Logging
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'Logs' directory under the Domain Directory
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Verbose Please
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Gateway Administrator
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WebAccess Maximum Threads
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Encryption Key -The key to redundancy for
WebAccess
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WebPublisher -Install or Not Install?
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Default Class -Agent Timeout
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Post Office Links -Client/Server with IP Address/DNS
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/HOME switch
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/LogDiskOn switch
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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Settings Best Practice -Document Viewer Agent
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No eDirectory Object -MUST use gwdva.dva
configuration file
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/IP
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/Port
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/addrspacename-{wa1dva}
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/maxworkers-10 -”suggested”
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Logging -can be set here -only if needed
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/http -To turn on the HTTP monitor port
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/httpPort -got to have a port number!
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/httpuser -need a user
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/httppw -and a password
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/temp -good as it is -but if you want you can point it
elsewhere
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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Settings Best Practice -Application
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Store in eDirectory Container -NOT a GW Domain
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GroupWiseProvider Object
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Add All Agents for full redundancy
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Busy Search Time out
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GroupWiseWebAccess Object
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Where the configuration file is
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The Upload Path
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Log Settings -Normal ok..but Verbose for Trouble
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Timeout for Inactive Sessions
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Change Password?
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Open Attachments in Native or HTML format?
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Webacc.cfg
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# Application Administration Tool
# Invoked on the URL
# (e.g. http://<server>/gw/webacc?action=Admin.Open)
Admin.WebConsole.enable=true
Admin.WebConsole.username=gwadmin
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Admin.WebConsole.password=novell
WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Agent Settings
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Agent Default Class
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Agent Post Office Links
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Agent Network Address
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess
Object
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess
Object
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WebAccess, Best Practices
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WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess
Object
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WebAccess, Redundant/High
Availability
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WebAccess Application -GroupWiseProvider Object
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WebAccess, Redundant/High
Availability
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WebAccess Highly Available Design
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Planning, Question Break
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Ask'em if you got'em!
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Exchange Gateway, Best Practices
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Best Practices
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Install on the Exchange Server -does not have to be the
'main' mailbox server
Must Install the Addressing Components on all Exchange
Servers with mailboxes for proper sync
Install into its own GroupWise Domain (EXCHDOM) -my
name for it.
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EXCHDOM should run on the Exchange server local to
its EXCHGATE -The Exchange Gateway
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You need the Novell Client AND ConsoleOne on the
Exchange server -easiest way to manage it.
Active Directory with full administrator to the local servers
-again easiest
eDirectory -Use an Admin equivalent -easiest.
“Interact with Desktop” for MTA Screen -does not work for
Exchange Gateway screen
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Must set a “Run As” or in Startup as an application for
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the 'screen'.
Exchange Gateway, Best Practices
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Exchange Gateway -Run As
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Exchange Gateway, Best Practices
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Exchange Gateway -Optional Gateway Settings
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Exchange Gateway, Best Practices
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Exchange Gateway -Screen
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Summary
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Business Analysis
What can you afford?
What can you do for 'free'?
Audit the GroupWise System
Adjust settings for optimal performance
Plan, Plan, Plan
Document, Document, Document
Training
Hire the Expertise
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Open the existing slide show in PowerPoint.
From the Format menu, select Apply Design
Select the groupwise.pot template, and click
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If your title slide doesn’t reflect the new style,
delete it from your presentation. From the
Insert menu, select New Slide, choose Title
Slide and update the session information,
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Slide Guidelines
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To create a slide show with a consistent look
that is easy for people to read (including people
in the back of the room), please follow these
guidelines.
Your slides should emphasize key points.
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Max 9 lines per slide
Max 9 words per line
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End your slides 3/4 of the way down. Do not
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Working with Speaker Notes
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Speaker Notes give you a place to provide
additional documentation or explanation to the
bulleted points on your slides.
To add or edit Speaker Notes, go to the View
menu and choose Notes Page.
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While in this view, you can only edit notes. To go
back to editing your presentation, double click on
the slide or choose slide from the View menu.
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