Welcome to the Cool Solutions Community

We are excited about the new release of Novell Vibe 3.3 and wanted to share a few tutorial videos about some new and improved functionality with Landing Pages, Workflow Transitions, Document Management, Folder Management, Calendar Events, and Tasks. Please click on the video links to find ways to better use Novell Vibe. We hope these videos are useful.

Got Macs? Novell has a great soluton for you! Kanaka 2.7 is now available.

I had the opportunity to have an interview with Susan Salgy, of the Cool Solutions website, the heart of the Novell community riviera ... the centre of the Novell support universe ... the ultimate place to publish yourself, your ideas, and where to discuss with others, blog, tools, articles, tech tips, you'll find at the Cool Solutions website.

We needed to get users to log calls via emails to our KACE K1000 Appliance. The KACE uses its own internal smtp server and sets its own email address as username@kacename.dnsname. As the appliance is within our LAN and our smtp relay is outside, where we have no control, we could not simply add the kbox domain as a subdomain. And for some reason, even though the appliance name can be resolved by dns, GroupWise would not send email to it. There are plenty of tips on how to make this work on other email servers but none for GroupWise, but after much trial and error we finally got it to work. Hope this helps save someone else some time.

For those IT shops wanting to enjoy the advantages of Novell clustering in their VMware environments, Victor Gehring pulls together information from various sources, along with personal experience, for what is intended be a complete configuration guide for this platform. The article assumes a working knowledge of SLES/OES, SAN's and VMware.

In my last post, Eat or be Eaten - IT Transformation Underway, I discussed the transformation IT as we know it is undergoing. Last week I had the opportunity to listen to my good friend Eveline Oehrlich of Forrester present Reboot Service Management as hosted by ITSM Academy, confirming many of the discussion points from my previous post and had me thinking about my next series of posts.

Collaboration means different things to different people. For managers, it’s about increasing productivity and supporting mobility. For teams, it’s about working together on projects, managing and sharing documents, and retaining knowledge. Novell Vibe™ delivers on both fronts, helping you bring people, projects and processes together in one secure space to enhance productivity—no matter where your teams are or what devices they use.

Reduce the migration costs of your RBAC projects and shorten the integration process of your role model. PowerRole automates the import of existing role models and the scheduled assignments of roles to your employees.

Updated: New in v2.7: Better feedback when handling drivers, new root DSE Viewer, ability to preview the results of a query in Associations Manager, support for anonymous binds, ability to export the eDirectory CA public key, support for ADLDS and Lotus Domino LDAP, ability to specify the base DN.