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Welcome to the ZENworks Community Builds website! The object of this program is to provide pre-release/beta ZENworks builds during the product development cycle.

ZENworks 11 SP2 RC1

ZENworks 11 SP2 RC1 is now available here. Check out the new features and start testing today! Make sure to tell us what you think in the ZENworks Community Builds forums, or enter defects in the bugzilla system.

ZENworks 11 SP2 Open Beta is now available!

ZENworks 11 SP2 is the next release of the ZENworks 11 product family. It includes the new ZENworks Full Disk Encryption product which provides the following capabilities:

  • Centralized, integrated management of Full Disk Encryption for Seagate and ZENworks FDE software encrypted drives
  • Centralized key management and recovery
  • Ability to authenticate via either Username / Password or Smartcard at preboot time
  • Ability to suppress preboot authentication

Additionally ZENworks 11 SP2 also provides the following enhancements to existing products:

  • Support for Macintosh OS-X 10.5 and higher on Intel hardware platforms. This includes remote management, inventory, bundle management and patch management.
  • Improved Windows 7 imaging performance with Linux based imaging solution
  • Import/Export content when importing or exporting bundles
  • Registry action export to .reg file
  • Much more

Download the beta now from here. Note: If you are experiencing problems with this link, please check back soon as we're currently working to resolve the issue. Check out the New features documentation and start testing today! Make sure to tell us what you think in the ZENworks Community Builds forums, or enter defects in the bugzilla system.

ZENworks 11 SP1!

ZENworks 11 SP1was released on 8/8/2011 and it is available for customers at http://download.novell.com/index.jsp. The already powerful ZENworks 11 is enhanced to handle modern databases in addition to:

  • Nested group support
  • Service desk APIs
  • System Update for Sybase and Oracle based installations
  • Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 SP1 support
  • Java 6 support
  • Sybase->SQL migration
  • Firefox 4 support
  • ZESM Security Scripting policies
  • Install Directory performance changes
  • Agent caching performance enhancements
  • Device login status messages
  • Bundle blocking
  • 64-bit group policy management
  • Outlook 2007 support for personality migration
  • DC Power Management settings policies
  • Package Platform Associations for Linux
  • SSL Trust Manager for Linux subscriptions

This release is now available.

Follow the links below in the Available Builds section of this page to download your copy today. Also, be sure to check out the New Feature Previews for ZENworks 11 SP1! The final release of ZENworks SP1 is now available.

Available Builds

Note: By downloading these builds, you agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions of this program.

ZENworks 11 SP2 RC1
Includes Configuration, Asset, Patch, Linux, and Endpoint Security Management
Release date: 14 February 2012
Release Notes | Download

ZENworks 11 SP1 RC1
Includes Configuration, Asset, Patch, Linux, and Endpoint Security Management
Release date: 23 June 2011
Release Notes | Download

Documentation

The documentation for ZENworks 11 SP1 can be found here.

ZENworks Community Builds

We want to involve our customers and partners as much as possible during the development process. We welcome your feedback on bugs, usability, process, or enhancement requests.

Remember that these builds are completely unsupported and are for testing purposes only. Do not use these builds in a production environment. Please also note that upgrading from a beta version to a released production version is NOT supported.

Found a bug?
Please log it against the ZENworks Community Builds product in Novell's Bugzilla. (Note: This is only to be used for ZENworks products currently in beta testing.)

Enhancement Requests
Requests for enhancements to our products should be logged against the ZENworks Configuration Management product line in the Novell Requirements Portal.

Community

Collaborate with other ZENworks Community Builds members in our online forum.


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