Groove 2007 Unable to Contact Provisioning Server

Hello,

Has anyone come across this problem with Groove 2007? We have found other
commentary on the web about this, but they go short of providing the actual
solution.

We are running Windows XP with Groove 2007 that was just installed today.

It seems as if Groove 2007 is getting installed without a provisioning
server being specified. We want to use the Microsoft public server, which I
understand should be http://blugro1gms.groove.microsoft.com/gms.dll.

Interestingly, the Relay Server in my system is specified as
grooveDNS://backwardscompatibility.groove.net

when the research indicates it should be:€
grooveDNS://blugro1relay.groove.microsoft.com

I have no idea where the "backwardscompatibility" is coming from on my
system.

When we go to:
Options->Communications Manager->Network Settings

The spot that this should be entered is grayed out. Either we are missing
where this should be corrected or we have an entirely different problem with
the communications. We have turned off all Firewalls.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi Melih,

You may want to use the link below to also post this in the MS Office Groove discussion group.

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<<"Melih" <Melih@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:977009FA-544A-44F3-BDED-F470F722E8C7@microsoft.com...
Hello,

Has anyone come across this problem with Groove 2007? We have found other
commentary on the web about this, but they go short of providing the actual
solution.

We are running Windows XP with Groove 2007 that was just installed today.

It seems as if Groove 2007 is getting installed without a provisioning
server being specified. We want to use the Microsoft public server, which I
understand should be http://blugro1gms.groove.microsoft.com/gms.dll.

Interestingly, the Relay Server in my system is specified as
grooveDNS://backwardscompatibility.groove.net

when the research indicates it should be:?
grooveDNS://blugro1relay.groove.microsoft.com

I have no idea where the "backwardscompatibility" is coming from on my
system.

When we go to:
Options->Communications Manager->Network Settings

The spot that this should be entered is grayed out. Either we are missing
where this should be corrected or we have an entirely different problem with
the communications. We have turned off all Firewalls.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.<<
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