Recent information is that during testing a new bug was discovered that could cause issues when upgrading. The good news is this was caught in testing rather than after it was released. And while the delay may not be long, and some people may be disappointed, I am glad they caught it now and are fixing it prior to release.
Another item that was brought up is a new TID related to updating the ZENworks News Items in ZCC. Some didn't get a hold of the original 11.2.3, but apparently there may be an issue with some folks not seeing an item regarding 11.2.3. If you're one of the people that didn't see something regarding 11.2.3 and are running on Linux, try this out:
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Annual Training Opporutnity for MidWest folks
This one is put on by a friend's user group and has had great reviews from those that have attended in the past. If you can make, it sounds like a great deal!
For those of you in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, there's an IT conference next month with some great Novell training. It is the Illinois Valley Network Users Association conference April 17-18. A
few Novell folk including yours truly will be there giving a few sessions on ZCM, ZMM, GroupWise, and Filr/iPrint. In addition, a trainer from Novell training will be there giving some ATT courses both days. Here are the Novell session topics.
Breakout Sessions
Novell ZenWorks Present and Future Roadmap
Embracing BYOD in the Enterprise with ZENworks Mobile Management
Novell GroupWise Windermere Deep Dive
Extending Your File and Print Services to Mobile Devices with Novell
Filr and Novell iPrint
ATT Sessions
ZenWorks Patch Management (3.5 hr)
ZenWorks Mobile Management (3.5 hr)
ZenWorks Configuration Management Essentials (1 day)
Full conference schedule
http://www.ivnua.org/training-seminars.php
Class descriptions
http://www.ivnua.org/class-descriptions.php
The conference is only $230 (after using discount code "novell"), and the ATT courses are $100 for a half day class and $200 for the full day class. This is a great learning opportunity, especially for those that did not make it to BrainShare. The conference is in Utica, IL which is about 1 hour south of Rockford / 1.5 hours west of Chicago / 1.5 hours east of Quad Cities.
For those of you in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, there's an IT conference next month with some great Novell training. It is the Illinois Valley Network Users Association conference April 17-18. A
few Novell folk including yours truly will be there giving a few sessions on ZCM, ZMM, GroupWise, and Filr/iPrint. In addition, a trainer from Novell training will be there giving some ATT courses both days. Here are the Novell session topics.
Breakout Sessions
Novell ZenWorks Present and Future Roadmap
Embracing BYOD in the Enterprise with ZENworks Mobile Management
Novell GroupWise Windermere Deep Dive
Extending Your File and Print Services to Mobile Devices with Novell
Filr and Novell iPrint
ATT Sessions
ZenWorks Patch Management (3.5 hr)
ZenWorks Mobile Management (3.5 hr)
ZenWorks Configuration Management Essentials (1 day)
Full conference schedule
http://www.ivnua.org/training-seminars.php
Class descriptions
http://www.ivnua.org/class-descriptions.php
The conference is only $230 (after using discount code "novell"), and the ATT courses are $100 for a half day class and $200 for the full day class. This is a great learning opportunity, especially for those that did not make it to BrainShare. The conference is in Utica, IL which is about 1 hour south of Rockford / 1.5 hours west of Chicago / 1.5 hours east of Quad Cities.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
BrainShare 2013 and a Cool App
So, BrainShare 2013 is over and I missed it all. Well, almost all of it, thanks to Danita Zanre, Tom Hafeman, Willem Bagchus, and Susie Winterhoff, I got to see lots of pics and a few videos so I don't feel quite so left out.
Post conference reports indicate that our "old" Novell is back and that the conference was a success. Lots of conversations about the new products, the keynotes were upbeat and useful, and Filr was in heavy use. I have yet to try to activate my Filr account, but definitely want to get my hands on it. Might be time to upgrade my internet so that I can have a dedicated IP for my play lab...that or get some cloud space somewhere.
Dates are still being discussed for BrainShare 2014, I'm saving up my pennies and vacation days to be there, whenever it is announced.
I also learned about a smartphone app that I had not been aware of previously. It's probably been out there for some time, but I'm not a huge smartphone app user. Battery life being what it is, and being spoiled by my old Blackberry, I tend to use my smartphone for as a phone.
