August 25th, 2005 11am - GroupWise 7

This month’s DNUG meeting will cover GroupWise 7, the new features, and real life testing. Jason Gutierrez from The University of North Texas http://www.unt.edu will give a presentation on GroupWise 7 on August 25th. As a contributing member of the GW7 beta support forums Jason will being with him his GW7 experience & a demo and will be able to answer nearly any question you may have about GW7.

About GroupWise - Novell GroupWise is a complete collaboration software solution providing enterprise users with e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, task management, document management and data storage functions.

The first 12 people through the door will receive a Novell Linux Desktop Decal Kit

We will also have some DVDs crammed full of goodies such as the Novell Brainshare 2005 Breakout Session Presentation Files & Videos, along with archived videos from past Brainshares and more.

Time: 11:00AM - 12:30PM
Date: August 25th 2005
Meeting agenda:
11:00 - 11:10 - Meet & Greet
11:10 - 12:00 - Presentation and product demos, Q&A
12:00 - 12:20 - Open forum (ask any tech questions about any product)
12:20 - 12:25 - Door prizes
12:25 - 12:30 - DNUG business

Location: The Dallas Novell office
6565 North MacArthur Blvd Suite 500
Irving, TX 75039
972-501-6712
Lunch not provided by DNUG, however we will be going to a local dining establishment after the meeting.

To RSVP, please email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232
FYI: What you missed last meeting –
11:00AM - PIZZA! Kent Lamb - category specialist in the southern region presented this month's topic. Kent brought a demo of OES server & NLD desktop with Linux Novell client and GW7. Kent talked about Novell's commitment to NetWare, & about other products, especially ones in public beta. NetWare is not going away, the name is, it will be referred to OES, the NCP kernel is not going away. Novell will be committing to another 15 yrs of development on the NetWare/NCP kernel. In 1999 Novell started moving away from being NetWare centric to services, splitting the services off to all other platforms. Some major companies like Oracle start coding on SLES, as does SAP. Novell picked SuSE because the worldwide familiarity, the organized commercial pricing structure, the SINGLE codebase between the different versions & even hardware platforms, which simplifies the write once run on any version of (SuSE) Linux. GroupWise 7 – the outlook plugin for GroupWise was actually developed with cooperation from the Outlook team at Microsoft (much to the chagrin of the exchange group). The outlook team simply wants their client in front of as many people as possible, they didn't care about the backend. Xplat client now has feature parity (spell check!) Edir 88 – encryption for attributes (say for SS# or such). Defined sync schedule. Multiple trees on one box. Define port listening on. SLES – apparmour – yast plugin for memory protection on servers for security (SE). ZLM (zenworks Linux management, formerly known as red carpet) – feature parity is nearing win/lin. Novell is farming out a building on the Provo campus dedicated to programmers who want to certify their product on SLES, Novell is willing to pay for part of that & provide a place to do the coding. BMEE/Astero – Linux appliance – antispyware & anti adware blocking. Novell security manager & bmee will merge.

June 30th, 2005 11am

Novell - Where is it now, and where is it going?

Kent Lamb of Novell Inc http://www.Novell.com will give a presentation on Novell’s roadmap on June 30.

The first 12 people through the door will receive a Novell Linux Desktop Decal Kit

We will also have some DVDs crammed full of goodies such as the Novell Brainshare 2005 Breakout Session Presentation Files & Videos, along with archived videos from past Brainshares and more.

Time: 11:00AM - 01:00PM
Date: June 30th 2005
Meeting agenda:
11:00 - 11:30 - Meet & Greet, Lunch
11:30 - 12:30 - Presentation and product demos, Q&A
12:30 - 12:50 - Open forum (ask any tech questions about any product)
12:50 - 12:55 - Door prizes
12:55 - 01:00 - Dnug business

Location: The Dallas Novell office
6565 North MacArthur Blvd Suite 500
Irving, TX 75039
Lunch is provided by Novell

RSVP, email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232

September 30th, 2004 11am

ZENworks Patch Management

Randal Senter (CNE) and Byron Ware (MCNE, CNI) of The Harding Group http://www.harding-group.com will give a presentation on Novell’s ZENworks Patch Management on September 30. What is it you may ask, well below is a quick synopsis of the product.

