Groupwise 8.0 SP1 HP1 avaliable

Just a quick post:

Novell Release HP1 for Groupwise 8.0 SP1.

You can download the files at http://download.novell.com

Here are changes:

Admin

510213 – DBCopy -i switch is not working properly.
553048 – Properties of distribution lists are not visible using German 8.01 snap-ins
555339 – Admin API Issue – New return values added for get_AddressFormat and get_AllowedAddressFormat.
559998 – ConsoleOne crashes on SLES 11 when the GWIA and WebAccess gateways object properties are selected.
560338 – Users created by IDM Driver do not replicate to primary domain

Calendar Publisher

554220 – Calendar Publishing will not install if the ip address of the server is a 10.x.x.x address
552375 – Published calendar shows appointments both 1 hour and 2 hours ahead
554311 – Published calendar does not show Notes

Linux Client

552364 – Having multiple subscribed Ical Calendars will not load all. Only 1 or 2 will load.
552392 – Subscribed Calendars are not working in Linux & Mac
554231 – GWCheck script is still looking for GW client JRE in the old “client/jre” to “client/java” dir

Mac Client

554672 – GWCheck will not run on Mac 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
562263 – Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6 breaks + click functionality in GW 8.0.1

Windows Client

540061 – Client crashes intermittently in gwxplt1.dll
550436 – WIP folder shows that there are messages in there when the folder is empty
550445 – WIP count erroneously increment or reduce the count until the poll comes through and fixes it.
552198 – Crash in the client engine
552358 – Not all of the users mail is downloading to caching.
552360 – Password change not saving with Notify running with LDAP Authentication.
552367 – Dialog box focus problem when opening Excel or Word documents.
552372 – GetIntegrationState error with GW8 SP1
552373 – In the calendar view, the option for MORE on categories is missing
553038 – Refresh problem when resolving a stub
553044 – Client crashes while searching Calender items
554206 – Sequence number is incorrect on rule delegation of appointments
554221 – Can not save documents in any library other then user’s default library
554224 – Compose control uses ATL interface that has security vulnerability
554229 – 9202 Bad Parameter errors when opening HTML messages or attachments
554346 – Plain text view moves carriage returns around in signatures
554351 – Send to | Mail Recipient deletes the origional file from the hard drive
554353 – Crash using ItemSaveInfo token
554356 – Ical VEVENT ending with a SEQUENCE property will not import properly
554602 – Using non-english spell check causes client to crash
554639 – Creating a new group in Online mode from Contacts folder and selecting users from SAB will save an empty group
555103 – Forwarding on an embedded item and then changing the “Send User” to a Proxy user will crash the client
555105 – HTML email print as text when using File | Print if the email has an attachment
555494 – The Hours strip in the Appointment area of Calendar doesn’t include the am/pm by the hour
556342 – Crash cutting and pasting from the header control
556345 – Spell checker doesn’t recognize quote message
556350 – Crash occurs when printing multiple attachments while proxied.
556362 – Close item event is not generated
556365 – “Error occurs when signing message.” while trying to sign and encrypt the mail
556376 – Problem resolving the stubs when the account name contains German characters
556381 – Create registry key to use older version of RTF editor
557356 – Reply problem when client sends out user addresses with U.P.D format when cutting and pasting names
557478 – Client crashes with Entrust certificates
557487 – Modifying information in busy search not working
558099 – LDAP password change generates D019, but still changes the password
558217 – Speller is crashing in Chinese T and S , Japanese, Hebrew
559761 – Buffer overrun in autosave
559762 – Custom fields will not import properly from a 7.0x export
559763 – Random Crashes on a Windows XP SP3
559939 – Opening the properties of a user of a distribution list in the addressbook results in an error
559945 – Unable to add a user in a group within PAB if addressing is set to F.L or L.F.
561017 – A number of Find results windows are diplayed when do a Find by “In all folder” option
561720 – Crash trying to create a group
566828 – Reply tokens fail
568910 – Choosing to “Add to Frequent Contacts ” address book from new email with user in System Address Book but not in Frequent Contact will crash

Document Viewer Agent (DVA)

552203 – Webconsole will not enable for document viewer agent
552384 – GWDVA taking 100% CPU Utilization

Engine

552388 – Problem with syncing caching mailbox
554217 – Failed LDAP password change can set connection into a bad state
556357 – CPU hog abend in Server.nlm

GroupWise High Availability Agent (GWHA)

552357 – GWHA starts multiple instances of MTA/POA when healthy agents are already running

GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA)

