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The Cool Bloggers are select Novell technologists who blog about the products they know and love. Check out what they're buzzing about today.
Internal GroupWise 8 Launch has begun!
Cool things happening at the Novell Campus around GroupWise 8!
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Sat. 11.01.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Collaboration
Product: GroupWise
Selling to a Small Business. Identify the need, part 2
In my last post, I wrote about listening to your customer to get an idea of how they feel about technology, as this will provide you with a good starting point in designing a solution. The next part of the conversation you'll need to have is directly related to the technology and the business.
Submitted by: melaniefeeney on Wed. 10.22.2008
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition, Partners
Product: Workgroup
Open Enterprise Server 2 SP1 Public Beta - It's here!
Yes, I've been VERY quiet of late, and you now know why. OES2 SP1 Public Beta is out. SP1 is packed full of goodness and I'll take a few minutes to give you some insights.
Submitted by: jawilliams on Wed. 10.15.2008
Filed Under:
Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center
Product: Open Enterprise Server
GWAVACon Berlin and GroupWise 8 Update!
Heading to Berlin for GWAVACon. Expecting another great crowd with high anticipation for GroupWise 8!
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Tue. 10.14.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Collaboration
Product: GroupWise
ZENworks Configuration Management hotfixes
These set of hotfixes for ZCM 10.1 will be appearing in ZCC system update shortly. However, you can also apply these manually
Submitted by: blartfast on Thu. 10.09.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, Data Center Specialists, End-User Computing
Product: ZENworks Configuration Management
Are you following us on Twitter?
Since a few days, we have started to twitter about small-business related things - announcements, development ideas, training opportunities and more. Point your browser to http://twitter.com/novellnowssbe and have a look.
Submitted by: rlindste on Wed. 10.08.2008
Filed Under:
Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition
Product: Open Workgroup Suite
GroupWise and Nokia Intellisync
Nokia made an announcement regarding the future of it's Intellisync suite of products which affects GroupWise Mobile Server. Read the current Novell response.
Submitted by: aevans on Mon. 09.29.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: GroupWise Mobile Server (GMS)
Product: GroupWise
Power management and ZCM: What are the potential monetary savings?
Following on from this posting on Power Management, several people have asked if I have a illustration for the potential savings that could be made. Rather than directly reply, I thought the wider community might also be interested. If you want to understand how to implement power management in ZCM, then this is coming in my next blog entry.
Submitted by: blartfast on Mon. 09.29.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Marketing GroupWise 8!
I have invited Wendy Steinle, Director of Marketing for Novell's End User Computing solutions and products. - to be a guest on my blog. Wendy shares her insight, plans, strategies and marketing efforts to promote GroupWise and all of Novell Collaboration Solutions.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Thu. 09.25.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Collaboration
Product: GroupWise
GroupWise 8 enters Public BETA
Check out the lively conversation about this article, and join in with your comments.Public beta of Bonsai is here! Also the code name is gone – the next version of GroupWise is officially GroupWise 8! During the final push before final shipment, we will continue to polish and make it shine. Please help us by participating in the public beta and by providing feedback.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Wed. 09.24.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Announcements
Product: GroupWise
ZCM and ZAV
Virtual applications and ZENworks Configuration Management make a winning combination. Read on for suggestions for using the two solutions together.
Submitted by: blartfast on Wed. 09.24.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Integration
Product: ZENworks
Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition + Faronics Deepfreeze
We've got some good news for partners: Faronics Deepfreeze has just been added to the Third Party products install in NOWS SBE.
Submitted by: melaniefeeney on Fri. 09.19.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: 3rd Party Products, Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition
Product: Open Workgroup Suite
Power management and ZENworks Configuration Management
There's an awful lot of interest around power management in IT and I've been researching this subject in order to see how ZENworks could help ( I'm not talking about the datacentre, it's the end user under the spot light ). My research has made me realize that this is not as straightforward a subject as it seems and there is a polarized view on if it's actually worth the trouble.
Submitted by: blartfast on Mon. 09.01.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: ZENworks
Product: ZENworks Configuration Management
Novell Open Workgroup Suite, Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition, and why they are different
Novell Open Workgroup Suite was first released in 2006 with Open Enterprise Server, GroupWise, ZENworks Suite, SLED and OpenOffice to great success. Novell Open Workgroup Suite (NOWS) is a soft bundle, essentially a package of software licenses. NOWS includes OES, ZENworks, GroupWise, OpenOffice, SLED, and now Teaming.
Submitted by: melaniefeeney on Fri. 08.22.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Vibe Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition
Product: Open Workgroup Suite
NOWS SBE: a platform for the partner community
I thought that for the first post from the NOWS SBE product management team I would address what we built for the partner community. When the NOWS SBE product was developed we started by first asking what did the reseller and the end user communities need.
Submitted by: melaniefeeney on Thu. 08.21.2008
Filed Under:
Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition, Partners
Product: Open Workgroup Suite
Selling GroupWise
I have invited Juan Carlos Cerrutti - VP of Sales for the WorkGroup Business Unit - to be a guest on my blog. Juan Carlos shares his thoughts about selling GroupWise, its opportunities, markets and competition.
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Tue. 08.12.2008
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Collaboration
Product: GroupWise
GroupWise Turns 20!
How long have you been with GroupWise?
Submitted by: dlythgoe on Fri. 08.08.2008
Filed Under:
GroupWise Cool Solutions, Collaboration Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Collaboration
Product: GroupWise
Utopia Improves Online Tools
In direct response to your feedback we have just completed a re-vamp of our documentation and download facility.
Submitted by: cneal-novell on Sat. 08.02.2008
Filed Under:
Cool Solutions, Solution Provider, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers
Topic: Utopia
ZCM 10 Service Pack 1 -- PUBLIC beta out now
Try the new features in ZCM SP1
Submitted by: blartfast on Wed. 07.23.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Product: ZENworks
Manage the Lifecycle of Virtual Machines
With virtualization comes new challenges. How do you manage the lifecycle of the virtual machines - from creation to retirement? What if you use more than one hyper-visor or operating system? How will I manage both the physical and virtual environment?
Submitted by: virtualization on Mon. 07.21.2008
Filed Under:
ZENworks Cool Solutions, Cool Solutions, Cool Blogs: Official Novell Bloggers, End-User Computing
Topic: Virtualization
Product: ZENworks, ZENworks Orchestrator









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