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Discover GrooveIT! Backup solutions for SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Office Groove 2007

Managing your workspaces archives is now easier and safer than ever.

 

GrooveIT! Backup solutions enable users to archive SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Office Groove 2007 workspaces in a simple and convenient way whilst making archive retrieval straightforward.

Have peace of mind knowing your or your users’ backed up workspaces can be restored at any time.

 

Choose the GrooveIT! Backup Edition according to the way you work with SharePoint Workspace 2010 or Office Groove 2007:

• GrooveIT! Backup - Personal Edition aimed at individuals who need to manage their own personal archives only.
• GrooveIT! Backup - Enterprise Edition, a centrally managed edition, aimed at companies and organizations for all employees’ workspaces.

Discover the GrooveIT! Backup edition that suits your requirements. Get a free trial now

GrooveIT! Backup is now available at a special price before the end of its beta period

Buy your GrooveIT! Backup personal Edition license

GrooveIT! Backup your personal backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint Workspace and Microsoft Office Groove 2007.



GrooveIT! Backup beta period is nearly over, we are currently finalizing the RTM version which will include the following functionalities:

• Backup your SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove 2007 workspaces on request
• Plan your backups, they will occur in an automated fashion
• Secure your archives with a password
• Choose your archive locations: local hard drive or network shares
• Display your archive’s listing

GrooveIT! Backup works with SharePoint Workspace 2010 (32 and 64 bits versions), Office Groove 2007 and Groove Virtual Office 3.1, the application can backup workspaces and also “file sharing” type workspaces.

The future release of GrooveIT! Backup will not support SharePoint basic offline workspaces (workspaces that cannot be shared with team members).

 

Until the RTM date, GrooveIT! Backup license will be available with a 25% discount.
Download GrooveIT! Backup beta version, the trial is free.

Personal backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint Workspace and Groove workspaces is available

Discover GrooveIT! Backup* to save your Groove and SharePoint workspaces in an easy and convenient way.

You have been expecting a personal backup solution for Microsoft SharePoint Workspace and Groove workspaces for a long time; we are pleased to introduce new GrooveIT! Backup to you.

On demand or planned backups for your Groove workspaces

With GrooveIT! Backup you will be able to save any number of Groove workspaces on demand or scheduled so that they occur in an automated way within a defined time interval.
GrooveIT! Backup enables to secure  teams’ data; it gives you the peace of mind knowing that you will be able to recover data at any time even if a workspace has been accidently deleted or files within a workspaces suppressed or after a machine crash or a computer snatching.
 

Ask for a GrooveIT! Backup free trial

GrooveIT! Backup beta release* is available on our website, go to HOMMES & PROCESS solutions website and ask for your trial copy. We are looking forward to receiving your feedbacks.

 * Free trial license valid until 2010/09/15.

Backup solution for Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint Workspace 2010

GrooveIT! Backup will launch in few days.

Trials will be available from HOMMES & PROCESS solutions website.

Simple to use, GrooveIT! Backup ensures data integrity for your SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove 2007 workspaces. Discover GrooveIT! Backup...

 

On-demand or scheduled backups

You can choose the way you want to make your backups: either on demand or scheduled, selected workspaces only or all of them.

With GrooveIT! Backup, you will be able to recover your workspaces when needed even if a workspace or file is deleted by accident, a laptop has been stolen or after a hard drive crash.

Register here to receive your free trial as soon as it is available.

GrooveIT! for My Calendars : all your Groove calendars in a single view

GrooveIT! for My Calendars enables you to consolidate views of all your Groove calendars. Navigate within your calendars, view and manage all your tasks, appointments and meetings from a single place.

How to step by step

To manage all your calendars from a single place, follow the following instructions for each of your calendars that you would like to manage.

1. Click on the “add a calendar” button In the GrooveIT! tool left panel.
2. Choose the Groove “plug in” and click next.
3. Choose the Groove workspace and the calendar.
4. Click finish.

Wait a few seconds until GrooveIT! for My Calendars has updated the information.

Groove calendars management in a single place is made easy with GrooveIT! for My Calendars.

GrooveIT! for My Documents makes your SharePoint documents available in your Groove workspaces

Using GrooveIT! for My Documents you can choose one or more documents from your SharePoint libraries and send them to the chosen Groove workspace in an easy and convenient way.

Start by downloading a free trial of GrooveIT! for My Documents from solutions.hommesetprocess.com.

