Our Hands-On Labs

Our Hands-On labs are the big difference with any other event - our speakers create them specifically for this event and they work with all attendees on specially prepared laptops to create the most interactive learn-by-doing experience available.
 
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Our Teaming + Conferencing Labs
 
Lab190 - Installing & Deploying Novell Teaming + Conferencing
Novell Teaming + Conferencing is 'the' collaboration product from Novell. It includes both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration features such as document management, web conferencing, VoIP telephony, wikis, blogs, tasks, calendars, instant messaging and more. In this Hands-On labs you will learn how to install deploy Teaming + Conferencing in an heterogeneous environment and making use of your current infrastructure. You will install the Teaming server, configure authentication against your existing LDAP directory, configure in- and outbound e-mail and configure access to your existing document stores. If time allows we will also discuss the installation of the conferencing server.
This lab will be presented by Marcel Ramaker
 
Lab620 - Teaming + Conferencing for Powerusers - Get More Done with T+C
Your Teaming + Conferencing environment can be a great way to share information in many ways. We have seen many organisations using T+C in different and often surprisingly effective ways. We can all learn from these real-life experiences. In this Hands-On lab you will work with our speakers in a team to evaluate a number of T+C implementations and learn how to use it in an effective, efficient and simple way. This is a strictly non-technical lab, aimed at those wanting to learn more about empowering their own organisations or those of their customers. Subjects like fully optimized workspaces, templates, surveys and workflow examples will be included, all based on a separate lab 630 which is aimed at the technical development of workflows, forms and workspaces.
This lab will be presented by Robin Redgrave & Marcel Ramaker
 
Lab630 - Using Advanced Workflow and Forms in Teaming
In this lab you will learn more about how to use one of the great strengths of your Teaming environment, the advanced workflow capabilities. We will create complex forms and workflows with the advanced workflow module. Workflows will take advantage of the advanced transitions, parallel threads and custom JSPs.
This lab will be presented by Rob Luhrs & Robin Redgrave
 
Lab640 - Development for Teaming using the Web Service Interface
In this lab you will learn more about how to access your Teaming backend using the Web Service Interface, which allows you to integrate your own applications with some very cool integration. More information about this lab will follow soon.
This lab will be presented by Rob Luhrs & Raymond Hulha
 
Lab570 - Get all the Tricks to Integrate your Teaming into GroupWise!
GroupWise and Teaming + Conferencing out-of-the-box already have quite a few integration points, however with GroupWise 8 a number of new possibilities will be added. This lab will show you how to get all your important Teaming Information integrated to GroupWise 8 and vice versa, how to post information from GroupWise quite comfortable into Teaming. You will start from scratch with a blank Teaming Server and GroupWise 8 and will setup all necessary components for a fully integrated solution.
This lab will be presented by Patrick Frontéri & Raymond Hulha & Marcel Ramaker
 
Our ZENworks Labs
 
Lab260 ZENworks 10 - Installation, Configuration, Discovery, and Deployment
In this first Hands-On lab we will start with a review of ZENworks Configuration Management, including architecture, terms, and other things you need to know as a foundation. We will then focus on installing the core ZENworks services. We will configure the required services so that the system will be fully functional. From there we will discover devices that will be managed by the ZENworks infrastructure. You will learn how to target these devices, and automatically deploy and install the ZENworks Adaptive Agent. The work done in this lab will build the foundation for activities that we will do in the second lab 270.
This lab will be presented by Mark Schouls & Laurence Pitt
 
Lab270 ZENworks Core Services
In this second lab we will focus on how you can leverage core services provided by ZENworks. These include software delivery, policy management, inventory, and remote management. Each area of focus will include hands-on labs where you will perform the work yourself. We will dive deeper into the configuration and functionality of the different components of the ZENworks family including Zone settings, software delivery, inventory collection, reporting, license compliance, usage, remote control, and security management. We will spend the bulk of the time demonstrating the different components, and discuss other items such as server and agent architecture.
This lab will be presented by Mark Schouls & Laurence Pitt
 
Lab660 Automated Windows deployment w. ZENworks + ENGL Imaging Toolkit
During this lab you will create and deploy an automated Windows build process using ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and ENGL Imaging Toolkit.  Exercises in this lab will include creation of a Windows XP SP3 universal base image including Mass Storage Drivers, drivers and hotfixes add-on images, Windows multilanguage pack (MUI) images, and customisation of the entire build process using templates and custom scripts.
This lab will be presented by Jamie Glendinning (ENGL) & Roel van Bueren
 
