If you are concerned about creating change in your corporate directory structure (whether you use eDirectory® or Active Directory), you need to create a dedicated tree in eDirectory that can be used to hold the objects and configure the policies that are managed with Novell® ZENworks®. You use this dedicated “ZENworks tree” to deploy ZENworks Desktop Management without affecting the current tools, identity management processes, or authentication processes you currently have in place with your corporate tree.
After you create the ZENworks tree, you can install the ZENworks Desktop Management Server, the ZENworks Middle Tier Server there, and designate it in the ZENworks Desktop Management Agent installation program so that the ZENworks Desktop Management users and workstations are properly configured and ready to authenticate there.
Because you use the ZENworks tree exclusively for ZENworks, the Workstation objects created by ZENworks Automatic Workstation Import are to be found only in this tree. You create policies, Workstation Image objects, Database objects, and Application objects only in this tree. You can also use Nsure® Identity Manager (shipping with ZENworks 7) to synchronize User objects between your corporate tree and the ZENworks tree, making users available for association with desktop policies and applications, just as the imported workstations are available to be associated with policies and applications.