Upgrade to Open Enterprise Server

Sakila Ravi explains how to use the new Create EVMS Based Proposal option in OES 2 SP2.

Sakila Ravi explains several different methods for upgrading OES 2 SP1 to OES 2 SP2.

Here's part 2 of Kevin Hurni's series on OES2 SP1 Install and Migration. In this article, Kevin shows you how to use the Migration Utility.

Updated: If you want your XP/2000 workstations to use the same driver for a printer, then iPrintUp is the solution. iPrintUp will update the existing drivers on a workstation, if a new driver is available and the right information is set in eDirectory.

Kevin Hurni shares a step-by-step guide on how to install OES2 SP1.

Top Technical Information Documents for OES Upgrade and Migration.

One of the nice things about OES2 SP1 Linux is the fact that it runs quite nicely as a para-virtualized VM in XEN. However, one thing we noticed after migrating an NSS volume from NetWare to the OES2 XEN VM was that disk performance was terrible. Here's a solution.

After upgrading to OES Linux from NetWare, Mike Brady found one of the many advantages of running the OES stack on Linux. They now host a private intranet for employees, relieving Mike of a lot of work. Come find out how he did it.

We're happy to announce our new book, The Caledonia Guide to Moving GroupWise. This book has been designed to walk the administrator step-by-step through all manner of GroupWise moves, and is useful for all versions of GroupWise. Find out more...

Updated: Collects important system information for troubleshooting.

SLES 11 XEN optimization of virtual network bridges of SLES 10 SP2 Virtual Servers running OES2.

From now until October 31st, 2009, the first 25 articles or tools submitted to Cool Solutions related to Upgrading or Migrating to OES Linux will receive an extra $50 Amazon.com Gift Card and a chance to win an iPod Touch. This is in addition to the regular points received through Cool Solutions.

Recently I had the opportunity to do a migration from NetWare 6.0 SP5 to OES2 SP1 (x64). The only thing that stood out was the OSX clients. Thankfully, OES2 SP1 reintroduced AFP...

Tired of looking all over the place for OES upgrade or migration related materials? Novell's new Upgrading to OES community page has just gone live.

After migrating the NSS volume from NetWare to OES2 SP1 Linux, not all your files or directories may appear. Here's a solution.

Is your business using Twitter? Novell recently added an OES specific Twitter account at http://twitter.com/novelloes.

Over the past couple of months, I have been involved with migrating remote NetWare servers to Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2) Linux. During this time, there are some lessons that have been learned that hopefully this article will be able to help you, the reader, perform your own migrations more smoothly and avoid some of the pitfalls we encountered.

Have you ever needed to move data between OES Servers or NetWare to OES2? Especially when the source is on a traditional volume? Well, here's the scoop...

So you have a bunch of OES2 SP1 Linux nodes running in a cluster. You have followed the documentation in the NetStorage for Linux Administration Guide to setup, install and configure NetStorage to run in your cluster. All is working well, except your users get that nasty warning in their browser, every time they connect, because your NetStorage is using the default untrusted self-signed server certificates.

Wouldn't life be just great if we could get NetStorage to use a third-party minted one from a reputable trusted Certificate Authority.

Well, you can, here's how.

If you get the error message: "No Subnet Declaration for eth1" when loading DHCPD on OES2 Linux, here is a tip from Norm O'Neal on how to fix it.

A few weeks ago Novell launched a guide on Upgrading from NetWare to OES2SP1 Linux. This guide contains information on using Migration tools, doing rolling cluster upgrades, OES Linux 3rd party services, and much more.

Have you ever implemented a new Universal Password Policy and needed to change everyone from the old policy to the new one, but you've associated the policy individually rather than by OU? Then this tool may be for you.

Want to make sure you have a full copy of all volume trustee and IRF's on a per volume basis before beginning your migration to OES2 SLES? I did and this is what I came up with....

This article provides a step-by-step approach to configure a NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) volume over POSIX file systems.

Get an introduction into the newest way to save time in your own development and administration of a Novell or even non-Novell environment using Novell Support Advisor.

NetWare isn't dead, it's moving to Linux! It's called Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 and runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

This AppNote provides a step-by-step approach to configure a shadow volume in a Novell Cluster environment, especially when the primary and secondary volumes are originally from different cluster pools or resources.

