how do i invite participant to Groove workspace

[john]

I have MS Groove on my system and want to invite non-Groove users into a
workspace but when they accept invite it takes them through a series of info
requests and downloads but doesnt take them anywhere. Can someone please help?

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]]

they need Groove...the system offers the Trial version automatically

 

[john]

tx gyorgy. so to be clear, you're saying that they must be a liscensed used
and the trial will not work?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

The invitees have to have Groove also.

Note: they don't actually access your workspace. Files you share are
ultimately copied to their computers. This isn't like SharePoint wherein
everyone is accessing files on the same server. Each Groove user has their
own copies of the files. What Groove does is synchronize them so that the
users are all on the same page, so to speak. But, synchronization isn't
instantaneous.

 

[Harlan Grove]

tx gyorgy. so to be clear, you're saying that they must be a
liscensed used and the trial will not work?

....

I'd read this as saying that anyone who wants to use a Groove
workspace would need to have Groove installed on their system
(licensed for a legal install, but, hypothetically, pirate installs
would likely also work).

If these others didn't have Groove on their systems, the Groove server
would provide some sort of redirect to Microsoft's Groove trial site.

This doesn't seem all that much different than Lotus Notes databases
that use forms which are little more than wrappers around embedded
objects. I'd guess Novell Groupwise also works similarly, but I've
never used it.

No doubt Groove works differently than Notes or Groupwise, but all
would require users have their respective client software for full
functionality. FWLIW, Notes/Domino provides partial functionality for
generic browser access. Maybe Groove can be set up to provide partial
functionality for generic browser access. Maybe not. That should be a
consideration when choosing which system to buy.

 

[john]

Thanks for your reply but it was inconclusive. Actually, after much back and
forth, I found out that Groove allows non-Groove licencees to participate if
they download the trial version (which makes sense or how else will consumers
be aware of the program's capabilities). The problem though, is that it is
very time consuming and for someone who is not patricularly invested the
incentive is diminished. The people at Groove need to find a better way. I
feel a bit misled by the retailer and Microsoft.