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Disabling a User after Intruder Lockout
Here's another tip from Aaron Burgemeister - this one helps you prevent a locked-out intruder from trying passwords against another system with synchronized passwords.
Submitted by: aburgemeister on Wed. 02.15.2006
Filed Under:
Identity & Security Management Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Security
Product: eDirectory
Solving Lotus Notes "Corruption" Problems
Do read errors from the Lotus Notes Driver indicate database corruption? Often the answer is no, as Novell's Perry Nuffer demonstrates ...
Submitted by: pnuffer on Wed. 02.15.2006
Filed Under:
Identity & Security Management Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Troubleshooting
Product: Identity Manager
SURVEY: Status, Statistics, Suggestions, and Solicitations
Scott Morris reveals the current numbers of the "Request a Linux App" survey, found on Novell's Cool Solutions site.
Submitted by: coolguys on Wed. 02.15.2006
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions
Topic: Linux, Workgroup
Product: Linux
Running an App Object as Secure or Unsecure System User on Windows XP
Rich Stevenson explains how to get around the common workaround of using UNC pathing instead of a mapped drive, when trying to run app objects on Windows XP. Updated with reader suggestions.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.10.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Windows XP
Product: ZENworks
Helping ZENworks Differentiate between Windows XP and XP Tablet
Jeremy Mlazovsky explains his nifty script that lets you deploy apps specifically to Windows XP or XP Tablet Edition.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.10.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Windows XP
Product: ZENworks
While we're waiting, what can we use now?
It may take a while to convince vendors to port their applications to Linux. In the meantime, Scott Morris asks what possibilities exist now for the top requested applications.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.03.2006
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions
Topic: Linux, Workgroup
Product: Linux
Pushing out a WMF Workaround
Mike Wolf explains how he distributed a workaround painlessly and quickly.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.03.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Distribution
Product: ZENworks
Controlling the Installation of ActiveX Components
Dario Di Bella shares a nifty trick for letting your users download ActiveX components from the websites you trust.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 02.03.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Policies, Rights
Product: ZENworks
ZENworks Imaging using a USB Pen Drive
In 2004 Jamie Glendinning shared a terrific method of using a USB Pen Drive to do ZENworks Imaging. We love pen drives anyway, but this took their usefulness to the next level. Freshly updated with adjustments to avoid being prompted to "Insert Floppy Disk..."
Submitted by: kipple on Fri. 02.03.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: USB Drive
Product: Identity-Driven Computing, ZENworks
Update on Linux Application Request Survey
Scott Morris reveals and discusses the newest data and results from Novell's Linux Application Request Survey.
Submitted by: coolguys on Thu. 02.02.2006
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions
Topic: Identity & Security Management, Linux, Secure Access, Secure Identity, Workgroup
Product: Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Getting Started with Password Policies
Interested in getting started with Password Policies? Novell's Aaron Burgemeister shares the why's and how-to's of getting a Password Policy up and running, using iManager.
Submitted by: aburgemeister on Wed. 02.01.2006
Filed Under:
Identity & Security Management Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Administration, Workgroup
Product: eDirectory, NetWare, Open Enterprise Server
Avoiding 404 Errors in GroupWise / OES Web Access
Here's a tip on avoiding 404 errors in GroupWise Web Access, courtesy of Matt Midson.
Submitted by: midsonm on Tue. 01.31.2006
Filed Under:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Configuration, Workgroup
Product: GroupWise, Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
How to effectively use "Software Inventory Configuration" to manage Software Inventory using ZENworks 7
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.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 01.27.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Inventory
Product: ZENworks
Using RCConsole as a replacement for Wviewnt
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.
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 01.27.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Remote Control
Product: ZENworks
Lotus Notes Troubleshooting
If you've ever received the "Vector must contain objects all of the same class" error from your Lotus Notes driver, you'll find relief with this solution from Novell's Perry Nuffer.
Submitted by: pnuffer on Thu. 01.19.2006
Filed Under:
Identity & Security Management Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Troubleshooting
Product: Identity Manager
Workaround for problem with ZENworks for Desktops 6.5 Application Reporting
David Krotil shares a great solution for the Reporting Failure error he would experience when trying to use the NAL Database for application reporting.
Submitted by: coolguys on Thu. 01.19.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Reporting
Product: ZENworks
Hiding Drives in Windows XP Group Policy
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.
Submitted by: coolguys on Thu. 01.19.2006
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: Windows XP
Product: Identity-Driven Computing, ZENworks
Need an App to run on Linux? Request it here!
If you have critical applications that you MUST be able to use on Linux, please take a minute to let us know what they are, and we'll see what we can do to nudge the folks who create them. Together, your voices will count for more than they would separately. This survey is closed
Submitted by: coolguys on Fri. 01.13.2006
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions
Topic: Identity & Security Management, Linux, Secure Identity, Workgroup
Product: eDirectory, GroupWise, Linux, Open Enterprise Server, Small Business Suite, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux 10.0, SUSE Linux Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Openexchange Server
TBX.NLM
Geoffrey Carman shares what he has learned about the new TBX.NLM that replaces TOOLBOX.NLM.
Submitted by: geoffc on Thu. 01.12.2006
Filed Under:
Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions
Topic: NetWare, NLM (Network Load Module)
Product: NetWare, Open Enterprise Server
Automating Hard Drive Defrag and Check Disk on Multiple PCs
Darrell Eddy shares his nifty method of automating these common chores, and scheduling them to happen regularly on associated PCs.
Submitted by: DarrellEddy on Thu. 01.12.2006
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions





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