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Server Baseline Document Q2 2012
(April 2012 - June 2012)

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:28-07:00April 3rd, 2012|Baseline, GroupWise 2012, Open Enterprise Server 11, VMWare|

Click Here To Subscribe - We'll Email You When This Baseline Document is Updated Our Baseline Document is a compilation of patches that are considered stable and production ready for the current business quarter. This list outlines the major products which fit into our core expertise, primarily in the Data Center. We generally perform a quarterly Baseline process for all of our customers, and ensure that all the updates listed here are applied and functional. This accomplishes the following: • [...]

OES 11 backup vendor support for NSS volumes

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:28-07:00February 3rd, 2012|Open Enterprise Server 11|

With Open Enterprise Server 11 being released back in December, we're now getting questions about backup vendors support for OES 11 and NSS volumes. Thanks to Joe Marton in the forums for providing a link to OES backup vendors and their support level for OES 2 and OES 11 NSS volumes. http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/partner-products.html

Server Baseline Document Q1 2012
(January 2012 - March 2012)

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:30-07:00January 11th, 2012|Baseline|

Click Here To Subscribe - We'll Email You When This Baseline Document is Updated Our Baseline Document is a compilation of patches that are considered stable and production ready for the current business quarter. This list outlines the major products which fit into our core expertise, primarily in the Data Center. We generally perform a quarterly Baseline process for all of our customers, and ensure that all the updates listed here are applied and functional. This accomplishes the following: • [...]

Novell Chat about OES 11

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:30-07:00January 4th, 2012|Open Enterprise Server 11|

Join Novell for their free chat about OES 11! As you may be aware, Novell released OES 11 back on December 13, 2011. You might be interested to know that Novell is using their Novell Community Chats on January 10 to discuss OES 11. Attending this free webinar would be a good idea for anyone who currently has OES or is considering deploying OES 11.

Novell Releases OES 11!

By Marvin Huffaker|2012-01-20T09:58:23-07:00December 13th, 2011|Open Enterprise Server 11|

Novell has released Open Enterprise Server 11! A few things we're excited about for OES 11: Runs on SLES 11 SP1 Certified for VMware Improved patching is faster and easier SLES 11 includes Green IT innovations for power savings Faster release cycles, including a feature pack release later this year Also a few things you should know about OES 11: OES 11 requires SLES 11 SP1 x86_64. 32-bit is no longer supported. We can help migrate any 32-bit servers to [...]

Novell Client 2 SP2 Released

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:31-07:00December 5th, 2011|Uncategorized|

Novell has released Novell Client 2 SP2 for Windows 7, Vista, 2008, and 2008 R2. It supports NetWare, OES 2, and OES 11. We expect this is foreshadowing for the release of OES 11 on SLES 11. Here is the readme for more details.

Keeping up-to-date with Novell news

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:31-07:00November 21st, 2011|eDirectory, GroupWise, GroupWise 2012, Technical|

Ever feel like you are a little out of the loop on what is going on with Novell? There are a couple of webinars I recommend to keep you updated on new products and features. The first is the Novell Community Chats. This is a relatively new webinar series, but it is put on by Novell. We're very excited about an upcoming event on Dec 13 about GroupWise 2012. We're encouraging all our GroupWise customers to attend this event to [...]

Monitor and Restart eDirectory on Linux

By Marvin Huffaker|2016-12-22T14:36:31-07:00November 21st, 2011|eDirectory|

I'm currently working on an OES2 project involving Domain Services for Windows, and we're having some problems with the ndsd process (eDirectory) crashing. It's very random, and while we are trying to get a coredump for analysis, we are unable to pinpoint the offending process. Furthermore, we're having trouble obtaining a coredump with enough detail to find the exact problem. So we are unable to duplicate at will, and when it does crash, we have very little information to help [...]

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