Available for iOS and Android, search for "learningcentral", making sure you select the one made by Novell (there are more than one on the Android side at least). Use this app to locate and download materials from ATT Live, SUSECon and BrainShare. Pretty sweet!
Overall, it seems like Novell is set for a revival. Hopefully the Attachmate folks will have better marketing success than the Novell of the past. There's no need to repeat those mistakes!
Post conference reports indicate that our "old" Novell is back and that the conference was a success. Lots of conversations about the new products, the keynotes were upbeat and useful, and Filr was in heavy use. I have yet to try to activate my Filr account, but definitely want to get my hands on it. Might be time to upgrade my internet so that I can have a dedicated IP for my play lab...that or get some cloud space somewhere.
Dates are still being discussed for BrainShare 2014, I'm saving up my pennies and vacation days to be there, whenever it is announced.
I also learned about a smartphone app that I had not been aware of previously. It's probably been out there for some time, but I'm not a huge smartphone app user. Battery life being what it is, and being spoiled by my old Blackberry, I tend to use my smartphone for as a phone.
Available for iOS and Android, search for "learningcentral", making sure you select the one made by Novell (there are more than one on the Android side at least). Use this app to locate and download materials from ATT Live, SUSECon and BrainShare. Pretty sweet!
Overall, it seems like Novell is set for a revival. Hopefully the Attachmate folks will have better marketing success than the Novell of the past. There's no need to repeat those mistakes!
Sunday, January 27, 2013
New GroupWise Book!!
Yes, people still care about and use GroupWise enough to write a new administrator's guide for 2012. Not only does someone care, it's someone I know who wrote it, and he's an amazing Karoke singer to boot.
Willem Bagchus, of former GWAVA fame, has written the latest book to come out, Novell GroupWise 2012 Administrator's Guide. He's also offering a special on it if you pre-order before February 28, 2013.
Better yet, pick it up at BrainShare and I'm pretty sure you can talk him into autographing it for you. And if you do, please tell him hello for me.
I will miss seeing you all this year, but other duties call that also make it impractical for me to get cookies out there in time. (Actually, I don't trust UPS or USPS to get them there on time).
Willem Bagchus, of former GWAVA fame, has written the latest book to come out, Novell GroupWise 2012 Administrator's Guide. He's also offering a special on it if you pre-order before February 28, 2013.
Better yet, pick it up at BrainShare and I'm pretty sure you can talk him into autographing it for you. And if you do, please tell him hello for me.
I will miss seeing you all this year, but other duties call that also make it impractical for me to get cookies out there in time. (Actually, I don't trust UPS or USPS to get them there on time).
Friday, January 11, 2013
BrainShare Conference Party
In case you didn't see the post on the Novell forums, NetIQ and Novell have rallied to bring back the BrainShare Conference Party (a.k.a. concert).
This year it will be Sawyer Brown (yep, it's country, yep, I like them so blppptt!). I'm a bit bummed because I won't be there this year, but other duties call.
Conference party will be on Wednesday, February 6th. Hope you all have a blast!
I will be working on some new tech, at the current job (still love it), that will be having me travel to our corporate office. Unfortunately for you all, that means no cookies. There just isn't enough time to get the done in time to ship. Sorry folks.
If you miss my Snickerdoodles that much just wait a few months. I'm working on an cookbook that I'll self-publish in an eBook format that I hope to release by June. The receipe for them is in there. Or you can find it on my other blog: pyrhaven.blogspot.com if you desperate for them now.
One last bit of "bad" news: no BrainShare Buddies this year.
This year it will be Sawyer Brown (yep, it's country, yep, I like them so blppptt!). I'm a bit bummed because I won't be there this year, but other duties call.
Conference party will be on Wednesday, February 6th. Hope you all have a blast!
I will be working on some new tech, at the current job (still love it), that will be having me travel to our corporate office. Unfortunately for you all, that means no cookies. There just isn't enough time to get the done in time to ship. Sorry folks.
If you miss my Snickerdoodles that much just wait a few months. I'm working on an cookbook that I'll self-publish in an eBook format that I hope to release by June. The receipe for them is in there. Or you can find it on my other blog: pyrhaven.blogspot.com if you desperate for them now.
