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This article helps you to understand the effective use of "software Inventory configuration" available in ZENworks 7 Inventory Management component. This in turn, results in a more accurate and manageable software inventory.

If you were accustomed to using Wviewnt.exe to remote-control machines from the command line, but find it doesn't work in newer version of ZENworks, check out this tip from Adam Hobbs.

David Krotil shares a great solution for the Reporting Failure error he would experience when trying to use the NAL Database for application reporting.

Wondering how to add options in XP to hide specific drives? Check out these great suggestions, and feel free to add some of your own.

If you want to use the PC's Asset Tag or Serial Number in the PC name using ZENworks Imaging, this one's for you.

Ever want to bypass the Preboot menu with ZDM 7 on Linux or ZENworks Linux Management 7? Here's how you do it.

Freshly Updated: Martin Irwin shows you the ready-made Compiled Packages (CPKs) Novell provides now for ZENworks Desktop Management 6.5. He discusses the patching methodologies of patching Backend and Middle Tier services for both the Windows and NetWare Operating systems. Dive right into the design of each CPK and recommended Best Practice for using each one in this outstanding white paper.

Typically, when administrators want to install ZENworks Desktop Management 7 to a given Server, they need to launch the ZDM7 Installer, select the server, and select the component they wish to install. The time involved can be anywhere between half an hour and two hours -- and sometimes even more. Multiply that by hundreds of servers and many patches, and the costs to your business can skyrocket. This white paper addresses all of these concerns by showing how a pre-built ZENworks Server Management Complied Package (CPK) can be used to deploy ZENworks Desktop Management 7 software.

Provides an internet protocol handler (prnt:) to install printers on Windows 2000/XP clients via an HTML page similar to Novell's iPrint maps.

Identify what services may have been added, or services that have changed from their normal status on your Windows machine.