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March 2010 Highlights - Novell Professional Resource Suite

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Your Novell Professional Resource Suite shipment for March is a treasure trove of excellent resources and updates to help you fine tune your Novell products. It features 8 new and updated bonus utilities, 5 new technical white papers, 75 new or updated guides, 399 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDS), 27 ReadMe files and patches, 55 new Cool Solutions articles, and 194 YES Bulletins. Check it out today and make the most of your subscription.

Updated Software

This month, the Novell Clients have been updated. The Novell Client workstation software extends the capabilities of Linux and Windows desktops by providing access to NetWare and Open Enterprise Server (OES). Once installed on workstations, Novell Clients enable users to enjoy the full range of Novell services such as authentication via Novell eDirectory, network browsing and service resolution, and secure and reliable file system access-all delivered through industry-standard protocols. The Client supports Novell's traditional NCP protocol.

As many of you are GroupWise users, then you probably are already aware that the Hot Patch for GroupWise 8.0 has been released. The Hot Patch contains security fixes in the Windows Client, Web access and GWIA components .

New and updated software includes:

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows Vista

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows 2008

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows 7

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows 2008

  • Novell Client 2 SP1 for Windows 7

Advanced Resources

Technical White Papers

Novell White Papers are crucial in helping our customers and partners understand best practices around Novell products. Novell File Management Suite is one of our newest products. Discover how you can intelligently manage file storage to maximize benefits to your business.

It's no secret that climate change and social responsibility are at the forefront of many new policies across multiple industries and the Novell Green Team report on Minimizing Our Cabon Footprint is a timely source of information.

Hopefully you're busy evaluation the PlateSpin products you received in last month's shipment. To help you understand the business needs that drive workload management, take a look at The Importance of Choosing the Right Workload Management Tools.

  • In Minimizing Our Carbon Footprint A Report from the Novell Green Team, read how climate change and social responsibility challenge IT professionals across a broad range of industries.

  • No business can afford downtime, whether it's due to natural disasters or other unforeseen circumstances. A Practical Guide to Cost-effective Disaster Recovery Planning guides you through the necessary preparations to keep your business operational no matter what happens.

  • Using Novell® ZENworks® Configuration Management to Accelerate Windows* 7 Migrations ensures that your Windows 7 migrations are quick, effective and painless.

  • The Importance of Choosing the Right Workload Migration Tools will help you get the most out of the PlateSpin products you received last month.

Bonus Utilities

Also check out the 8 new and updated Bonus Utilities-power-packed programs to help you get the most from your Novell software. Here are a couple of samples:

  • Server User Mail Tool alerts users who will be affected by Server Maintenance in OES environments.

  • ZENworks Diagnostic Center (ZDC) performs a series of diagnostic tests on ZCM Primary Servers and determines the state of the Primary Servers and the Management zone.

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

The March shipment includes 27 ReadMe files and patches to help you keep your software running at its peak. Our patches are pretested and 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 using many different parameters so you can find exactly what you need.

Technical Information Resources

Product Documentation

For our March shipment here is just a small sample of the new and updated documentation included:

  • Business Continuity Clustering / BCC 1.2: Administration Guide for Linux

  • Dynamic File Services / Dynamic File Services: Installation and Administration GuideDynamic File Services Help Topics

  • Identity Manager 3.5 / Novell Identity Manager 3.5.1 Administration Guide

  • Open Enterprise Server 2 / OES 2 SP2: Web and Application Services Overview

  • PlateSpin Migrate for Dell 8.1 / PlateSpin Migrate for Dell 8.1 Getting Started Guide

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Do you like to dig deeper? Then your March shipment will give you plenty of shovels. It includes 399 new Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs). TIDs include detailed information and important solutions for your technical questions about Novell products. Our improved search utility allows you to 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

The Cool Solutions online community gathers all the innovative tips about your Novell products in one spot. This month you will find 55 new Cool Solutions articles, which means you get 55 ways to make IT work as one-written by Novell engineers and users just like you. We think it's the best source around for tips, tricks, and high-octane tweaks for your Novell products. Stop by today and download free tools, share your expertise and see what else you can learn from this outstanding community.

YES Bulletins

What can you do with the 194 new YES Bulletins shipping in March? You can see which 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, and the large number of YES bulletins this month means you're closer than ever to making IT work as one.

What's New and Upcoming

Say Hello to Novell Training and Support Bundle!

We've renamed the Novell Elite Services Pack to the Novell Training and Support Bundle, combining the Novell Professional Resource Suite and the entire contents of the On-Demand Training Library. This new offering has been created in response to the growing demands on Novell experts in an ever-more competitive IT market. If you've already subscribed to the Novell Professional Resource Suite, then you know how helpful it is to have such a complete set of tools at your fingertips.

Meet Us in Salt Lake City in 2010

Don't forget to book your tickets to Salt Lake City for Brainshare 2010, March 21-25. Meet peers, learn about our upcoming technology, and take the time to get the training you need to best meet your customers' needs. If you can't make it to Salt Lake City, don't forget that Brainshare will be in Europe May 18-21 in Amsterdam.

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