ZENworks and other systems management tools do a great job of managing software and updates on corporate machines. Have you ever stopped to think about updating software in the most hostile of environments?
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HP aquired Novadigm.
Altiris acquired Previo, Computing Edge, Wise, FSLogic, Bridgewater Tonic and Pedestal.
Symantec have aquired Ghost, Powerquest and On Technologies.
Novell aquired Ximian and Tally Systems.
LANDesk was aquired by Avocent.
Microsoft aquired Softricity and Desktop Standard.
Now Symantec have spent again and announced the intent to acquire Altiris.
I’m in Singapore at the Asia Pacific Partner Academy; we are training partners on the forthcoming ‘ZENworks Pulsar’ release. It’s just gone beta 1.
One question that came up:
How do I integrate ZENworks 7 with Active Directory?
Well – here are the links.
Here is a really cool article from Novell Connection Magazine; it’s from December 2004 and refers to ZENworks 6.5 – but the concepts are valid today.
Also take a look at the Novell Wiki.
Here is how to integrate the ZENworks Middle Tier with a Layer 4 switch; here are the Middle Tier Best Practices.
There have also been several BrainShare sessions on Windows only management. I’ll try and find the links to presentations.
My name is Andy Philp and I am a ZENworks specialist working in Novell Consulting UK. For the past 4 years or so, I have worked with many customers across Europe architecting, designing and implementing solutions with all of the ZENworks products.
So why I am on Cool Blogs? Well, I’m very passionate about ZENworks and want to hear from you directly regarding your experiences, good or bad, so we can learn from each other. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing my experiences and posting tips and tricks to help you maximise your ZENworks experience.
I hope you find my future posts informative and useful.
Written at: Frankfurt, Germany
Post 2 of many in the next 100 days – talking about ZENworks.
Ah – time to travel home from Düsseldorf. Up early and to the airport.
It’s great seeing your product in use. Lufthansa check-in desks are powered by NAL. Check-in agent logs in, up pops NAL and all of the applications.
I’m travelling United from Chicago to Salt Lake City – and United are also a ZENworks customers.
Take a look next time you fly. You might be having your check-in made possible by ZENworks.
First of a long series of posts from the next 100 or so days talking about the next version of ZENworks.
I’m in Düsseldorf – running an internal training course on ‘Pulsar’. I wrote a pretty detailed, deep dive, technical training course on ‘Pulsar’ and delivered it today.
I’ve been polishing and writing labs and training course notes all week; I’ve had a couple of hours sleep in the last three days.
Today was the actual training – and I think it went well. We trained 25 internal people from across EMEA on the next version of the product; yesterday was training on our messaging and positioning; tomorrow is marketing, positioning and ITIL training.
It’s been a long time since I spent time with this many EMEA people in technical training; the response so far has been very positive.
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