October 2009 Highlights - Novell Professional Resource Suite

Novell Technical Subscriptions

Our October shipment of Novell Professional Resource Suite includes more ways than ever to make IT work as one: six new and updated bonus utilities, two new Self-study Manuals, three new technical white papers, 22 new or updated guides, 586 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDS), 21 ReadMe files and patches, 153 new Cool Solutions articles, and 161 YES Bulletins. In addition to all of this, you get exciting updates to Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization, Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management, Novell Sentinel Log Manager, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. Get the most out of your IT investments by putting these informative resources to good use!

• Updated Software
• Advanced Resources
• Support Resources
• Technical Information Resources
• What's New and Upcoming

Updated Software

October's release brings several important updates to key software.

Novell ZENworks® Application Virtualization 7.1 leads the pack. It gives you even more control over your virtualized applications, leading to lower testing and deployment costs, greater user productivity, and stronger security and business continuity. And now, with release 7.1, you can also enjoy:

• Support for Windows 7

• Improved Internet Explorer 6 emulation mode and coexistence with Internet Explorer 7 and 8

• The ability to expire virtualized applications

• Improved .Net 3.5 client profile

The October shipment also includes the following updates:

• Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 IR7

• Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack

Fire them up today!

Advanced Resources

Self-Study Manuals

This month's shipment helps you stay at the top of your game with two new Self-study Manuals about Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management. You can learn at your own pace and be ready for every opportunity that presents itself.

• Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management JumpStart Manual and Workbook (Course 8000) will help you understand how to configure the key features of ZENworks 10 Configuration Management.

Technical White Papers

For people who thrive on technical details, this month's shipment features three new technical white papers with meaty details about key product functions and benefits. Here's a taste to whet your appetite:

• In Benefits of Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 over 8.7.3x, you can read about our standards-compliant, cross-platform, highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance directory service solution. This white paper lists eDirectory 8.8 SP5 features and performance results that demonstrate the advantages of deploying eDirectory 8.8 SP5 over eDirectory 8.7.3x.

• In the Novell Collaboration Vision white paper, learn about our plan to enable organizations to leverage their existing IT infrastructure investments to converge the best of traditional collaboration environments and the latest real-time, social interactions. With open architecture supported by enterprise-level security and management, Novell will bring together disparate collaboration systems, tools and technologies to deliver an innovative collaboration experience that drives productivity and business success.

• The Novell Teaming 2 white paper teaches you how Teaming 2 can bring the right people with the right skills together in secure, online workspaces where they can interact easily. These workspace serves as digital “offices” where team members, working locally or dispersed geographically, can gather to coordinate their efforts, information, resources and skillsets toward the completion or maintenance of a project, purpose or topic of interest.

Bonus Utilities

If you haven't discovered bonus utilities yet, this month's shipment gives you six opportunities to do so. These power-packed little programs can save you work and time and help you prime your Novell software to do the heavy IT lifting. Take them for a test drive today!

• iPrintUp: Automatic update of iPrint drivers on your XP workstations allows you to easily keep all your workstations up to date with the right printer drivers.

• Automated NetWare Volume Inventory Retrieval: Retrieve a current volume inventory of any physical volume on the server (the script ignores _ADMIN).

• Core File Deletor: Delete core.xxx files created by eDirectory in the dib directory.

• eDirectory Collisioned Object Finder v1.0: Extract the schema naming attributes and all object RDNs from the context entered and below.

• Novell Localisation Workbench: A comprehensive tool that allows the safe translation and reuse of previous translations in Novell software.

• supportconfig for Linux: Collect and organize detailed system information and logs in a manner that helps reduce service request resolution times.

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

This month, we're making it easier for you to keep your systems patched and updated—our October shipment includes 21 ReadMe files and patches. Our pretested patches can help you with bug fixes, graphic replacements, usability and performance. Just take a few minutes to download and apply them—you can search our database by product, date of release, platform and more.

Technical Information Resources

Product Documentation

Novell Teaming 2.0 uses social networking technologies to enable new and productive collaboration in the enterprise. Named as a leader in the 2009 Forrester Wave Report, Novell Teaming helps teams generate and act on great ideas. It also helps the enterprise retain the team's knowledge even if members of the team leave.

The October shipment includes all the documentation you need to make Teaming a powerful collaboration tool for your company. You'll get updated Administration, Installation, and User Guides for both Novell and Kablink Teaming 2.0, and Advanced User and Developer Guides for do-it-yourselfers.

In addition, your October shipment includes the following new or updated documentation:

• Novell Client for Linux 1.2 Installation Quick Start

• Open Enterprise Server 2 SP1: Novell MySQL for NetWare Administration Guide

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 Guide

• Subscription Management Tool Guide

• Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 7.1 Integration Guide

• Novell GroupWise 8 Administration, Installation, and Interoperability Guides

• PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 Configuration, Installation, and User Guides

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Our October shipment includes 586 new Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs). TIDs include detailed information that can answer all your important technical questions about Novell products. You can search the database in many ways to find exactly what you're looking for. Check out our new and updated TIDs today.

Cool Solutions Articles

We think our customers are the smartest people in the industry. That's why we created the Cool Solutions online community—to gather all the innovative tips in one spot. You will find 153 new Cool Solutions articles this month. That's 153 ways that Novell engineers and users just like you are making IT work as one with Novell products. Stop by Cool Solutions today and find answers to your questions, download free tools, share your expertise and see what else this outstanding community has to offer.

YES Bulletins

October's shipment brings 161 new YES Bulletins. What does that mean for you? It means 161 applications are newly certified to to be compatible with your Novell products. Our YES-certified partners include companies you rely on every day to do business. Take a look and see how close you are to making IT work as one.

What's New and Upcoming

Say Goodbye to Folio Search!

Novell currently includes two search functions as part of the Novell Professional Resource Suite: the Windows-based Folio search and the multi-platform search. In the January 2010 release, the Windows-based Folio search will no longer be included.

Don't Be Caught by Surprise!

Since the Folio search is going away soon, we suggest you install and run the multi-platform search now and get familiar with its features if you have not already. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions, concerns or requests.

Advanced Search Feature on the Multi-platform Search

To drill down while using the multi-platform search, just click on the Advanced search button and start typing. The number of hits that you would get with that particular search string displays as you type. This will help you narrow your search to a manageable number of search results.