Most of our users are working with shared folders. But sometimes it happens that a colleague leaves the company. In this case it is a problem to delete the account if he is the owner of a shared folder. It would be great if there is a right to take the ownership of a shared folder so that an other user can be take the ownership.

by: Markus D. | over a year ago | Windows Client

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• To mitigate that we use shared folders from resources

  by: Mathias F. | over a year ago

• We've been crying out for this for 10 years now. Please add it as it can take many hours of man time to migrate folders across from old accounts.

  by: Mark D. | over a year ago

• There is a third party product for this, but it would be a nice addition for Groupwise to address natively.

  by: Danita Z. | over a year ago

• I'm aware of a third party product that does this (I have it), but I am having problems getting it to run properly and I cannot get a response from the developer. So I really think Novell needs to add this in to the product.

  by: Ken E. | over a year ago

• I wasn´t aware of a third party tool that can do that, any hint to which one that would be? And does it include also tranferring the ownership of calendars to another user?

  by: Anke S. | over a year ago

• GroupWise Shared Folder Maintenance Utility - available here: http://postie.caledonia.net/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=37&product_id=73
  
  I haven't had to move a shared folder in a while. But this utility also has the ability to clean up duplicate emails in shared folders (example: two users receive the same email and both put it in the shared folder - happens a lot here) When running the remove duplicates feature, the utility has been throwing errors. I'm not sure if it is from running on Windows 7 or running against GroupWise 2014. Unfortunately, the creator of this utility hasn't been able to update it lately (no fault of his or Novell). I think Novell just needs to give us more control over shared folders (change ownership and clean up duplicate emails, etc).

  by: Ken E. | over a year ago

• That option is very well overdue. I will say that I am waiting for that for a looooooong time!

  by: Alain S. | over a year ago

• This is planned for GroupWise 14.2.1 release

  by: Mike Bills | over a year ago

  official response

• Thanks Mike!

  by: Ken E. | over a year ago

• Yes, hourra.

  by: Alain S. | over a year ago

• Any chance that it will prevent the deletion of an account with Shared folders or at least prompt before the deletion.

  by: Delon W. | over a year ago

• Delon, That is a good idea. I currently manually check for shared folders before deleting an account. But your suggestion would be very helpful!

  by: Ken E. | over a year ago

• Please add support for this in the SOAP-API

  by: Hans B. | over a year ago

• What happens to the archives of the shared folders?

  by: Tantor K. | over a year ago