Creating a Basic GroupWise Messenger System

GroupWise Messenger is simple to install. This section states some obvious points and indicates some potential trouble areas.

Preparation

There is no GroupWise Messenger administration view, as there is for GroupWise. I therefore recommend that you create a new eDirectory OU to house the components of your GroupWise Messenger system that you will be administering. You might call this OU IM or GWIM. Where you put the OU is not all that important from an eDirectory tree walking perspective. When your users populate their buddy lists, they will be adding data to the partitions they happen to be in. Your users do not need any additional eDirectory rights to use GroupWise Messenger. The GroupWise Messenger logs in as sort of a “superuser” on behalf of all users. From an administration standpoint, you can control who users can see. So in effect you can make some users invisible to the GroupWise Messenger system.