Our OES, SLES and Identity Management Labs
 
Lab250 - Optimizing Servers for GroupWise
Installing GroupWise on either Netware, Linux or Windows has always been a "piece of cake" and the new install routine which is part of GroupWise 8 makes things even easier. However, you should certainly take some extra steps before and after the installation. In this lab our speakers will guide you through the many pre- and post installation tasks which will make your GroupWise system even faster and more reliable than it already is by default. Optimizing webservices, locking down Apache, optimizing the file system, freeing up server memory and much more, it will all help to make GroupWise run even better than before.
This lab will be presented by Tim Heywood
 
Lab050 - Clustering GroupWise on Linux
Ever wanted to know how to set up a GroupWise cluster on top of Novell Cluster Services? In this lab you will build a GroupWise cluster yourself and learn some tips & tricks along the way. Also, get to know the pitfalls when you are building the GroupWise cluster and how to avoid them. NCS is provided with Open Enterprise Server 2, so why not use this marvelous piece of technology to provide high availability to your end-users on top of your favorite system: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.
This lab will be presented by Justin Zandbergen & Patrick Frontéri
 
Lab430 - Choosing, Testing & Configuring Best Linux File System for GroupWise
GroupWise runs as well on Linux as it runs on Netware and Windows servers and perhaps even better. However, almost every project implementing GroupWise on Linux includes a discussion about "the best Linux file system for GroupWise". In this lab our world famous speakers together with the attendees will dive deep into this matter, with the aim to choose, test and configure the Best File System for GroupWise. Make sure to join this important lab, it will worth your while!
This lab will be presented by Sander van Vugt & Svetlin Petrov
 
Lab550 - Using Novell Identity Manager with GroupWise
This lab will teach delegates how to use the Novell Identity Management Driver for GroupWise.  Manipulation of the GroupWise Attributes and other design considerations will be discussed during this session.  Delegates will learn how to create and configure a GroupWise Driver and provision accounts in a GroupWise system using Novell Identity Manager.
This lab will be presented by Cobus Burgers & Ronald Zierikzee
 
Our Partner Labs
 
Lab530 - Become a BlackBerry Poweruser - Get More Done with your BlackBerry
BlackBerry solutions have a lot to offer, often much more than many BlackBerry users have ever known. In this lab you will work with our speakers with these very cool BlackBerry devices and you dive deeper into the BlackBerry applications like GPS, the Vault, notes, calendar and much more. Learn about short-cuts, quick-keys and more and also explore the many ways of managing these devicesusing your BlackBerry Enterprise Server, using the profiles and many other options. As this lab is a non-technical lab, it will be an excellent foundation for improving your own productivity as well as that of other people in your organization using Blackberries.
This lab will be presented by Arnaud Delin & Paul Bellchambers (RIM)
 
Lab520 - GroupWise Integration with SharePoint, CRMs and Third-party Databases
Did you know that Riva provides GroupWise Interoperability with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft CRM, SugarCRM, Salesforce, SageCRM and others?  Attend this exciting hands-on lab on how GroupWise has become the ultimate interoperability platform.  Much more than just email, with Riva, GroupWise goes "Beyond E-mail".  Riva delivers the first transparent, server-side, multi-platform, on-line and off-line, interoperability CRM client.
 
In addition to installing the Riva Integration Server, you will learn how to configure Riva to deliver enterprise, policy-based management of GroupWise folders, address books, rules, proxy access, managed signatures, dynamic distribution lists, secure distribution lists and more.
 
You will install Riva Integration Server and configure synchronisation policies between GroupWise and Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft CRM, SugarCRM, Info@hand and Salesforce.You will configure Riva to provide bi-directional synchronisation of CRM leads, contacts, accounts, appointments,tasks, opportunities, quotes, cases and more from each of these CRMs and collaboration applications. You will see how Riva allows GroupWise to deliver the same integration options for Microsoft SharePoint as is available for Outlook/Exchange - for both client AND portal integration.  You will install and configure Riva GroupWise Web Part Portal Integration for SharePoint to make GroupWise directly available in SharePoint Web Parts.
 
