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July 2009 Highlights - Novell Tech Select Service

Novell Technical Subscriptions

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In this month's shipment, we are delivering a multitude of information that will help you make IT work as one. Your July subscription includes 17 new and updated bonus utilities, six new technical white papers, two new self-study manuals, 520 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDS), more than 70 new and updated documentation guides, 22 ReadMe files and patches, 131 new Cool Solutions articles and 757 YES Bulletins. Use your Novell Tech Select Service subscription to get the tools you need to reduce cost, complexity and risk in your business..

New Software

People used to think that high availability solutions were only available to big businesses with big infrastructures and even bigger budgets. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension—releasing in this month's shipment— is here to prove that that's not true. It's an affordable, integrated suite of innovative open source clustering technologies that lets you implement highly available Linux clusters. This helps you maintain business continuity, protect data integrity, and reduce unplanned downtime for your mission-critical Linux workloads.

It delivers all of the essential monitoring, messaging, and cluster resource management functionality of proprietary third-party solutions, but at a more affordable price. High availability is now within the reach of any business.

And that's not all. July's shipment also includes new versions of your favorite Novell ZENworks products, including Novell ZENworks 10 SP 2 Configuration Management, Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 7.0 and much more.

Advanced Resources

Bonus Utilities

Our Bonus Utilities help you work more efficiently with the Novell solutions you use most often. Whether that's delivering extra functionalities, or extra tools and plugins, we're giving you what you need to ensure that your Novell products are ready for any challenge. This month's release alone includes 17 new and updated bonus utilities, so you can get your business running in top form, including.

  • GroupWise 2 Skype records data on phone calls made through Skype into a GroupWise box.

  • Novell Localisation Workbench is a comprehensive tool to allow the safe translation and reuse of previous translations in Novell Software.

  • Universal Policy Password Change GUI Tool changes all the users in an OU with a particular password policy to another policy.

Self-Study Manuals

We offer a wide range of self-study materials called self-study manuals. These manuals are developed in tandem with Novell course materials and include hands-on exercises, practice tests and demonstrations to help you learn the material. And this month, we're releasing two new manuals to help you stay up to date with the latest Novell technologies:

  • Implementing Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 for Linux (Course 3089) Version 2 is designed to provide hands-on experience using the Linux platform to host Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 services. This course will you migrate the services currently running on NetWare over to Novell Open Enterpriser Server 2 for Linux.

  • Implementing Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 for Linux Workbook (Course 3089) Version 2

Technical White Papers

Business Service Management solutions from Novell can help you solve your toughest infrastructure challenges. They help you more effectively monitor and manage your IT infrastructure, help you reduce IT outages and downtime, minimize the risks associated with IT changes, and they do all this while lowering your overall IT costs. How do they do it? Through products like Novell Business Experience Manager. If you want more information about this great product, about our Business Service Management solutions in general, or about any of the following informational topics, check out any of the six technical white papers releasing this month.

  • A Technical Overview of Novell Business Experience Manager

  • A Technical Overview of Novell Business Service Management Solutions

  • Novell Compliance Management Platform Extension for SAP Environments

  • Next-Generation Service Level Management

  • Novell ZENworks Configuration Management SP2: Key Strengths and Features

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server vs. Solaris 10 on x86

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

This month, we're shipping 22 ReadMe files and patches. What does this mean to you? Our pre-tested patches can help you with bug fixes, graphic replacements, usability and performance on products like Novell Identity Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS, Novell Sentinel and more. Just take a few minutes to download and apply them, and you'll be able to keep your systems running better than ever.

Technical Information Resources

Product Documentation

With so many updates to Novell ZENworks products releasing this month, we thought it would be a good time to remind you about the scads of new and updated guides and reference manuals we have. No matter what product you're looking for—from Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management to Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management to Novell Open Enterprise Server—we have documentation to cover it. For all your Novell product needs, be sure to check out the more than 100 new and updated guides and manuals shipping this month.

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Have you heard about our Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)? These documents include detailed technical information that can answer all your important technical questions. If you have a specific question, just check our searchable database: it makes it easy to find exactly what you're looking for. Our November shipment includes 520 TIDs, so check them out today.

Cool Solutions Articles

This month, we've added 131 new Cool Solutions articles to our Cool Solutions community. Users, administrators and developers share their secrets in this online community, which offers articles, tips, Q&As and free tools to download. In addition to the Cool Solutions articles, this online community also offers support, forums, wikis, a glossary, blogs and more.

YES Bulletins

We want to make sure that the software you use is compatible with your Novell products. That's why we're releasing 757 YES Bulletins this month. We're working hard to keep you up to date on the newest YES certified products, so you can make IT work as one.

What's New and Upcoming

Preview Evaluation Software!

Get a sneak peek! We post the images for updated evaluation software two or more weeks before you receive your update kit. For an early look at what's shipping—or to download the software immediately—visit the Software Download area of the Subscriber Portal and look for the latest CDs/DVDs. (Hint: Try using the Date Posted field to find the latest software.)

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