Novell Groupwise conflict with Microsoft Outlook email client

Our law firm uses Novell Groupwise for calendaring and email client. We also have a Cisco Systems VPN (version 4.6 for Windows and WinNT clients) and use Remote Desktop Connection for remote access to terminals within the office. The remote access capability requires certain VPN and Remote Desktop Connection to be installed on the remote user’s computer (usually a laptop.) This software causes a conflict with Microsoft Outlook on the remote user’s computer (or vice versa0, resulting in much remote use frustration and irritation.

Is there a recommended solution to overcome this conflict so that the Outlook email client can reside on the remote computers and still allow it to be used for remote access to an office terminal?