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Training room fun

by | Jan 29, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Ah – this takes me back ten years to 1997/1998 when I was training Intel LANDesk 2.52 and 6.x to customers.

I’m in Singapore and training about 20 partners and internal people. 4 of the training room machines have hardware failure. It seems that about 20% failure rate is normal; the other two Novell tracks are also seeing hardware problems at that rate.

As always – it’s the wear and tear of the training room regime – lots of uptime and rebuilds; as well as the additional shock of running in a high temperature, high humidity environment.

I remember training in Wymeswold with Netman and having 50% failures after a cold weekend – totally different problems.

100 days of ZENworks – Windows only management

by | Jan 29, 2007 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks

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.

digestIT 2004

by | Jan 28, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized

I’m always needing to check the integrity of ISOs and other large downloads; I use md5sum on Linux – and now a new tool on Windows.

digestIT 2004 is a free (beer not speech) tool for calculating the md5 and sha-1 checksums of files.

There is also an interesting project – the Antares Project – which seems to move the integrity checking game a lot further. FIPS-140-2 certification too. That’s interesting.