551173 – IMAP: attachment name changed if contains Polish characters
551179 – Message file will not get processed through gwia
552363 – POP threads hanging
554214 – GWIA abend running process RecvConvert Process
554216 – ICal files show in client as mail message
554225 – IMAP high CPU when downloading mail that includes invalid recipients
556379 – Crash on corrupt message
559297 – Core during IMAP write buffer cleanup
560546 – Users in DL not showing up in TO: field, only one user does

GWCheck

554249 – GWCheck gives error 0xDF0A on analyze/fix specific library

GWTSA

552394 – GWTSAFS.NLM abends the server, when running the Backupexec Agent

Install

555962 – Installation fails when eDir Admin users context contain Country & Location
561581 – Installation fails when admin user does not exist in same container as the domain object

Message Transfer Agent (MTA)

552370 – Abend on certain messages
553432 – MTA not doing a DNS refresh when a link is down
554627 – MTA not doing a DNS refresh when a link is down (additional code needed)
555112 – MTA fails to start http port if it is marked bind exclusive

Post Office Agent (POA)

538703 – POA running on Windows crash
542866 – POA running IMAP on Windows crash
551232 – SOAP thread gets blocked when trying to sync an addressbook entry
551454 – Crash on Windows 2003 Server
552374 – 820A error on POA
552380 – SOAP Abend
552381 – POA performance issues
552382 – GWDCA on Linux crash
552390 – Current Physical Connections exceed the Maximum Physical connections
552393 – CloseScreen called with a screen that is still being used – Cluster timing issue
553033 – SOAP callback restarts protected memory
554748 – A601 error when opening cocuments – Not a valid error
555086 – POA Physical Connections is exceeding maximum allowed
557873 – POA Crash When Users Proxy Using Evolution Client
558169 – SOAP core in NgwItem::gwtAttachment
558174 – POA crashes if started up before the MTA
559948 – GWPOA abend on GWSOAP process
564470 – High utilization/Server abends on SOAP threads
567556 – POA crash

Protocol

507827 – Evolution: Reports that a getQuickMessage id is incorrectly formatted
550592 – Add logic to get an embedded item as a mime
551182 – A space in a domain name causes EA01 error streaming attachments during GMS sync
552371 – Memory leak in converting to unicode strings
552386 – Passing an empty view in getItemRequest will not return the default view
552387 – A recurrent request via WS using an rrule w/o an until date will fail
552577 – Can’t send large emails from a device
552585 – Performance problem getting items
554207 – IMAP rfc822.size command performance enhancement for emails with an existing mime.822 attachment
554211 – IMAP folder NoSelect flag missing
554213 – Incomplete IMAP SEARCH response on empty folders
554227 – IMAP APPEND command is not indexing the x-fields
554349 – SOAP doesn’t return the folder tree
555108 – XML parsing exception in getting distribution list members
555153 – GetFolderList returns back the Display Settings
556487 – getItemsRequest on a recurrent item will fail if an “until” date is present
556682 – SOAP Thread in POA abended the server
559672 – Subject searches should be substring searches, not word match searches
559734 – Can’t create a folder under the mailbox

SDK

556352 – Lose message body using AddExistingItem
556609 – Name completion ActiveX truncating characters
559209 – Crash when updating contact fields
559797 – Attachment.add fails on GW8

WebAccess

552362 – Core in gwinter
552376 – Replies to some messages using Safari browser sends blank message body
553028 – Abend in GWINTER
554421 – Abend in Gwinter -2
555116 – Cores in gwinter
557079 – Webaccess Agent Core -2
557352 – Work In Progress always prompts with “you have unsaved messages”
559682 – Double clicking to view mail in webaccess opens two windows instead of one

Brainshare Amsterdam

A couple of months ago I blogged that Brainshare was comming to Amsterdam.

Now, Novell has launched the Novell Brainshare Amsterdam website where you can find a lot (and in the future more) information about this event.
The date for Brainshare is from 18-21 may 2010 and the location is the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam.
The early birth price is at EUR 695,- and will soon be availible (a little birth told me at the end of January). Early birth will end at 16 april 2010.

Last monday I was at Novell in Utrecht for Novellcongres.nl and I spoke to a Novell employee about Brainshare.
She told me that Novell expects around 750 people and that Amsterdam has been chosen as a location because of Schiphol Airport and that Novell expect the most visitors from the UK, Denmark, Germany and of course Holland!

Rumor is also that at Brainshare Salt Lake ZENworks Configuration Management 11 beta 1 will be launched and at Brainshare Amsterdam beta 2! I’m curious to see that the improvements will be.

