• 4sysops - Why is the Vista adoption so slow?
  Only 2% of enterprises have deployed, and 38% have no plans.
  (tags: Enterprise Deployment )
• Novell SecureLogin Adds Support for Windows Vista
  The title says it all.
  (tags: Compatibility Novell )

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• Novell Client for Windows Vista - Update!
  The Novel client for Vista is finally available.
  (tags: Novell Software Compatibility )
• PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista
  He says after tweaking and optimizing for nine months he’s to frustrated over what still doesn’t work.
  (tags: Review )

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Novell yesterday added a TID document related to it’s iPrint service, and Windows Vista. They say “Novell recognizes the urgency to provide an iPrint client that installs on the Vista operating system. Releasing an iPrint client for Vista has been, and continues to be, a top priority for Novell.” Though they recognize this urgency, and Vista has been available in it’s final format for six months now, the iPrint client is still under development, and they’re not estimating a release time. They do, however, have a workaround. Keep reading →

environment
Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5

situation

Vista (Business, Ultimate and Enterprise, 32 & 64 bit) has a new feature called “User Account Control” (UAC) which is designed to prevent unauthorized changes to the computer. This is controlled by an option in the User Accounts applet of the Control Panel and defaults to on.

The most noticable action of this feature is the presentation of a confirmation dialog when accessing virtually any applet from the Control Panel. The apparent function that is effecting us is that it mostly locks down the Program Files (PF)directory and everything under it. While Services seem to have no problem writing to the PF directory structure ,things run by the user,
regardless that the user is an Admin, can’t.

This results in the Knowledgebase files (.kb) not being updated in the Filestore by a merge, Collection Option Set .kb files not being saved when saved within the ZAM Manager, and the inability to create an OPTIONS.TXT file in our Collection Client \bin directory to control the Collector.

environment
Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
situation
The Win32 collector will fail to complete and no data about the workstation will be loaded into the database. If the Collection client is run in diagnostic mode the below error will be seen in in the client’s trace log:

11/06/06 11:22:52 ReaperTestList::ExecAllTests - Running test 410 (0×019A) - 11/06/06 11:22:52 ReaperTestList::ExecAllTests - Test 410 (0×019A) Failed - 11/06/06 11:22:52 Error - s:3 c:CRegistryKey m:EnumerateKey 1:HKEY_DYN_DATA 2: 3: 4: 11/06/06 11:22:52 ReaperTestList::ExecAllTests - Running test 420 (0×01A4) -

environment
Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
situation
The Windows collector is reporting Windows Vista Ultimate Edition x64 as Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center

environment
Novell iChain 2.3 Service Pack 4
Novell iChain 2.3 Interim Release 4a
Novell iManager 2.6 on NetWare
Novell Remote Manager
Novell NetWare 6.5 Administration Server
Apache HTTP Server 2.XX on NetWare 6.5
GroupWise WebAccess
Novell BorderManager 3.8 SSL Authentication

situation
SSL connections with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) on Microsoft Windows Vista RC2 will fail with:

• SSL enabled web services on Novell NetWare 6.5 and Novell NetWare 6.0
• Novell iChain 2.3 SSL enabled authentication pages and accelerator

SSL services on OES Linux (OpenSSL based) do not have this problem

Internet Explorer Version 7 on Windows XP does no have this problem as TLS 1.0 is not enabled as default security setting

environment
Novell ZENworks 7.5 Asset Management - ZAM7.5
situation
ZAM install is on a Vista x64 system does not recognize Microsoft Virtual Server 2005/SR2 as being installed.