Time: 11:00AM - 01:00PM
Date: September 30th 2004
Meeting agenda:
11:00 - 11:30 - Meet & Greet, Lunch
11:30 - 12:30 - Product Demo, Q&A
12:30 - 12:50 - Open forum (ask any tech questions about any product)
12:50 - 01:00 - Dnug business

Location The Harding Group offices - 1250 E. Copeland Rd, Suite 800
Arlington, TX 76011 (in the Wells Fargo building)
Lunch is provided by The Harding Group

RSVP, email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232

What is Novell’s ZENworks Patch Management?
Novell® ZENworks Patch Management, powered by PatchLink Corporation, is a powerful, automated patch management solution. With full support for patches for Microsoft* Windows* and Novell NetWare®, administrators can quickly determine what patches are right for their organization and automatically apply them across their enterprise.

The Harding Group, headquartered in Arlington, TX, is a Novell Platinum partner providing a full range of services including product sales, integration, implementation, and superior support services. They have been in business for eleven years and also have offices in Austin, Oklahoma, and Alabama. The Harding Group also has expertise in the Storage Area Network area as a Xiotech Premier Partner and expertise with Microsoft as a Gold Certified Partner.

ZENworks Patch Management Web Site (Intro, Admin Guide, Best Practices, Evaluation Download, etc.) http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/patchmanagement/index.html

If you have any questions please email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232

Our library now has copies of Evaluation copies of Suse Linux 9.1 professional, SuSE Enterprise server 9.0, Nterprise Linux Services 1.0, GroupWise for Linux 6.5 Ximian Desktop and many new current offerings. Bring some blank CDs & DVDs and we will burn you a copy at the meeting.

July 29th, 2004 11:00 am

File System Factory

Byron Ware (MCNE, CNI) of The Harding Group http://www.harding-group.com will give a presentation on File System Factory and then walk through a demo of the product. What is it you may ask, well below is a quick synopsis of the product.

Time: 11:00AM - 01:00PM
Date: July 29th 2004
Meeting agenda:
11:00 - 11:30 - Meet & Greet
11:30 - 12:30 - Product Demo, Q&A
12:30 - 12:50 - Open forum (ask any tech questions about any product)
12:50 - 01:00 - Dnug business

Location The Harding Group offices - 1250 E. Copeland Rd, Suite 800
Arlington, TX 76011
Lunch is provided by The Harding Group

RSVP, email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232

What is File System Factory?
File System Factory is a key component of Novell's Secure Identity Management solution set. File System Factory provides new and dynamic levels of automation and management for NetWare file services, which to this point have not been possible. File System Factory enables policy-based lifecycle provisioning and de-provisioning of personal and group storage. As a result, your business can simplify access and management of storage, based on users' identities. Regardless of how you create, move or delete user and group accounts in the directory, Novell File System Factory responds to these events by automatically creating, moving or deleting disk storage on NetWare. With File System Factory, your business can effortlessly keep pace with the storage demands of a busy, large-scale organization and reduce support costs. It supports most popular namespaces-including Long, Macintosh and UNIX namespaces-and also ensures load balancing across traditional NetWare volumes and volumes based on Novell Storage Services and Novell Cluster Services.

The product roadmap includes a future File System Factory for SuSE Linux and Microsoft Active Directory.

File System Factory Web Site (Intro, Admin Guide, Best Practices, Evaluation Download, etc.) http://www.novell.com/products/filesystemfactory/

If you have any questions please email programs@dnug.org or call 940-300-4232

Our library now has copies of Suse Linux 9 and Ximian Desktop. Bring some blank CDs and we will burn you a copy at the meeting.

March 25, 2004 6:00 pm

SUSE 9.0 Linux

Chris Cox, President of the North Texas Linux Users Group and long time Linux user will tell you what you need to know to get Lunix working on your computer.

April 29, 2004 6:00 pm

BrainShare Review

Several members are going and will share some of what they learned. Novell is hosting and will have a SE on hand to answer technical questions.