You will learn how to combine Riva with the Novell Open Workgroup Suite and Linux-based Open Source and commercial CRMs to provide the best value and performance of any technology stack.  You will see how Riva Integration Server becomes the anchor to your Novell GroupWise, SuSE Linux and CRM integration solutions  You will experience how Riva allows GroupWise customers to have access to their CRM information anytime and any where they have access GroupWise, on all clients:  Windows, Linux, Mac, WebAccess, Evolution, IMAP, Outlook and  Blackberry Enterprise and GroupWise Mobile Server mobile devices.
This lab will be presented by Aldo Zanoni & Stéphane Zanoni - (both Omni)
 
Lab610 - Archive your GroupWise data - it's more than just Archiving
To archive your GroupWise data is a highly complex issue and not just a matter of archiving emails. This lab will provide you the answers to your archiving questions. Learn more about GWAVA's Archiving Solution 'Retain' and its features like 'stubbing'. You will install and configure Retain on Linux or Windows and learn how to optimize Tomcat and MySQL to get the best performance out of Retain. Raymod Hulha, the Lead Developer  for Retain, will show you how flexible Retain truly is to conquer any archiving need you might have.
This lab will be presented by Raymond Hulha (GWAVA)
 
Lab440 - Top 10 reasons your really need to know about M+Archive
For the 3rd consecutive year, M+Archive is listed in the Magic Quadrant for email archiving solutions and moving. During this Hands-On labs you will learn all about the background of this solution, including Hands-On experiences and a view into the future for e-mail archiving according to Messaging Architects. Subjects that will be addressed are:
- Project experiences
- Single instance storage approach
- How to give your end users access to the archives from the GroupWise 8 client
- What is stubbing and how can this be used in your GroupWise 8 environment
This lab will be presented by Branden Black &y Denis de Wit (both Messaging Architects)
 
Lab450 - Open Beta SKyCOM lab- LIMITED SEATS!!!
During this unique Hands-On lab you will be one of the first to install and deploy the latest SKyCOM beta version and your personal Asterisk SIP server. In this lab you will learn how to setup and install SKyCOM and the open source SIP server Asterisk in order to have a complete VoIP solution. At the end you will have a system which can make outgoing phone calls directly from within your GroupWise mailbox.
 
PLEASE NOTE: the number of seats on this lab is very limited!!!
This lab will be presented by Horst Fuhrmann & Christian Karch & Kirill Lizunov (all SKyPRO)
 
Lab600 - No one knows GroupWise Backup like Tay does
The ability to recover a single message or single mailbox has been the desire for GroupWise Admins since the beginning. Now, Reload delivers on this sought-after functionality. Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery made easy. Learn from GroupWise Guru and Reload developer Tay Kratzer how to back up your GroupWise System and you will know why Reload is called 'The Holy Grail of GroupWise'.
This lab will be presented by Tay Kratzer (GWAVA) & Frank Korpershoek
 
Lab120 - Beyond BlackBerry Enterprise Server Quick Start Edition
In this Hands-On Lab engineers from RIM will show you how BlackBerry Mobile Data System v4.1 (BlackBerry MDS) can be used as an optimized application development framework for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution. It uses the same proven BlackBerry push delivery model and advanced security features used for BlackBerry email to deliver corporate data wirelessly.
This lab will be presented by Rob Clarke & Paul Bellchambers (RIM)
 
Lab650 - Your Integration Story – Is Your Help Desk Really Integrated?
In this lab you will learn how the everything HelpDesk's key integration with GroupWise calendaring and email system, Zenworks and eDirectory can benefit your organization.  You'll also learn how to install and configure a trial that you can take home with you to try in your organization.  The main focus for the lab will be:
  • Leveraging your current Novell investments (GroupWise, eDirectory & ZENworks)
  • Learning how to implement the eHD for multiple departments within an organization, not just IT.
  • Getting the most out of your reports with the GroupLink Reporting Engine!
  • Service Level Agreements - How is your group really doing?
  • Knowledgebase - Instant tools built right into the help desk system!
This lab will be a very good chance to "dig" into the HelpDesk system, and configure it exactly how you want to see it used in your organization... Please join us!
This lab will be presented by Zach Bitner
 
Our Groupwise Labs
 
Lab060 - Advanced Troubleshooting with Novell Support
This is a follow up to the Great Contest to find the best GroupWise Troubleshooting Team in EMEA, which was held during the GroupWise EMEA Summit in both 2006 and 2007. During this Hands-On Lab our Novell World-Wide Support guru's will explain how to repair the broken GroupWise system we used for this contest, a.k.a. they will explain the worst nightmare scenario they have created in depth. You will also spend a lot of time diving into all the other things that could go wrong in your GroupWise system (luckily that doesn't happen too often ;-).
This lab will be presented by Jan-Arie Snijders & Rob van Kooten
 
