NEW! Certified Novell ZENworks Administartor

Novell introduces the Certified Novell ZENworks Administrator (CZNA) available from november 2009. The CZNA will include the N3098 and N8004.

The are the test objectives:
1. Describe ZENworks Configuration Management System
2. Describe the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Architecture
3. Describe ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Services
4. Review Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Requirements
5. Perform a Standard Installation of ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
6. Access ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Tools
7. Configure User Sources
8. Describe the Registration Process
9. Modify the Device Naming Template Used During Registration
10. Discover Network Devices
11. Deploy the ZENworks Adaptive Agent
12. Describe ZENworks Remote Management
13. Set Up Remote Management
14. Manage Remote Sessions
15. Describe ZENworks Remote Management Security Issues
16. Describe and Use ZENworks Software Packaging
17. Describe the Basic Concepts of Bundling
18. Create Bundles
19. Configure Action Sets and Actions
20. Manage Bundles
21. Manage Bundles Using the ZENworks Adaptive Agent
22. Describe ZENworks Configuration Management Policies
23. Create Policies
24. Manage Policies
25. Manage Policy Groups
26. Manage Folders
27. Describe Preboot Services
28. Set Up Preboot Services and Imaging
29. Configure and Use Imaging
30. Describe Inventory Services
31. Scan Managed Devices
32. Scan Inventory-Only Devices
33. Scan Demographic Data
34. Manage and Run Asset Inventory Reports
35. Evaluate Your Knowledge of ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Terms and Concepts
36. Describe the Service Oriented Architecture
37. Implement System Update
38. Implement Services Oriented Architecture Best Practices
39. Perform Pre-Migration Tasks
40. Migrate Data from ZENworks Desktop Management to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
41. Implement Migration Best Practices
42. Describe the Registration Process
43. Describe Registration Methods
44. Configure Zone Registration Settings
45. Manage Registration from the Command Line
46. Implement Registration Best Practices
47. Implement Device Discovery Using CSV Files
48. Evaluate Your Knowledge of Bundle Components and Terms
49. Describe How Bundles Work
50. Describe How Microsoft Installer Works
51. Evaluate Your Fundamental Policy Knowledge
52. Describe How Policies Work
53. Describe Administrative Template Files
54. Secure Your Workstations with Policies
55. Implement Policies Using the zman Command
56. Implement Policy Best Practices
57. Customize Inventory
58. Configure Local Products
59. Create Custom Reports
60. Modify Preboot Services
61. Configure Image Safe Data
62. Describe Patch Management
63. Configure Patch Management
64. Describe ZENworks Asset Management 10
65. Implement Software Usage Reports
66. Establish Mailbox Security

You can take a ‘normal’ test at Pearson VUE

VMware vSphere training

This week, for the first time, I gave a course about managing en configuring a VMware vSphere enviroment.
Almost every aspect of vSphere was addressed in this course, oa:

• vCenter (Linked Mode)
• Distributed Switches
• Fault Tolerance
• VMotion
• High Availability
• Dynamic Resource Scheduler
• Private VLAN’s
• Storage Plugin (including multipath for ISCSI)
• Host Profiles
• Snapshots
• Template and Clones

I was a bit nervous (not much because I’m not the guy who gets nervous easily) because I developed this course myself. It took almost 3 week in September to developed this course. So, why not giving it in November I hear you think ;-). Simple I was on my honey moon that month.

The course went very well, average grade was a 8.

I must say that if you put much effort something like developing a course and the course goes smoothly, this gives you lots of pleasure.

So, if you are Dutch or from Belgium and you want to follow a nice pratical VMware vSphere course you can sing up here.

OES2 SP2 upgrade guide

For the last 3 weeks, I’m giving training through the country, so I haven’t been able to write any post because lack of time.

During a break I was looking at the Coolsolution site of Novel and read a real nice upgrade guide to OES2 SP2 witch can be use full. So I thought to post it out here for you guys and for my own documentation.

VMware View 4.0 released

Yesterday VMware released View 4.0 with the new PC-over-IP protocol who will replace the RDP protocol for View.

View will run on vSphere the latest version of the ESX range. Two versions will be availible, View Enterprise Edition who is going to cost 150 dollar per user, and View 4 Premier Edition who is will cost 25o dollar per user.
The Enterprise version contains vSphere, vCenter and the View Manager. The Premier edition has the View Composer (for Linked Clones) en ThinApp4 (for application virtualization) extra.

For better performance VMware introduced the PC-over-IP protocol from Teradici. VMware ported this hardware protocol to a software protocol. Thanks to this protocol multimedia support is much better.

VMware say’s View 4 is interesting for companies who want to use Windows 7 in there environment. In my option running View on vSphere is also a a pro.
VMware annouced that they will be working together with Cisco, Dell, EMC en HP for hardware for View.

You can read all the stuff  I wrote on View over here.

Brainshare Europe 2010 in Amsterdam?

For now it’s just a rumor, but the word is that there will be a a Brainshare Europe edition and that the city will be Amsterdam!
The date will be 18 until 21 of may 2010. The exception is that in the next few weeks Novell will announce this.

In the past Brainshare Europe was not as interesting as Brainshare in Salt Lake City. The session in Salt Lake where just better than in Europe.
But Novell reorganized the concept of Brainshare as a result of less intressed of people in Brainshare. Als you all will know Brainshare in 2009 was cancelled.

Because I’m from Holland I will certainly admit to Brainshare Europe is it’s in Amsterdam! What about you?