ZENworks for Desktops 4 Upgrade Guide

This guide includes information for upgrading the ZENworks Starter Pack, ZENworks 2, and ZENworks for Desktops 3.x to work in a ZfD 4 environment. It also contains information about upgrading ZfD 4 to ZfD 4 SP1/4.0.1

The following sections are included:

A table comparing the features of the various ZfD releases is included in an appendix:

Changes to the content of this guide are included in the following appendix:


Additional Documentation

For information about the installing, planning, setting up, and testing processes that Novell® ZENworks® for Desktops (ZfD) 4, ZfD 4 Support Pack 1 (SP1) and ZfD 4.0.1 customers will typically encounter while implementing this product, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Installation Guide.

For comprehensive, conceptual information that you can use as you configure and use ZfD 4/SP1/4.0.1 components in your production environment, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Administration Guide.

For information about administering ZfD DeFrameTM to provide directory-enabled management and delivery of thin-client applications through Novell Application LauncherTM, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4.0.1 DeFrame Installation and Administration Guide.

For information about installing, deploying and administering ZfD Preboot Services, a component that finds imaging work specified for a workstation and provides the workstation with the files necessary to boot to the ZfD imaging environment, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Preboot Services Guide.

For information about administering ZfD Personality Migration, a component that migrates a users' system and application settings, preferences, and data files from one workstation to another, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Personality Migration Guide.

For information about installing, configuring and testing ZfD 4.0.1 (this version only) in a Novell Cluster Services environment, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4.0.1 Clustering Guide.

For troubleshooting strategies that you can use and error messages that might be displayed for problems that could occur as you use ZfD 4/SP1/4.0.1 in your production environment, see the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Troubleshooting Guide.


Documentation Updates

Check the ZENworks for Desktops 4 Documentation Web site for updates that might not be included on the documentation shipped on the ZENworks for Desktops Program CD or the ZENworks 6 Desktop Management Program CD.


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