Lab220 - Freeware Tools for the GroupWise Administrator
These days there are many tools available to manage your GroupWise environment, some really cool "buyware", but also some very nice freeware tools. You can do a lot with ConsoleOne, but not everything what you want. Paul will introduce some handy freeware tools and the attendees will use them in this Hands-On lab. And Gert Lantinga will introduce Vertigo, one of the buyware tools, with some very cool features to manage a lot of GroupWise settings. Good stuff, come check it out!
This lab will be presented by Paul Van der Cruyssen & Gert ter Burg
 
Lab310 - Pimp Your WebAccess  - Customization & Personalization
GroupWise WebAccess is one of the major accesspoints for GroupWise, without installing any client you can easily read and answer mails, check appointments or use proxy to access the mailbox of other users. However, does WebAccess fit into your companies environment? As an example, do we really need to use the American way of notation for a date (mmddyy)? Does your week start on Sunday or Monday? More of real life examples are the base for this lab, which teaches you how to customize Webaccess to fit to your environment:
- Influence the appearance of GroupWise WebAccess (colors, logo, ...) - how to reshape it to fit your corporate identity
- Influence WebAccess to follow localization - for example to have a different "first day of week"
- Influence the behavior of your WebAccess - for example not allowing users to attach files to e-mails - virus protection!
You can do all of this and much more!
This lab will be presented by Diethmar Rimser
 
Lab510 - Digesting the GroupWise 8 Windows Client
Learn how to install the Bonsai Windows client on your users workstations.....and troubleshoot problems when the installation fails. During this session, we'll look into the different ways to install the GroupWise client "out of the box". We will also open up the MSI, and look into that, and learn a bit about changes between this version and the old GW7. We also explore the advantages that SetupIP can offer.
This lab will be presented by Tommy Mikkelsen
 
Lab540 - Boost Your Productivity with GroupWise 8
Did you ever have the feeling that your mailbox was overflowing and your calendar is strangling you? Did you ever miss that one important phone number in your contacts? In this lab we will show you how to manage your mailbox more effectively, so you will get a chance to see which items and events are important. You will drive the business instead of being driven by other people. We will show how to redesign your GroupWise environment to get the right information in at the right time. We will show how to create a manager's desktop (including RSS, web pages, and much more), a secretary's workbench and several other designs. This way you will certainly be able to get more things done in less time.
This lab will be presented by Diethmar Rimser & Erno de Korte
 
Lab560 - Upgrading to GroupWise 8 .a.k.a. Bonsai
In this lab we will perform a GroupWise backend upgrade. Plus, we will take attendee scenarios for rolling out a GroupWise upgrade (servers and clients) and perform some practical tests for these scenarios. During the lab with their help you will upgrade a GroupWise system on Netware, Linux or Windows (or even all three, if time permits). This way you will be fully prepared to upgrade to Bonsai, the next GroupWise release version 8.
This lab will be presented by Svetlin Petrov & Robin Redgrave 
 
Lab580 - GroupWise Mobile Server on Linux or Windows - Does it Really Matter?
This Hands-On Lab is the culmination of many years of experience of the speakers on this subject. It's the ultimate lab about GroupWise Mobile Server, which is now available on Linux as well as on Windows. This session will deliver lots of practical tips and tricks and the opportunity to do a live demo with all that GroupWise has to offer on mobility.
This lab will be presented by Erno de Korte
 
Lab590 - Securing your GroupWise system
This lab will cover those areas which are frequently overlooked in the security of GroupWise environments.  We will implement secure LDAP authentication, enhance the security of GroupWise communication with SSL, and learn how to role out S/MIME to users.
This lab will be presented by Robin Redgrave
 
Lab670 Monitoring GroupWise and SLES with open source monitoring systems
This lab is going to show the options for using Nagios and Cacti for monitoring SLES10 and GroupWise using SNMP and creating graphs for the different monitored parameters and generating alarms when some services(s) is down.
This lab will be presented by Svetlin Petrov & Justin Zandbergen
 
Lab680 Back to the Roots: GroupWise Administration
Our Summits offer a lot of specialized sessions and labs. But sometimes we have just common questions about the administration - GroupWise administration is part of our daily work. Therefore we are offering a "Back to the Roots" lab where we will explain and work on administrative tasks. Here are some examples:
  • Understand Groupwise databases & directories - a perfect preparation for trouble shooting.
  • How to influence the connection and synchronization between eDirectory and GroupWise directory (i.e. move your GW domain to another eDirectory container)
  • Move your GW-System to another directory, volume, server or environment.
This lab will be presented by Diethmar Rimser
 
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