Groove Workspace Deletion

[IDBS]

I have a question regarding Groove workspace deletion. Let's say that I am
the manager for a given workspace and I then invite several participants.
Let's say that sometime thereafter I accidentally delete the workspace or
suffer some kind of computer failure such that I cannot access the workspace.
What I want to know is this:

1: will participants still be able to use the workspace?
2: if I do a fresh install of groove can I simply be re-invited to the
workspace?
3: who becomes the workspace manager if my account is destroyed and
un-recoverable?

My organization is interested in using Groove but we are concerned about
having a single point of failure for a given workspace (i.e. the managers
workspace).

Thanks!

 

[Jansen, Jeroen2]

Hi IDBS,

Thank you for your questions.

Let me start form the the top.

If you delete the workspace as an manager you will have two deletions
options. Delete workspace and delete workspace for a members. If you do the
first then only you will be out of the workspace everybody else will still
be there and have access but there will be no manager if you were the only
manager in that workspace.
If you use the second option the workspace will be workspace will be deleted
from all members their machines.
So its better to always have 2 managers in workspace because if there is no
manager nobody in that workspace will be able to do manager things.

If you install afresh copy of Groove just use the account file from your old
groove enviroment. You will be able to transfer the workspaces just by using
the get workspace option.
You can transfer them from your other machine (if you still got that
machine) or from the other workspace members.
Your account file has all your contacts and workspaces (empty).

And last but not least if there is something with your workspace then nobody
becomes the manager.

If you need backup for workspaces you can consider the use of a Groove
Databridge server. I can do several things and one of them is Archiving and
backup.

see ya,

Jeroen