Novell Technical Subscriptions
November 2005 Highlights - Tech Select Service
Are you ready for an exciting update to your subscription? In addition to the new Novell Consolidated Support Pack™ and your 2006 Novell® evaluation software licenses, this month's shipment includes a variety of other resources. You'll receive the updated LogicSource® for eDirectory™, more than 20 new bonus utilities and technical papers, as well as 73 new patches, essential documentation, 724 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs) and 200 Product Communities updates. Take a few minutes to download and start using these resources today!
- Upcoming Software
- Advanced and Expanded Resources
- Support Resources
- Technical Information Resources
- Developer Resources
- What's New and Upcoming
Upcoming Software
Mark your calendar—many exciting new Novell® products are releasing in the next few months:
Novell eDirectory 8.8
It's the latest version of the industry-leading Novell directory solution—and it's coming soon to your monthly subscription!
Novell eDirectory provides a foundation for the world's largest identity-management deployments, allowing businesses to manage identities and security access for employees, customers and partners.
Following is a sample of the many new features available in eDirectory 8.8:
- Installation updates
- Priority Sync
- Improved subtree-search performance
- and more
Novell Small Business Suite
Small businesses, rejoice! The latest version of the full-service Novell business software suite is shipping soon. Novell Small Business Suite bundles easy-to-use tools with networking, collaboration, management and security products that can help you instantly and effortlessly transform your small business into a fully networked powerhouse primed for success.
Novell Identity Manager 3
You won't have to wait long to get your hands on this award-winning Novell identity-management product! Novell Identity Manager 3 includes integration modules that can transform the diverse directories on your network into a secure identity-management system that covers employees, customers and business associates. With Identity Manager, you can create a system that is secure and agile enough to meet today's—and tomorrow's—toughest business challenges.
Advanced and Expanded Resources
Updated LogicSource for eDirectory
Have you ever wanted to know the inner workings of Novell eDirectory? This month's LogicSource for eDirectory gives you a close look.
Novell eDirectory uses a large number of background processes, the majority of which can be manually triggered and monitored. A new section, "eDirectory Background Processes," has been added to "Understanding eDirectory Processes" to offer explanation. This new section describes the following:
- eDirectory Background Process Descriptions—This section lists the most common background processes and explains how they are used.
- Manually Starting the Background Processes—This section explains how to manually trigger the specified background processes for each supported platform.
- Monitoring the Background Processes—This section explains how to monitor the processes.
- Default Intervals—This section lists the different intervals on which each background process runs and explains how to change these intervals.
- Other Non-configurable Background Processes—Some processes cannot be controlled or monitored. This section provides a brief description of these processes.
Bonus Utilities
Need help managing your network? Your November subscription includes more than 20 new utilities to help you optimize key Novell resources, including eDirectory, GroupWise, NetWare, ZENworks and others. Check out the following list for a small sampling of the new utilities shipping this month:
- DSReport:NDS Report Generator—enables you to run reports on any attribute of any object in your eDirectory tree—and you can export your reports to several popular file formats
- Mutate Objects—provides a way to change the class of eDirectory objects
- GWAdresboek—solves a common problem Dutch-language users have when exporting and importing GroupWise address books
- Change—allows you to perform bulk changes in single or multiple files using familiar operations such as search-and-replace, automatic- or interactive-change, and include or exclude
- SendToX—provides a handy set of instructions for getting rid of language files you don't need
- Vendor and Hardware Type Tagging—creates registry key strings for hardware type and vendor name
- Elapsed Time 2.0—determines the elapsed time of LDAP searches
White papers
Be sure to set aside time for reading this month. Your November update includes informative white papers that give you the scoop on the latest version of eDirectory 8.8, and more:
- Novell eDirectory 8.8
- Novell Security Manager Powered by Astaro
- build.rpm: Reproducible Build and Test Cleanrooms for SUSE LINUX
- Why Move from Windows NT to SUSE LINUX?
Support Resources
New Consolidated Support Pack
It's a subscriber favorite: the latest version of Novell Consolidated Support Pack (CSP) is included in this month's shipment. Released in September 2005, Consolidated Support Pack 13 contains the following support packs:
- Novell Open Enterprise Server Support Pack 1
- NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 4a
- Novell Small Business 6.5 Support Pack 4
- Novell Client 4.91 for Windows 2000/XP Support Pack 1
- GroupWise 6.5 Support Pack 5
- GroupWise Messenger 1.0 Support Pack 5
- Novell BorderManager 3.8 Support Pack 4
- Novell NFS Gateway for 6.5 Support Pack 2
- eDirectory 8.7.3.7
- ConsoleOne (v1.3.6e)
The following support packs are included but not updated in CSP 13:
- NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 8
- Novell ZENworks 6.5 Support Pack 1a
- Novell NFS Services 3.0 Support Pack 7
- Novell NetWare iSCSI Initiator 1 Support Pack 2
- Novell Native File Access Pack Support Pack 5
Latest Files and Patches
Keep your systems in top condition by downloading relevant files and patches from among the 73 shipping in this month's release.
