Removing Groove Indentities from a workstation

I've been learning a lot about the Groove software over the last couple of weeks and one of things I've learned is that Microsoft's documentation is HORRIBLE.

I know, that's not very surprising but this has been worse that usual. Even the client-side help documentation is bad and Microsoft does a better job than most at client-facing documenation. From an end-user prespective there is acouple of important items to note

Groove Identities

Groove ties very hard to be network OS neutral so it uses special terminology for itself. Instead of a Groove user account, the logon process is through a Groove identity. These identities are very tightly bound to the management server and have a fairly paranoid built-in security system. Each identity is tightly bound to a workstation and you allow or deny privledges based on that identity. The logon process is sepereate from any other logon process and the username and password are unique.

Because of this tight binding, you have to remove the identity from the local workstation. You have to options:

If I can still login to this identity:

• Logon to the Groove client software.
• From the toolbar, select Tool >> Preferences
• Select the Identity tab
• Select Delete

There will be a couple of prompts to warn you that you can't undo this action and that all data will be deleted.

If you can no longer logon to an identity

If you can't logon to this identity, you will get annoying pop ups about how it can't logon and will will always see the user name in the list. There is no real way to delete the identity from inside the Groove software. The only way to do it is to purge all the identities from your computer.

• Backup, archive, or export any existing workspaces that you want to keep. Remember, this process will delete all Groove data from the local workstation so you have to backup anything you want to keep.
• Close out of all Groove software (including the system tray icon)
• Run the following command: %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveClean.exe -all. This will delete all of the cached data.
• Go to the current user's profile at %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Groove\User and delete all files and all sub-folders
• Restart Groove. You should be presented with the first time user wizard.
• Configure the user account and import the workspaces that you archived.