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Novell Global Sales Conference – Orlando

Woo. Off to sunny Orlando in a few weeks for the annual sales conference. I missed last year; I was on paternity leave.

I’m running three days of ‘Endpoint management training’ for the global pre-sales and technical teams.

I’m juggling the agenda right now – should include:

– Advanced ZCM scenarios; scale, deployment, labs etc
– ZENworks Endpoint Security Management
– ZENworks Patch Management Services update
– Vista deployment and migration lab
– roundtable, roadmap, updates etc

ZENworks Configuration Management – building a custom agent deployment package

A long title for a short post.

The default agent deployment packages created during Primary Server installation are hard coded to the Fully Qualified DNS Name and the static IP address of your server. All well and good for a single server; but what about:

  • DNS round robin
  • servers behind static NAT
  • etc

Here’s how to build a custom agent deployment package with either no server details (add them via registration at deployment time) or with a single DNS name.

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