Technical Information Resources
New and Updated Documentation
Count on receiving current, in-depth information about the latest Novell software. November's subscription delivers new and updated documentation for the following products:
- Novell Client for Linux
- Evolution 2.4
New Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs)
Our collection of detailed technical documents just keeps growing, and so does your research potential. The 724 newly available Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs) expand your resources for answering even the toughest technical queries.
Product Communities articles
How easy is it to get a fresh perspective on using Novell software? Visit Novell Product Communities today and find out. This month brings your way scores of new AppNotes, feature articles, tips and more. (As always, we welcome additional contributions or feedback on current content.)
Online Web Forums Archive
If you need answers to pressing IT questions, you need the Online Web Forums Archive. This incredible resource for finding answers and insights offers two ways to enlightenment: search an in-depth compilation of answers to similar questions or ask IT experts directly in real time.
Developer Resources
NDK/SDK News
This month's updae contains the latest (October 2005) DVD release of the NDK. The Web was updated on October 5, 2005 with this same release. Changes and updates may have occurred on the Web since the DVD was produced. Please refer to the Web version of the NDK for the latest updates at http://developer.novell.com/ndk/
This NDK release contains the following changes and updates:
The NDK is now available in a wiki theme framework. A wiki is a Web site that allows collaborative editing by any of its users. One of the key attributes of a wiki is that its content can be changed quickly by anyone who uses it. To examine the NDK with this wiki theme, please visit:
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Novell_Developer_Kit
For complete details on this release, please see the NDK 'What's Changed' page located at http://developer.novell.com/ndk/whatsnew.htm. This page will also highlight the changes made since the October 5 NDK cut from which this DVD was produced.
DeveloperNet Newsletters
To find out about the latest DeveloperNet news, program information and articles, check out our recent newsletters:
- October 20, 2005—This edition examines development for security and identity management with articles on Novell Virtual Directory Service and basic Linux/Samba authentication with eDirectory on Novell Linux Small Business Server. You can also learn about free NetWare-to-Linux training. Read the entire newsletter online at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/DeveloperNet_Newsletter_2005-10-20
- October 6, 2005—This edition explores porting, migration and cross-platform development. It includes articles on setting up VMware on Linux, essential tools for migrating from Windows to Linux and how to port from Solaris to Linux on POWER. You can read the newsletter in its entirety by visiting http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/DeveloperNet_Newsletter_2005-10-06
- September 15, 2005—This edition focuses on enterprise Linux management and includes articles on WBEM and OpenWBEM in SUSE Linux and a primer on WBEM and CIM. Read the entire newsletter online at http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/DeveloperNet_Newsletter_2005-09-15
To check out the DeveloperNet Newsletter archive and the newsletter we are currently working on, go to http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Category:DeveloperNet_Newsletters
Early Releases
Here's a small sampling of the early release (beta) products that are now available on the DeveloperNet Portal and the Subscriber Portal. Check back often, as new releases are added regularly.
- Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP3 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T [x86-64] Beta 3 14 Oct 2005
- Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP3 for x86 [i386] Beta 3 14 Oct 2005
- Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) SP2 NetWare 6.5 SP5 Build A07 13 Oct 2005
- Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) SP2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Build A14 19 Oct 2005
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T [x86-64] Beta 3 14 Oct 2005
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 for Itanium Processor Family [ia64] Beta 3 13 Oct 2005
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 for POWER [ppc] Beta 3 14 Oct 2005
- SUSE Linux 10.0 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T [x86-64] Gold Master 21 Sep 2005
- SUSE Linux 10.0 for POWER [ppc] Gold Master 21 Sep 2005
- SUSE Linux 10.0 for x86 [i386] Gold Master 21 Sep 2005
Registration Codes Now Available
You can now get Linux registration codes for the following products:
- Novell Linux Desktop
- Novell Linux Small Business Suite
- Novell Open Enterprise Server
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
To access the codes, go to the DeveloperNet portal, click Subscriber Portal and select your subscription under My Subscriptions.
What's New and Upcoming
Consolidated Support Pack 13 Now Available
If your subscription doesn't include the ever-popular Novell Consolidated Support Pack (CSP), you can purchase it today by visiting http://support.novell.com/tools/csp/orderinfo.html
Install Your New Licenses
Are you already feeling the pressure that accompanies the end of the year? We're alleviating some of that stress by including all of your 2006 evaluation software licenses on CD 1A of this month's shipment. Your current licenses will expire on December 31, 2005, but that doesn't mean you have to wait until the last minute to update them. Instead, do it today and enjoy a relaxing start to the new year!