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Announcing general availability of Novell Teaming 2.1. You can now download, upgrade and roll out the very latest version of Novell Teaming. Since Teaming 2.0 released last July, the engineering team has put together an exciting update to this piece of our collaboration portfolio.

The engineering team worked closely with several beta sites over six authorized beta releases to make sure that quality, functionality and performance metrics were all considered and achieved. I join with all of our BETA sites, internal IT department, engineers and quality control team in announcing that Teaming 2.1 is READY for your production deployments.

The product and a 60-day eval license are available on:

http://download.novell.com

Select "Teaming + Conferencing" as the product and select "Search." You'll see the "Teaming 2.1 60 Day Evaluation" download.

As with any rapid release development cycle, the feature set and scope is tightly controlled in order to maintain reliability and quality. Tracy Smith, the Novell Teaming Product Manager and Kevin Crutchfield, the Teaming Engineering Manager have done an excellent job in planning, designing, implementing, deploying and shipping a practical, yet innovative set of new features, usability and functionality.

Novell Teaming 2.1 has been deployed internally since December. Dean Ricker, from our IT team has been very helpful in making sure that updates were applied as soon as Thayne and our QA team gave it the thumbs up!.

We are finding new applications for this product everyday! Our marketing team has been using Teaming 2.1 to plan BrainShare. The development project managers rely on Teaming to communicate core team notes, product requirement documents, product schedules and to share information across geographies and organizational boundaries. Novell has over 267 GB of data in our corporate Teaming implementation with over 2000 users last month. We also have over 160,000 entries with about 10,000 new entries last month.

Our BETA customers come from many different segments of the market. Education, government, retail and several partners. Many of them have already put Teaming 2.1 into production.

Novell Teaming is a workflow-enabled team collaboration software. Teaming offers a variety of functionality, including secure robust team workspaces, advanced workflows, social tools and multiple, customizable information types that allow companies to more effectively manage and find their information assets. Out-of-the-box Teaming includes support for file sharing (hundreds of formats supported), versioning, secure search, wikis, blogs, discussion forums, team calendars, tasks, milestones, photo albums and surveys. Also available out of the box is the ability to completely customize the information types to the unique needs of an organization.

How customers use Teaming varies greatly but the top uses can be summarized into 4 areas:

1. Knowledge Repository
2. Document Management
3. Project Collaboration
4. Process Automation

For Users

1. New Mobile UI: Access teaming conveniently through your web-enabled phone.
2. Graphical Landing Page Editor: Creating a powerful and user-friendly landing page has become even easier.
3. Teaming Feeds: Provides you with a constantly updating view of what is happening in your Teaming system
4. Calendar and Tasks: Differentiating between which calendar events or tasks belong to you has become much more simple.
5. Undelete and Purge: Quickly purge or recover deleted information with your dynamic trash bin.

For Administrators and Partners

1. Workspace Import and Export: Easily move workspaces and information between Teaming systems.
2. User Data Quota: Limit the amount of file storage assigned to each user.
3. Extension Administration: For those who are extending the capabilities of Teaming.

Check out this blog for details on the features

In addition, we have a new Teaming partner, SEP, that will announce a new online back up solution and its availability early next week. Watch for that announcement and you can find more about SEP from their web site at http://sepusa.com and for Europe http://www.sep.de.

The announcement can be found here: http://sepusa.com/en/node/1207

Thanks,

Dean

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It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.