How to transfer your SharePoint libraries documents to Groove using GrooveIT! for My Documents:

1. Activate the SharePoint connector on the left panel of GrooveIT! user interface.
2. Click “Manage”
3. You will see a screen listing your SharePoint libraries
4. Select the SharePoint site from which you would like to transfer documents to Groove
5. Double click on the files to select them; they will appear in the publication list
6. Select your Groove account (if needed), the Groove workspace and the destination directory on the right panel
7. Click “publish” to finish.

Use GrooveIT! for My Documents to easily share your SharePoint documents with your team.

Use GrooveIT! rules to facilitate your email management

GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook allows you to send Outlook emails, contacts, appointments, tasks and RSS feeds straight to Office Groove 2007. You can do this manually using the "Send to Groove" button or automate these tasks using GrooveIT! rules attached to folders.  Different rules can be applied to different folders.

GrooveIT! rules can be applied in such a way that all new items  a are automatically published or only those that match certain criteria (for example,  the subject, sender, etc.).

How to create a GrooveIT! rule

To create a GrooveIT! rule, right click on the folder you want to send to Groove, choose “create a rule”, then follow the instructions to automate the sending of Outlook elements to your chosen Groove workspace.

Optimize emails management using both Outlook and GrooveIT! rules

For example, you may have created an Outlook rule to detect emails coming in from your customer and automatically send them to a folder called customer. By creating a GrooveIT! rule on that folder, your customer emails will be sent to Groove in an easy and convenient way.

Have a look at the screenshot below to see how GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook 2.5 can help you refine your emails management.

Use GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook to improve collaboration on your projects by automatically transferring specific elements from Outlook to Groove.

Use GrooveIT! for Microsoft SharePoint to make your SharePoint 2007 files mobile

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 SharePoint tool enables you to go mobile with SharePoint libraries items. However, it is not always easy to configure SharePoint from Microsoft Groove 2007. With GrooveIT! for SharePoint, you can  easily have this up and running with just a few clicks.

How to take SharePoint files offline with Groove

First go to HOMMES & PROCESS’s web site, then, download a free trial and install GrooveIT! for SharePoint.

On opening Internet Explorer, you will see a new button called “offline documents”. Go to the SharePoint document library you are interested in, click on the “offline document” button, choose a destination Groove workspace and validate. A new Groove workspace will be created.  You can then download the available SharePoint files by clicking the “synchronize now” button.

Your SharePoint documents off-line step by step:

1. Navigate to the SharePoint document library
2. Click the “offline documents” button
3. Give a name to the destination Groove workspace that will be created
4. Click the “synchronize now” button

Use GrooveIT! for SharePoint with Office Groove 2007 and SharePoint 2007 (or BPOS) to benefit immediately from new functionality introduced in the 2010 releases of SharePoint Workspace (new name for Groove) and SharePoint 

Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint Workspace 2010 evaluation

Last week Microsoft officially launched their latest Office 2010 Enterprise Suite.
This latest mould of Microsoft Office is available in four distinct versions:

• Office Home and Business 2010 including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.
• Office Standard 2010 includes Office Home and Business 2010 version’s programs plus Publisher.
• Office Professional 2010 includes Office Standard 2010 version’s programs plus Access.
• Office Professional Plus 2010 includes Office Professional 2010 version’s programs plus Infopath, Communicator and SharePoint Workspace.

Obviously if you follow this blog avidly you will understand that it’s the latest  version that interests you. You can evaluate this version for up to  60 days.
Below we’ve proposed two download links for you to evaluate Office 2010 :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390822.aspx

or

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx

To optimize the integration de SharePoint Workspace 2010 with Office Outlook 2010 and SharePoint 2007, use GrooveIT! for Outlook and GrooveIT! for SharePoint ! You will gain even more in treating documents and efficiency.

How to be environment-friendly using GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook

If you use VoIP (Voice over IP), you probably already benefit from the "fax to email" option enabling you to receive your faxes in your Outlook emailbox.

You can go one step further with GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook, setting or defining a rule on your fax inbox so that they will automatically be published in a the chosen  Groove workspace. Each fax you receive will be saved as a file within SharePoint Workspace or Groove.

Efficient and cost saving, GrooveIT! can help you:

Reduce costs

No need to print received faxes; they are stored in the right place. Cut office supplies spending (paper, ink, print toner)

A gesture for the planet

Print only what you really need

Save time

Faxes are automatically managed and sent to Groove by GrooveIT! You get an alert when a new one comes in.

Mobile access

Receive and access fax information wherever you are.

Avoid unsolicited messages

80% of faxes received are unsolicited messages. Use GrooveIT! filtering capability to suppress them.