GroupWise News

I meant to post these earlier but life has been getting in the way, so playing catch up now.

If you're just getting around to installing Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack 1.2.5.299 that was released back in May -  it has been released in the Patch Finder with Z10 fixes and a few other bug fixes

(http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/) - and are having YaST errors when trying to install, you may want to go check the Forums for a thread that was started on 8/7/13. It's in the Data Syncronizer/DS Mobility Pack forum.  You may have a repository issue that is fairly easy to resolve yourself. So save yourself an SR.

In other GW news, if you're experiencing the deleting messages on a BlackBerry 10 device issue, Datasync has just entered into it's beta phase (which is good news) with an anticipated release date of "late 2013" to resolve the issue where when a message is deleted from the Blackberry device, it is also deleted from the server and not simply moved to trash.

VMWare News

As all Novell folks know, the vast majority of Novell admins are versed well beyond Novell products and across a multitude of technologies. A few may not realize though that VMWare started as a means for those of us going the self study route for Novell certs to use the equipment we had on hand to setup practice labs.

I've been using VMWare now for a long time, and have been tossing around the idea of getting my VCP but have been stymied by the mandate to sit the entire course before being "allowed" to sign up and take the exam. That's because there is no local center to take the $2,500 class at, so I'd have to include travel expenses, which put it out of my reach.

Not any more!  As of August 12, 2013, VMWare has made the class available via the web.  Yay!!  Now I can save up my pennies and take the course, which includes electronic version of the guides, practice tests AND an exam voucher.  Not too shabby.

Here's the link with the info on their new OnDemand training:

VCP OnDemand Course