Category: Novell

Novellcongres.nl 2011

Yesterday was the 10 time that the novellcongres.nl was held in Ede the Netherlands. Although the amount of vistors was less than the years before, it’s was a nice day with a lot of interesting sessions. Especially the keynote session from Dirk Schmidt (Novell VP Sales EMEA) and Richard Lindstedt (PM Neutron) where really interesting. [...]

Thursday June 16th, 2011 in Novell, Vmware | Comments Off

Apache with iPrint won’t start even if CUPS is disabled with VMware Tools

A while ago I wrote a post about that the installation of the VMware tools enable the start of Cups at boot time. The was easy to fix by disabling the start of Cups at boot time with the insserv -r /etc/init.d/cups or chkconfig cups off command. While upgrading a vSphere ESX4.0 to 4.1 site [...]

Tuesday December 28th, 2010 in Novell, Vmware | 3 Comments »

Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack – Update 2

Somenhow I missed this announcement, but as of 1 december Novell released Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack – Update 2. This update has some new features as well as some bug fixes. You can get the update through the Novell Customer Center or Patch Finder. New Authentication Source: You can now choose to use GroupWise [...]

Wednesday December 8th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Export the CA certificate for ZCM

During the installation of ZCM10 you’re asked if you want to use a external CA (Certificate Authority) of a internal CA. If you’re using a internal CA it’s important to backup the CA certificate in case you lose the server who is the CA for your ZCM zone. If you lose your CA all the [...]

Thursday November 25th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Attachmate Acquires Novell

On 22 november 2010 Attachmate annouced the acquire of Novell for 2.2 billion dollars. The planning to split the company in Novell and Suse with there excisting products. What will this mean for us Novell guy’s? Read my previous post about this.

Tuesday November 23rd, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Novell Sale part 2

The New York Post reports that Novell is about to sell itself in two parts. First to a stratetig buyer then in parts to other companies who are unknown. So what does this mean for us Novell guy’s? I really don’t know. I think SuSE will continue as also IDM and ZENworks. But what for [...]

Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 in Novell | 1 Comment »

Novell Data Synchronizer QA

There is a new post on the coolsolutions site from Novell about the most QA about Novell Data Synchronzier. The post is written by Tony Anderson who has been a QA Engineer about 1,5 year. Comman questions are: I can’t connect Is the LDAP server down Is the user connecting in via a wi-fi or [...]

Monday September 20th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

New Novell Certification

Novell has announced some new certifications: Certified Novell Identity Directory Manager Administrator You will learn administration skills such as the following in Course 3109: Novell Identity Manager 4 Administration: Performing traces Checking driver states Managing policies Performing health checks performing basic reporting tasks In Course 3110: Novell Identity Manager 4 : Entitlements, Workflows and Roles [...]

Thursday September 16th, 2010 in Novell, Training | Comments Off

Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack

At Last! Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack v1 is out! This is the moment we all have been waiting for. Now we finally have a new supported method of synchronizing our mobile devices with Groupwise. Even the new Nokia’s and of course the Apple Iphone! Best of all, it’s free to GroupWise 8, Novell Teaming, [...]

Tuesday September 14th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off

Recreation of SSL certificates script for OES1 and OES2

I’ve posted a couple of time but on Coolsolution from Novell there is a post about a script who can recreate all the SSL certificates on the right place for your OES1 and OES2 server. As of Augustus 12 there is a new version out by jmeldrum. Fixes and Enhancements: Version 1.1 The script will [...]

Friday August 13th, 2010 in Novell | Comments Off