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The Cool Bloggers are select Novell technologists who blog about the products they know and love. Check out what they're buzzing about today.
GroupWise: Windermere Authorized BETA Underway!
This last week, the authorized beta for Windermere was officially started. Code was sent to all authorized beta sites and the first conference call is scheduled for Thursday June 20th.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 06.19.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: Data Synchronizer, GroupWise
Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 Released
Released today, Novell Storage Manager 3.1.1 includes a number of new management capabilities and bug fixes that Storage Manager customers will want to leverage right away.
Submitted by: buckgashler on Wed. 06.12.2013
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Supported
Product: Storage Manager
GroupWise: Misc Information
A couple of things that looked interesting to communicate and share with the GroupWise community and things that you might have missed even though they have been available and published for a while.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 05.29.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: File Management, File Transfer, Supported
Product: Filr, GroupWise
GroupWise: Windermere Administration
One of the cornerstone features to GroupWise in the upcoming release of Windermere is a completely new Administration Console. I thought I would share a few details and screen shots of how this experience is going to change.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 05.22.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Administration, Collaboration, Supported
Product: GroupWise
Important information for the April update for OES
The April schedule maintenance update for OES2 SP3 and OES11 brings a significant update to eDirectory. Prior to this update eDirectory on these platforms was at various patch levels of 8.8 SP6. The current update makes eDirectory 8.8 SP7 Patch 3 available to these platforms in addition to OES11 SP1.
Submitted by: trsmith on Thu. 05.16.2013
Filed Under:
Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Open Enterprise Server Cool Solutions
Topic: Maintenance, Patches, Supported
Product: Open Enterprise Server
What's New in Novell File Reporter 2.0.1
Today we released Novell File Reporter 2.0.1. The version number makes this look like a minor release, but there are some significant enhancements that will make you want to update your version of the product.
Submitted by: buckgashler on Wed. 05.08.2013
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, File Management Suite
Topic: Supported
Product: File Reporter
GroupWise: Windermere Features Report!
Many of you have been following the five part blog series that has spelled out some of the technical decisions and choices that have been made or considered regarding the next major release of GroupWise. As you all know, the code name for that release is Windermere. It is scheduled to release by the end of the year and authorized beta is expected to expand in June. The product has been in an SDK/API beta since January.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Fri. 05.03.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: Data Synchronizer, GroupWise
GroupWise 2012 SP2 Releases!
Today, Novell announced the release of GroupWise 2012 SP2. This support pack releases eight months after SP1 and contains not only the expected set of fixes, new platform support, and increased reliability, but also contains some significant new functionality. GroupWise 2012 SP2 also includes technology called GroupWise Coexistence Solution for Exchange.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Tue. 04.16.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: Data Synchronizer, GroupWise
GroupWise Windermere - We listened!
As the blog has solicited input regarding decisions that will impact Windermere, there was a need to communicate back to this audience and update each blog affected. Here are a list of decisions that because of your input and feedback, we have adjusted our solution.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Tue. 03.26.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: GroupWise
GroupWise: Windermere Changes – Part 5
This is Part 5. Engineering will very quickly be winding down the changes and new development that will be in the Windermere release. Engineering continues to find things they want to share and socialize with the GroupWise Community.
This series of Windermere technical updates have served to educate not only GroupWise Administrators, but also Technical Services, Consulting and Dedicated/Premium support personnel. In addition, the discussions have allowed engineering to publicly weigh assumptions and decisions. Thank you for continuing to read along, comment, and participate in these important topics.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Tue. 03.19.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: GroupWise
GroupWise: Updates on Mobility, BlackBerry and GroupWise 2012 SP2
While BrainShare has been a personal distraction for a few weeks and the GroupWise blog has suffered, the engineering team has steadily made progress in a variety of areas. Here is an update!
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Mon. 02.25.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, GroupWise Mobile Server (GMS), Supported
Product: Data Synchronizer, GroupWise
GroupWise: Windermere Changes – Part 4
This is part 4. As plans, decisions and schedules are finalized regarding Windermere – there are several things to share and socialize in order to help you and your organization move forward with Novell and GroupWise.
I thought we were done with a three part series, but it looks like we have a few more points to discuss and share with you. I would like to say this will be the last such blog submission, but I don’t want to be called a liar when we end up doing a part 5. I guess we will just have to see.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Fri. 01.25.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: Data Synchronizer, GroupWise
File Reporter 2.0 and Storage Manager 3.1 Released
Extensive new reporting capabilities in in File Reporter 2.0, including Permissions reports.
New mobile management capabilities in Storage Maanger 3.1
Submitted by: buckgashler on Mon. 01.21.2013
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, File Management Suite
Topic: Active Directory, Announcements, Data migration, eDirectory, File Management, Migration, OES Migration, Reporting
Product: File Management Suite, File Reporter, Storage Manager
Novell Service Desk: APIs and all that
Submitted by: blartfast on Tue. 01.15.2013
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Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Novell Service Desk Cool Solutions
Product: Service Desk
Novell iPrint: The Print Platform for the Future
Novell iPrint is adding many new capabilities to its core offering.
Submitted by: ttronson on Fri. 01.11.2013
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: BrainShare, iPrint, Supported
Product: iPrint
Novell ZENworks Full Disk Encryption: Best Practice - Part Two
In Novell ZENworks Full Disk Encryption: Best Practice part one I looked at what you needed to take into account before deployment. In part two I look at steps you can follow to ensure a successful deployment.
Submitted by: blartfast on Fri. 01.11.2013
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ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Best Practices, Supported
Product: ZENworks Full Disk Encryption
New Beginning
New Year's Resolution: Let us help you to obtain more knowledge and expertise, so you can achieve your IT career goals and have a more successful 2013.
Submitted by: dcoughanour on Tue. 01.08.2013
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Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Supported, Training
Novell ZENworks Full Disk Encryption: Best Practice - Part One
A "Best Practice" is commonly defined as "a technique or methodology that, through experience and research, has proven reliably to lead to a desired result. "Best Practice" is not about "perfection", its about getting the job done.
In the context of the next series of paragraphs, sentences, words and occasional doodle, Best Practice is all about sharing knowledge about lessons learned in deploying Novell ZENworks Full Disc Encryption (ZFDE) to ensure the highest degree of success.
Submitted by: blartfast on Tue. 01.08.2013
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Best Practices, Supported
Product: ZENworks Full Disk Encryption
GroupWise: GroupWise/Exchange Coexistence
Novell will release a new capability and replacement technology that facilitates GroupWise and Exchange coexisting in the same organization. This capability will be part of GroupWise 2012 SP2, which is currently undergoing Lighthouse deployments and scheduled to ship in early 2013.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 01.02.2013
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: GroupWise
GroupWise: Windermere Changes – Part 3
This is part 3: As plans, decisions and schedules are finalized regarding Windermere – there are several things to share and socialize in order to help you and your organization move forward with Novell and GroupWise.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Fri. 12.07.2012
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Technology Partners, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration, Supported
Product: GroupWise








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