What is GroupWise Web
In GroupWise 18.2, Micro Focus is pleased to introduce GroupWise Web. GroupWise Web has an updated UI to access your GroupWise mailbox on mobile devices, tablets, and desktops through your web browser.
While the feature sets are not identical, in the next release of GroupWise, GroupWise Web will replace GroupWise WebAccess. In GroupWise 18.2, you can continue to use WebAccess and introduce GroupWise Web dependent on your organization’s needs. We highly encourage you to transition your users from WebAccess to GroupWise Web.
As GroupWise Web will be replacing WebAccess, all new features and enhancements will only be added to GroupWise Web and not WebAccess. WebAccess will continue to be supported until the next release of GroupWise.
Available Features
As this is a tech preview, all features are not currently available in the software.
August 26, 2020
- General and mobile bug fixes
- Proxy is avaible for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and mobile devices (iOS and Android). Two parts of proxy are still being developed and tested: proxy on tablets and folder management. Both of these will be available in a later tech preview release.
NOTE: Make sure popups are allowed as proxy opens a new window/tab to access the proxied account.
Known Issues for Proxy:
- There is a delay on a proxied user's logout when closing the tab/window instead of using logout.
- The "keep me logged in" option is not honored if you close the tab or window of your main mailbox while proxied in another window/tab. You will be prompted to log back in when you access your mailbox again.
- Some soap sessions are not being logged out in the backend when a proxy session is closed in the browser.
- A user cannot turn on an Out of Office rule unless they have both rules rights and appointment write rights. Attempting to do so without these rights clears the Out of Office rule.
- When a user who is proxied into another user turns off an Out of Office rule before it has expired, the appointment created by the rule does not get removed
Known Issue:
Items are not being marked ready when loaded in the preview pane until the mailbox/folder is updated. We are currently investigating this and it will be fixed in a later tech preview release.
NOTE: You need to update the GroupWise Post Office Agent for this update.
July 21, 2020
- Resolved issues with URLs not loading correctly.
- Added the ability to load URLs that are embedded in text.
- Renamed Vacation Rule to Out of Office Rule.
- Improvements in item selection in the item list using the arrow keys.
- Usability improvements in the global search.
- Resolved incorrect sizing of messages with long single-line text and/or large images.
- General and mobile bug fixes.
May 6, 2020
- Enhanced TLS configuration: The TLS setting now defaults to Intermediate configuration. Please visit https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS for additional details. If you provide the TLS certificates, they should be compatible with this configuration.
- General and mobile bug fixes
- Bug fixes:
- URLs in the message body of a plain text item are now clickable.
- Improved category naming functionality.
- Improved Address Book filter to include Organization type items in the results.
- Improved Address Book filter to look up a Contact by email address.
- Resolved filter inconsistencies in both Mailbox and Contact views.
- Resolved partial display of drop-down menus.
March 5, 2020
- Enhanced quick reply to show a status message when reply is sending and sent.
- Localization enhancements.
January 24, 2020
- Users can now select "Keep Me Logged In" if they want GW Web to automatically login. Note: When using a shortcut app in iOS 12 to access GW Web, users are still auto logged in even if "Keep Me Logged In" is unchecked.
- When a user clicks on an email address in GW Web, it opens a compose window instead of the OS launching the native mail handler.
- Users can invite other users to scheduled meetings.
October 31, 2019 - 18.2 release
GroupWise Web official release date. A new Docker repository has been created for the release https://hub.docker.com/r/mfgroupwise/web.
This site will serve as a continuous tech preview site for the GroupWise Web. The web-config utility has also been moved for the tech preview and is now at https://hub.docker.com/r/mfgroupwise/webacc-ng-config.
Tested Platforms
- Chrome, Firefox, Safari.
- iPhone and iPad: iOS 11 and above.
- Samsung phone and tablets: Android 8 (Oreo) or later.
- Docker 17.0.9 on SLES 12 and SLES 15.