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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.

When MVPs speak about SharePoint 2010…

At the Microsoft MVP Summit, Jean-Michel Davault, Managing Director at HOMMES & PROCESS, Rob Foster, Matthew McDermott, Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Sean Wallbridge, Asif Rehmani and Yaroslav Pentsarskyy shared their thoughts about the SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Workspace 2010.

In this 9-minute video, they discuss the ribbon User Interface, social features, Site and feature enhancements, Office Web Applications, Themes and branding, Search improvements, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint Workspace and SharePoint Designer.

For more details about these features, follow this link.

Share and exchange info with our technical teams

Discover HOMMES & PROCESS’s new community website; a place to share your experience and learn more about GrooveIT! applications and HOMMES & PROCESS solutions.

If you have any questions, need some feedback or support requests... let us know. Our teams will give you prompt answers.

Several forums will cohabit there to answer question about our GrooveIT! line of products, Groove/SharePoint workspace trusted Domain, Backup Enforcer and Workspace Dashboard and also Office Groove 2007 and SharePoint Workspace 2010 of course.

Register here!

We are looking forward to hearing from you

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.

Backup Enforcer makes sure all Groove workspaces are backed up

A few weeks ago, HOMMES & PROCESS announced GrooveIT! for Microsoft Office Outlook and GrooveIT! for Microsoft SharePoint compatibility with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

We are pleased to let you know that Backup Enforcer also passed successfully the Windows 7 compatibility test.

Backup Enforcer ensures your Groove data backup

Use Backup Enforcer to ensure all Groove users’ workspaces are correctly backed up.

How does Backup Enforcer work?

For all Groove workspaces, it continually verifies the backup agent’s presence and, where missing, invites it so that all data is correctly protected against loss: machine crashes or theft, accidental deletion of workspace or files, etc. With Backup Enforcer in use, data recovery will only cost a phone call to the administrator.

 

Use Backup Enforcer in a flexible way according to your organization’s security policies

With Backup Enforcer, you can adapt usage according to the internal policies: personalized configuration enables workspace exclusion, Groove identities selection, etc.
There are different ways to use Backup Enforcer:

• Flexible mode, enabling users to choose some of their own options.
• Silent mode, where everything is centrally configured and all actions take place invisibly in the background.

Do not hesitate to contact us to get a free trial version.

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.

Software Asset Management helps you cut costs and gain productivity

HOMMES & PROCESS can help you analyze and rationalize your software assets. At HOMMES & PROCESS, we have been certified by Microsoft for license delivery for small and medium businesses as well as for large organizations. We are pleased to announce that we have recently attained the Software Asset Management Competency.

Is it really worth maintaining a software asset management program within your organization?

There are multiple ways to buy hardware and software in an organization: OEM licenses (Original Equipment Manufacturer, when licenses are bought pre-installed with the computers), through FPP (full packaged product) and through volume licensing programs. The various purchasing channels can make it complicated to maintain a proper inventory. Different versions of the same software, for instance Office Word, can lead to compatibility problems and prevent people from efficiently working on a single document.

Initiating and maintaining a software asset management program can help organizations:

• Optimize software purchasing  and cut  costs
• Gain productivity by standardizing usages throughout the organization
• Secure software usage compliance

At HOMMES & PROCESS, we include the SAM (Software Asset Management) competency as part of our overall solutions to help our customers be more agile. Question about SAM? Do not hesitate to contact us to learn more.

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.