Category: Novell

Upgrade to OES2 SP1 tutorial

There is a great tutorial on Novell Coolsolution how to upgrade to OES2 SP1. Here is the index. Preparing your current environment. Installation of OES2 SP1 Linux to a new server Securing the new OES2 SP1 Linux server. Data migration. DHCP migration. Printer migration. DNS migration. ZENWorks Desktop Management v7 SP1 – Optional. RSYNC modification […]

Friday February 20th, 2009 in Novell | 4 Comments »

The year of ActiveSync

On Coolsolutions there is a post that clearly announces that Groupwise will support active sync in the year 2009. I think this is a great step forward. If you like it or not. ActiveSync is becoming a standard for mobile device to sync your corporate email and agenda. Now a day’s we Groupwise users have […]

Friday February 20th, 2009 in Novell | No Comments »

Groupwise 8 HotPatch 1

I don’t know why but I did not post that Novell released on januari 30 HotPatch 1 for Groupwise 8. Below a summary what is solved in this release: 458467 Crashing in Linux when doing some things with an IMAP account connected to a GW mailbox through IMAP 463961 Day String in Mail Item is […]

Wednesday February 18th, 2009 in Novell | No Comments »

Alignment of a NSS volume in Vmware ESX

As you all probely know, It’s wise to align a filesystem partion in Vmware NSS. If you look at the figures below, you can see that it’s possible that if you don’t align a filesystem ESX has to read 3 block to get 1 block of data. Here a screenshot of the ESX_partition_align.pdf from Vmware […]

Tuesday February 17th, 2009 in Novell | 20 Comments »

Server reply time-out with disable login on OES 2

We planned to reinstall a eDirectory server at a customers site. So the day before we gave a disable login so nobody would be authenticated to this server when I tried to remove it. When I arrived in the morning some people where getting the following error: server failed to response in an excessible amount […]

Friday February 6th, 2009 in Novell | No Comments »