This issue of GroupWise Advisor focuses on security, mobility, total cost of ownership, and helping you take advantage of GroupWise 6.5.

Challenges you face

Spam is a growing challenge that eats up valuable bandwidth, storage space, and other network resources. In 2003, the cost of spam to U.S. corporations will exceed $10 billion, estimates Ferris Research.

Among its new features, GroupWise 6.5 includes increased spam-fighting capabilities. You can add blacklists, and GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) will check incoming message sources against those lists. Users can also use junk lists, block lists, and trust lists to manage their incoming e-mail. Contributing Editor Frank Gioffre's article on page 18 in this issue gives you a tour of the hottest new features of GroupWise 6.5. And Charles Nguyen-Huu's article on page 36, leads you to the anti-spam solution that's right for you.

Another important issue for corporations, also addressed by GroupWise 6.5, is mobile access. The number of mobile workers in the U.S. will rise by 12.7 million between 2001 and 2006, from 92 million to 105 million, according to IDC. In other words, within three years, about two-thirds (66 percent) of U.S. employees will require some sort of regular mobile access to corporate data. GroupWise users want to have access to their e-mail, calendars, and task lists from any location at any time.

GroupWise 6.5 offers better integration with mobile devices. Christina Dowling's article on page 42 takes you through eight steps to help you plan a GroupWise mobile solution. Contributing Editor

Eric Raff's article on page 31 shows you how to set up GroupWise so users can get access to their mailboxes from anywhere.

Minimizing TCO is a priority. Technical Editor Tay Kratzer shows you how to increase productivity and make your network and server usage more efficient in his article on page 12.

What's to come

Upcoming issues will discuss GroupWise security, using other Novell products with GroupWise, and tips and techniques for making GroupWise administration easier.

The goal of GroupWise Advisor magazine is to provide you with a guide to GroupWise technology. We want to make administration easier by giving you the nitty-gritty to help you do your job well.

To do this, we need you to keep us updated on the challenges you encou-nter implementing GroupWise, and your advice for dealing with those challenges. Send us your questions, tips, and comments. Let us know if you're working on an interesting project that has given you insight you'd like to share with other GroupWise professionals. Write to us at GroupWise@Advisor.com.

If we print your tips in the Advisor Tips column, we'll send you that issue and a t-shirt that says, "I tipped GroupWise Advisor Magazine."

Expand your knowledge

Another terrific way to improve your knowledge of GroupWise is to attend the second annual GroupWise Advisor Summit, the only all-GroupWise technical conference. Join your colleagues June 9-11, 2003 in Las Vegas. Nothing is a substitute for a live education. You can ask questions and have them answered on the spot by experts, learn tips and tricks from your fellow administrators, meet key GroupWise people from Novell, discover innovative GroupWise tools, and tap the energy of the GroupWise community.

Session topics include managing e-mail, improving performance, archiving, extending GroupWise to mobile devices, handling errors, customizing, securing GroupWise against spam and viruses, upgrading, troubleshooting, monitoring, working with eDirectory, using WebAccess, and fighting Microsoft Exchange. Get the details at http://AdvisorEvents.com/GroupWiseSummit.

Your constant companion

At GroupWise Advisor Summit and in GroupWise Advisor Magazine, you'll discover GroupWise "Sequoia," the next version, which will improve on instant messaging, strengthen spam and virus controls, and enhance mobile and Web services capabilities.

GroupWise is keeping up with the high-speed rate of technological change. And we're here to help you keep up.