Now is the time to Move IT and upgrade customers to Open Enterprise Server 2 and they want to be sure it will be a success! Do you know how to help them make that happen?

Best practice way for migrating DNS from NetWare (or OES) to OES Linux in same Tree.

Tips & tricks for using the Novell migration tools and problems you may encounter when migrating from NetWare to OES2 SP1.

With brand new upgrade promotions for Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell GroupWise and the Novell Open Workgroup Suite, there's no reason to deny your organization the latest and greatest solutions for workforce productivity...

Migrating from Windows to OES 2 SP1 does not provide a simple, straightforward GUI to migrate all the services. File Share migration uses a nice GUI utility, everything is manual and command line based. Not overly difficult, really. There are a few things to that need to be considered before you can start. There are specifics, but here's what I used and suggest to make sure that you don't hit any road blocks.

Even though the majority of Novell users are concerned with migrating NetWare to Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux, there are those users who migrated their NetWare servers to OES 1 Linux. This guide from Mike Faris was written to help those with OES 1 Linux migrate their servers to OES 2 SP1 Linux.

March 6, 2009 - 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern
Sessions:

• "Email Archiving - Reduce the size and cost of your email archiving" GWAVA Retain, Taylor Cochrane, GWAVA
• "Whats NEW in GroupWise 8" Derek Adams, BrainStorm
• "Migrating from Netware to OES2" Mike Faris, Aviall Service, Inc
• "Asset Management with ZENworks 10" Dave Carter

Ivan Vari shares an excellent document focusing on a design where XEN virtual machines (domU) are centrally managed according to a set policy and highly available. What is written here is the real thing not a demo and has been working in production for over 18 months. They use this technology for hosting many UNIX services including DNS, Web proxy, SMTP, NFS, VPN, CUPS, etc. and traditional NetWare services with OES2.

Frequent-contributor Mike Faris has rewritten one of his most popular articles, so you don't have to know about previous software packages to follow his steps. He has plans to write additional migration articles as well, which you will find here. This is what makes Cool Solutions so cool. Smart people, sharing. Thanks Mike!

Sanjeev Gupta explains how to configure Novell Business Continuity cluster (BCC) and Identity Manager in a multiple eDir tree environment.

This AppNote helps users who are using CIFS protocol on a NetWare 6.5 SP7 server and intend to have the same service and file system access on OES 2 SP1 Linux.

February 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern
Sessions:

• K-12 Novell Technology Success with Frankfort Schools, including; collaboration, security, mobility and service desk
• Migrating from NetWare to OES2 SP2 Linux
• GroupWise Storage Optimization and Compliance
• Up and coming features of Teaming + Conferencing

This AppNote describes how the Identity Manager 3.5.1 driver set and related configuration files on NetWare 6.5 SP7 are migrated to OES 2 SP1 Linux server with the help of the Novell Migration Tool.

Sanjeev Gupta shares a step by step guide on how to install and configure Novell Archive and Version services, and NetStorage on an OES 2 SP1 server.

This article explains how to migrate your iFolder server and data from NetWare 6.5 SP7 to OES2 SP1 Linux.

This AppNote provides a step by step procedure to set up an iFolder server on a NCS cluster. It also describes how to configure NCS using iSCSi, and how to configure an iFolder server on NSS for high availability configuration.

With OES2 SP1, Novell has released an “ID Transfer” feature as part of the OES2 Migration Tools. This new feature allows you to do what the former Migration Wizard did, which is allow a destination server to take the place of your source server. This new tool Transfers your source to an OES2 Linux destination, something the Migration Wizard did not support.

This AppNote will describe how you can add additional patch environments to SMT. An increasing number of companies have their systems divided over a test, acceptance and production environment. Patches and updates should be provided to those environments in turn.

This article describes how to create your own YUM update repository and publishing it to your client machines (SLED, SLES, OES etc.) via Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise.

The iPrint Driver Copy script copies printer drivers from a NetWare Broker (or multiple Brokers) to a Linux Driver Store.

Mike Faris explains how to replace existing server certificates with new certificates that are virtually the same, they just last until the CA itself expires.