Chapter 4. Understanding the GroupWise Information Store

The GroupWise information store consists of messages in post offices and documents in libraries. The GroupWise information store follows a distributed or partitioned model, in which different store files contain different portions of the entire store.

This chapter looks at these store files individually. It also details their relationships and considers the information store as a whole, spanning multiple post offices. The objective of this chapter is to help you understand GroupWise architecture well enough to troubleshoot your system effectively. The concepts discussed in this chapter will be applied in Part IV, "Practical Administration," and Part V, "Applied Architecture," and especially in Chapter 17, "Maintaining the GroupWise System."