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Do you have Macintosh users authenticating to their OS X workstations through eDirectory? Use this loginHook script to grant them access to the local machine by group and to populate GroupWise with their PO login settings.

Check out this great story from SC Magazine. See why Will Schneider chose Novell Identity Manager to provision students, faculty and staff at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center.

Alvarado Independent School District leveraged Novell® solutions to make the most of a limited IT budget by automating manual processes. The district uses Novell Identity Manager to automate user provisioning, and implemented Novell ZENworks® to reduce administration time by 45 percent.

We have a lot of student computers running Windows XP (managed by ZfD 7). When the students have finished using the computers they tend to just log off leaving the computers running on full power (often over nights or weekends) instead of shutting them down. But with a little tweaking it is possible to shut down the computer if no user has been logged on for 10 minutes. We also do weekly automated ZEN imaging and the tweak is also a great way to close the computers after the imaging schedule.

Need to keep students from saving games to the C: drives of school PCs? Check out this tip from James Rudd.

Garrett Pichler explains how he uses ZENworks to edit the Windows host file and keep students from accessing restricted websites from the student workstations.