The Basics

[Kurt]

I and a couple of work associates of mine stumbled across Groove 2007 as we
were exploring ways to collaborate over the Internet. We have downloaded the
trial version of Groove 2007, however, it is not intuitive enough for anyone
of us to really get up and running with it yet. We're all busy with our
various projects and don't want to have to take a lot of time reading the
help sessions to figure out how to get started. I understand that we can
link a Groove Workspace with various electronic files that we are
collborating on. Then as we enter (access, open) the Workspace on our
computers we can share those files. Is that a correct understanding? How do
we set up an initial work session and link up those files? I have already
tried setting up a Workspace and sent an invitation to my associates, but I'm
just not sure exactly what's going on.

Is there anyone out there in Grooveland that would want to give us a brief
"How to Get Started with Groove for Dummies?" It would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for you help.

 

[Kurt]

This is a follow up to my previous post...
As I was reading some features in the help section, it contained information
about setting up apointments using a Calendar feature ("Click New
Appointment"). However, this feature does not appear on my trial version of
Groove 2007. It would appear the trial version is not a full blown copy of
Groove. Is this true? Has anyone worked with the trial version that can
provide some helpful advice? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sbmack7]

This is a follow up to my previous post...
As I was reading some features in the help section, it contained information
about setting up apointments using a Calendar feature ("Click New
Appointment"). However, this feature does not appear on my trial version of
Groove 2007.  It would appear the trial version is not a full blown copy of
Groove.  Is this true?  Has anyone worked with the trial version thatcan
provide some helpful advice?  Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Kurt,

MS offers a free Groove training course (online or download).

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=99495

You could blast through that to find the specific information you
need. I bought the book Groove 2007 Step by Step on Amazon, but it
turns out the material is the same as the training course.

SteveM

 

[Frances Selkirk [MSFT]]

As I understand it, the trial version contains all features, although some
are limited in use. "New Appointment" should be right above the name of the
month in the Calendar tool in the Month view. Check again, and if you don't
see it there, I'll try installing the trial version on one of my home PCs. (I
can't look at it on my work PCs, of course, because I'm already using Groove
on all of them!)

 

[Frances Selkirk [MSFT]]

This is a a difficult question to answer, because there are a lot of
different ways to use Groove. I'd suggest looking at my blog article, "How I
use Groove" at
http://blogs.technet.com/weeklygroove/archive/2008/08/25/how-i-use-groove.aspx,
and viewing the two "Video Tips" (each approximately three-minutes long) at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/webcasts/HA102547451033.aspx. After that,
create a new Standard Workspace, and try out a few features.

The videos both talk about Standard workspaces, in which all content it is
kept in Groove. For example, if you have a Word document in a standard
workspace, you have to open that document from the workspace to view or
change it and save it back to the workspace to save and distribute your
changes. You can also create a File Sharing workspace, in which Groove
synchronizes a Windows folder among workspace members, and that folder is
also accessible from the Windows file system. Standard workspaces are more
secure, and because there is more control over input, can save editing
conflicts better, but sometimes you want the greater flexibility of a File
Sharing workspace. If you'll be mainly dealing with files, you many want to
try one of those as well.