Six months to BrainShare 2007 – and we’re working on proposed sessions.
The big thing is the Next Generation of ZENworks – I’ve blogged about that before.
I am proposing four sessions – co-presenting with Mark Schouls:
Thoughts?
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So I got inundated with email from inside and outside Novell when I posted that ‘ZENworks for Networks’ was still available for download.
For those that don’t have long memories – ZENworks for Networks was released in 2000 as a directory enabled Quality of Service and Firewall solution. Part of it was from a Novell acquisition of Ukiah in mid-1999.
So why don’t you see ZENworks for Networks anymore? Simple – it was end-of-lifed within a few months.
The market for ‘directory enabled QOS’ disappeared rapidly when pretty much every switch and router vendor added support for LDAP directories within their products. Far better to get native LDAP support (and use eDirectory) than to build a product that competes with the switch vendors.
So where can you find ZENworks for Networks? Have a hunt around the Novell Support site. At a meagre 30MB the product is tiny! The documentation is still around too.
Thanks to all those that asked – for me another gentle wander down memory lane.
Written at: Salt Lake City, UT
In an earlier Cool Blogs post I set out my plan to describe the Next Generation of ZENworks. This is the first in that series – the History of ZENworks.
I have written this series of blog posts using my experience of describing the Next Generation of ZENworks to customers and partners. These are slightly longer posts than normal – I apologise in advance. I hope the content is informative and useful. I look forward to your comments and questions.
Written at: Waltham, MA
I’ve written a little about the Next Generation of ZENworks – it’s time to write some blog posts about what we are planning during 2007.
I planned the structure of this series while visiting customers in Europe; during that tour I was describing our roadmap, strategy and vision – all under Non-Disclosure. My challenge is to share much of that in a public blog, without requiring every one of you to sign a ‘virtual non-disclosure’, and yet keeping the content interesting and useful.
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If you are a ZENworks administrator – you have probably seen that we released ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 in the last few days.
The whole ZENworks team are very proud of this release – it is of high quality, fixes problems reported via Novell Support – and adds some new features to ZENworks 7.
This post will describe how to get ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 and how to install it. My next post will talk about what’s new in this release – including platform support and software distribution bandwidth management.
This will be a longer post than normal – but there is a lot of useful information that needs to be shared!
Written at: Draper, UT
1 – Where to find ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1
We have made some updates to where ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 is downloaded – and also how it can be installed.
The Support Pack is available from http://download.novell.com – you will notice that this is a new set of integrated CD ISO images. The specific link is here:
Documentation for the Support Pack is online at Novell Documentation. The link is here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks7
There is also a comprehensive Support document – TID 10097368 – describing the Support Pack.
There are FIFTEEN ISO images available for the full ZENworks 7 download. You most likely do not need to download them all. Here is a great document describing what is needed for each components of the ZENworks 7 Suite. This document describes what is on each ISO.
2 – installing ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1
First a note on the Support Pack itself.
You have probably noticed that ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 is delivered as a new set of product CD images. We have moved away from a non-integrated support pack. The main benefits of this approach are:
There are really three methods of installing the Support Pack – each method really depends on ‘what you have’ and the size of your organisation.
The CPK based upgrade is the most interesting option – it is new with this release. Take a look at the options for installing this with the Standalone Package Processor. For customers using ZENworks Server Management this is another reason to smile – you can now roll out this support pack after hours, with no interaction.
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Novell have talked about ZENworks futures at every BrainShare and customer event for as long as I remember. During 1999 and 2000 I remember being the Product Manager for ZENworks and talking about the up-coming ZENworks for Desktops 3 release – and how that would run on NT 4 server!
The next generation of ZENworks – you may have heard this by it’s internal development name of Brimstone – is much more than an incremental update.
This next release of our Configuration Management product is designed to deliver several key promises:
My next series of posts will drill down into this next generation of ZENworks – and will include screen shots and other information from the latest engineering milestones.
For the record – Novell does not pre-announce shipping dates for products. We are looking to release this product “during 2007″ – BrainShare 2007 will have a lot of information on this major innovation.
Written at: Tel Aviv, Israel
[Edit: Reposted with updates. Original post 28 June 2006]
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