We have been asked by many customers whether we will have an "update" to the GroupWise 7 Upgrade Guide for Service Pack 1. After much contemplation, we have decided that there are simply not enough changes to warrant updating the book. Rather, we have decided to simply outline the changes here that need to be made for the upgrade. The following information assumes that you are going to upgrade directly from your former GroupWise version to GroupWise 7 SP1.

If you are looking for the GroupWise 7 Upgrade Guide, you can find it here.

Creating the Master Software Distribution Directory

Chapter 3 begins the actual "work" of the upgrade, and here is where the major change to the installation will be encountered. Download the Service Pack files from the Novell site (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/20641/index.html). Then on page 29, change Step 4 to:

4. Extract the contents of the service pack into the directory you have chosen as the Software Distribution Directory, making certain that the directories directly under the SDD location are the /admin /agents, etc. directories from the SP.

5. From the original GroupWise 7 CD, copy the /domain and /po directories into the SDD location, overwriting the contents of the existing /domain and /po directories that were created when you extracted the SP. Do not overwrite newer files.

The existing Step 5 on page 29 will now be irrelevant, as the SP includes the /client directory as well, so this step can be ignored.

Follow the guide from this point on, using this SDD as your installation location. There are only a few other SP1 considerations, which are listed below.

ConsoleOne Snapins

It is very important that you only use GW7SP1 ConsoleOne snapins to administer a GW7SP1 domain. This is due to how some addressing issues were changed for SP1. The changes and the dangers are outlined in the readme for GW7SP1. If you wish, you can even lock out older versions of ConsoleOne by going to Tools|GroupWise System Operations|System Preferences|Admin Lockout Settings.

Upgrading the GWIA

Chapter 7 covers upgrading the GroupWise Internet Agent. With SP1 Novell is moving the GWIA settings from the gwia.cfg ino the wpdomain.db file so that the GWIA will follow the same pattern as other agents (i.e., reading its settings directly from the wpdomain.db file). The gwia.cfg can still be used to "override" settings, but the preferred method will be to have the settings in the wpdomain.db file. While in the past we have recommended using the /copyonly switch for an upgrade, this migration of settings will not happen unless you run a standard GWIA installation.

We hope that these few recommendations for upgrading directly to GW7SP1 will assist you in your upgrade. Please be sure to let us know if you have any further questions!