Getting started

So you’ve installed Group-Office or signed up for a the cloud service. That’s great! But what now? These steps should help you get started:

  1. Switch: Are you coming from another system like Microsoft Office 365 or Google Workspace? Then check out our migration guides for switching.

  2. E-mail server: Do you want to setup e-mail? Then you need an IMAP service. If you don’t have one yet you can host your own or get it from our Group-Office hosting service. If you signed up for that you will get instructions to setup the DNS. When using the Group-Office mailserver, also setup the Serverclient module so you will auto create mailboxes for each Group-Office user.

  3. Modules: Install the modules you need at System Settings -> Modules. Remove the once you don’t need to make the menu clean.

  4. User groups: Setup user groups. User groups make it easy for setting up users later. Not everybody needs access to the finance module for example. Make a “Finance” group to administrate that easily.

  5. Users: Add or import users. Also consider if you want to use an SSO solution with OpenID connect, IMAP authentication or LDAP authentication.

  6. E-mail accounts: If e-mail accounts are not created automatically, then you can create IMAP accounts for the users.

  7. Contacts: Learn how to create a shared address book.

  8. Files: Learn how to create a shared folder or drive.

  9. Mobile Sync: Learn about how to connect your mobile phone or desktop apps

By taking these steps you’ve learned a lot about the system. There’s a lot more on this site to explore. And if you need any help then don’t hesitate to contact Intermesh or ask on Github Discussions.