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An introduction

by | Jan 23, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks

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

Windows Vista SP1

by | Jan 22, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized

Vista has been available for corporates since November; the retail launch is readying for the end of January.

Meanwhile there is a lot of discussion about Vista Service Pack 1 and when that will appear.

Microsoft Watch and a few others point to ‘project Fiji’ as SP1; and talk about a fall/autumn availability. This is slightly sooner than Windows XP SP1 (just under a year) – but if it’s true it will accelerate enterprise deployments for those that ‘wait for SP1 before deployment’.

Tweaking Collanos Workplace

by | Jan 19, 2007 | Evangelism, Technology, Uncategorized

I’ve blogged about Collanos before.

I’ve had to tweak the client to make best use of bandwidth. I’m finding that because most of my team are on pretty fast connections – fast DSL, fast LAN – the default settings are too conservative.

I suggested to the Collanos people that they have a ‘I have infinite bandwidth’ setting.

Here are my two settings that I changed.

Under Tools – Preferences, select Connections. Select Individual and click Apply.

Next click on Advanced Bandwidth Settings and bump up the upload and download speeds; also set the upload and download to use more threads.