Installing a Novell SUSE Subscription Management Tool (SMT) Server

Before we start installing SMT we have to have to following:

• A SLES 11 server
• The media for SMT SLE11 (downloaded here). This is a ISO file, in this document we assume we have this ISO in /tmp

Step 1 Installing SMT

1. In Yast goto Software | Add-On Products
2. Click on Add and choose the media where you want to install form. In our case this is a ISO file in /tmp
3. Accept the License Agreement and proceed with the installation

Step 2 Configuration Wizard
In this section where going to configure the settings for SMT. Make sure you now the following :

• NCC Mirroring Credentials (you can find these on the Customer Portal from Novell)
• NCC email address (this one you must know ;-))

So now the configuration.

1. Select Enable Subscription Management Tool Service (SMT)
2. Select Open Port in Firewall (if you use the firewall on your SLES 11 host)
3. Provide the NCC Mirroring Credentials (you can test them by clicking on the Test button (Duh!))
4. Provide the NCC E-mail Used for Registration
5. If you want you can give another (generic) URL for your SMT server. This URL is used by all your other servers. In my case this is instsrv01.wilmsen.lan
6. Click on Next
7. Provide a Database Password for the SMT user
8. Click on Add to provide a E-mail address where the reports are send to
9. Click on Next
10. If you haven’t registered this server in NCC, you can this now by selecting Register in Novell Customer Center and click on Next. If you have done this before the installation of SMT you can skip this step.
11. After this the setting are written to the configuration and you can continue to select for witch products you want to download updates.

Step 3 Select product to download updates for

1. Start Yast2 and select SMT Server Management
2. Select the products where you want to download updates for and click on Toggle Mirroring
3. Select OK
4. To kick of a manual mirror open a terminal and give the command smt-mirror. The patches will be downloaded in /srv/www/htdocs/

Step 4 Enabling SSL for Apache
We want to download patches to a secure channel. Therefor we have to enable SSL for our webserver (Apache).

1. In Yast2 select HTTP Server
2. If this is the first time, go through the wizard and click Finish. After this select HTTP server again
3. Go to the Server Modules tab and find under the section Name SSL
4. Click on Toggle Status and click Finish

Step 5 Registering Server to SMT
In this step we are going to register (other) server to our SMT server.

1. You can register a client by using the clientSetup4SMT.sh script. You can download this script from your SMT server.
   You can use wget to download the script: wget http://servername/repo/tools/clientSetup4SMT.sh
2. Make the script executable: chmod +x clientSetup4SMT.sh
3. Start the script: ./clientSetup4SMT.sh
4. You’re asked to accept the SSL certificate. Give a Y to accept
5. Press Y to register this server to your SMT server

Now your server is registered on you SMT server. Is you look in Yast in your software repositories you will see there is a extra channel.

Step 6 Preform a onetime manual download of patches

By default a cron job is added in /etc/cron.d so patches are download daily. If you don’t want this remove the job. You can wait a day before the patches are downloaded or you can give the command smt-mirror to do a manual download.

That’s all!

Poll for a session on Brainshare EMEA and novellcongres.nl

As some of you probably know, I’m very interested in the combination of OES2 on VMware ESX or vSphere.Last may I did 2 session at the novellcongres.nl about creating a SLES10 template for VMware ESX and the performance of NSS on VMFS.
Especially the last session was well visited.

Next year, and that is in a couple of weeks from now, there in another novellconges.nl and of course Brainshare EMEA in Amsterdam.

I diffidently will do a session a novellcongres.nl but I’m thinking about doing that same session (of maybe a little bit  adjusted) on Brainshare EMEA. The subject will be OES2 on VMware vSphere best implementation.

Thinking about this idea, I’m wondering how you guy’s thinks about this subject? If you would go to one of these events, would you go this session?
I’m very interested in your opinion, so let me know! leave a replay!

Default X11 forwarding with ssh

Probably everybody knows what the function of ssh is and what you can do with it.

If you have a server in a controlled room, normally it’s running in runlevel 3 (this is full multi user mode with networking without X Windows). If you want to make changes to the system through Yast for example, you could go to the control room, power on the monitor and start X by giving the command startx, make your changes and close X.

Another solution is to make a remote connection through ssh (ssh user@servername) and start Yast. Normally this is pure text mode. So if you start yast2 (graphical Yast) the normal yast is started because the graphical output cannot be transferred through the ssh connection.
It’s possible to forward the X output through the ssh connection by giving the option -X (ssh user@servername -X).

If you want the X forwarding by default you can arrange this in the configuration file for ssh in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Remove the # before ForwardX11 and change the no to yes.

Now the X forwarding option is always enabled by default.