One last bit of "bad" news: no BrainShare Buddies this year.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Tail Gate at BrainShare 2012
Well, someone pointed out that the start of BrainShare falls on the same day as the Super Bowl. Novell and it's partners stepped up and there will now be big screen TV's on site to provide you with your Super Bowl fix. Check out the Facebook page on BrainShare for more details. BTW, on FB it is spelled Brainshare because FB in their infinite wisdom has decided how things are to be capitalized.
I hope you all have a blast. More urgent, and important, issues will be keeping me home this year. I had been looking forward to going and will miss catching up with everyone. Someone will have to be my mooch-replacement...at least it will save the shipping folks from some back strain.
I hope you all have a blast. More urgent, and important, issues will be keeping me home this year. I had been looking forward to going and will miss catching up with everyone. Someone will have to be my mooch-replacement...at least it will save the shipping folks from some back strain.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Is it a TimeWarp?
It's beginning to feel a bit like the late 80's/early 90's to me when it comes to Microsoft and hardware vendors. It may be time for me to Time Warp back to the olden days when I built my own desktop and moved to only the PC platform from Apple due to the OS being too locked down from my POV.
Windows 8 is here and while it may be a good "consumer" grade OS, it's not a gamer's OS (heck World of WarCraft won't run on it, but it will run on Linux), nor is it an OS-centric IT tech's OS. I can't run the vast majority of my tools on it, not to mention that color explosion makes my eyes water.
I need to be able to get to a command prompt. I need to see how my machine is performing. I need a keyboard. What I don't need is what I consider a dumbed-down UI, that's what I have my iPad for. And I like my external mouse, my fingers are simply too fat to deal with the on-board touchpad let alone a touch screen device (have you not seen some of my text messages?) ,and don't get me started on those pencil eraser styled doo-hickeys.
HP is what's triggering this potential shift back to building my own desktops. They've recently announced that consumer grade laptops and desktops are to be left at Windows 8 and that they are not to be back revved to Windows 7. For those of us who've been around long enough, we recognize that this latest version of Windows is nearly pre-destined to be a "bad" version, and one to be skipped in our larger environments. Makes me wonder what M$ is doing on the backside in terms of licensing with the OEM vendors. I had the "oh-so-wonderful-joy" of dealing with licensing M$ on OEM hardware when we also sold an OS2 version of our solution.
We're just starting a big Windows 7 roll out at my new gig, I can't imagine the headache if we get forced into Windows 8. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt! Will someone please pass the Excedrin?
ComputerWorld has a good article on this:
HP to consumer customers: don't downgrade new PCs to Windows 7
Windows 8 is here and while it may be a good "consumer" grade OS, it's not a gamer's OS (heck World of WarCraft won't run on it, but it will run on Linux), nor is it an OS-centric IT tech's OS. I can't run the vast majority of my tools on it, not to mention that color explosion makes my eyes water.
I need to be able to get to a command prompt. I need to see how my machine is performing. I need a keyboard. What I don't need is what I consider a dumbed-down UI, that's what I have my iPad for. And I like my external mouse, my fingers are simply too fat to deal with the on-board touchpad let alone a touch screen device (have you not seen some of my text messages?) ,and don't get me started on those pencil eraser styled doo-hickeys.
HP is what's triggering this potential shift back to building my own desktops. They've recently announced that consumer grade laptops and desktops are to be left at Windows 8 and that they are not to be back revved to Windows 7. For those of us who've been around long enough, we recognize that this latest version of Windows is nearly pre-destined to be a "bad" version, and one to be skipped in our larger environments. Makes me wonder what M$ is doing on the backside in terms of licensing with the OEM vendors. I had the "oh-so-wonderful-joy" of dealing with licensing M$ on OEM hardware when we also sold an OS2 version of our solution.
We're just starting a big Windows 7 roll out at my new gig, I can't imagine the headache if we get forced into Windows 8. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt! Will someone please pass the Excedrin?
ComputerWorld has a good article on this:
HP to consumer customers: don't downgrade new PCs to Windows 7
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