Domain Services for Windows streamlines user and group management and simplifies infrastructure complexity in mixed environments. This technology allows Microsoft Windows users to access OES services using native Windows and Active Directory protocols. By allowing eDirectory servers running on Open Enterprise Server to behave as if they were Active Directory servers, this technology enables companies with both directory services deployments to achieve better coexistence between the two platforms. Users can work in a pure Windows desktop environment and still take advantage of some Open Enterprise Server back-end services and technology, without the need for a Novell Client on the desktop.

Build an appliance -  or your own custom Linux distro -  with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart's content, and share it with the world! Suse Lunix Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) includes SUSE Studio, a simple and fast appliance builder. It provides an easy to use, web-based user interface and will run in your browser without other needed software. One great feature is the SUSE Studio Testdrive. You can boot, configure and test your appliance in a browser window without download.

In the last few years, there's been an enormous increase in the use of mobile phones, as well as an ever-growing number of people using PDA’s. Novell and the partners have delivered GroupWise mobility solutions for many years and will continue to do so in the future. More and more of your users will get devices that need to be connected somehow, so your organization should be prepared and ahead of the crowd. In this session the latest developments and versions will be presented.

This session introduces you to GroupWise Server Migration Utility. You'll learn how to use it to migrate your GroupWise system - post offices and Post Office Agents, domains and Message Transfer Agents, along with Internet Agents and WebAccess to Linux. A live demo will show a GroupWise migration from Windows or NetWare (attendees choice) to Novell Open Enterprise Server v2 Linux (the next version of OES).

GroupWise 8 offers many new features for e-mail, calendaring, task and contact management and obviously millions of end-users will benefit from these improvements. There however also many new important features for power-user, as many of these improvements have been based on their feedback.

GroupWise is a great for collaboration, as we will show in this session. This session will provide many interesting details on how to optimize the usage of GroupWise and is based on the book "Get Things Done" from David Allen. You will see how the new features of GroupWise 8 fit in nicely with what David Allen describes, actually GroupWise seems to be "tailor-made" for "Getting Things Done"!

Real-time communication, authoring and social messaging - for you, your enterprise...well, anyone! With Novell Pulse you will:

• Break down barriers to innovation. Connect with people and ideas and get work done.
• Create, share and edit documents in real-time—together.
• Have nothing to deploy. Just use your browser, sign-up and get going.

Cloud computing is revolutionizing IT. How can your business benefit? And how will you need to manage your IT resources differently? As one of the world's leading infrastructure software vendors, Novell offers unparalleled technology to help organizations increase revenue, lower costs and mitigate risk by deploying workloads to public and private clouds as well as traditional data centers. Whether you are a traditional enterprise, independent software vendor, or cloud service provider, Novell can help you manage, secure, deploy to, collaborate in, and access the cloud.

As the primary output of employee creativity, unstructured data is the fastest growing data-type in organizations, creating storage management challenges that increase IT costs and limit business profitability. Novell File Management Suite addresses these challenges through identity-driven storage management that turns file system chaos into organized efficiency. By merging Novell file storage expertise with market-leading Novell identity technologies, File Management Suite offers the most advanced, business-oriented file storage solution available today. It enables you to better track and understand storage growth, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, save money in the administration and procurement of storage resources, and unlock the hidden value in your data.

• An open, enterprise-ready architecture for bringing together disparate collaboration systems, tools and technologies
• Enterprise-level security, compliance and management applied to converging traditional and innovative next-generation collaboration environments

Dealing with multiple sources of identities is time consuming. Most applications, databases and directories come with their own identity store, leading to multiple points of administration for you and a fragmented user experience for your end-users.

To truly capitalize on all the benefits of automated access governance, a governance solution must be designed and deployed correctly. Novell and their partners can provide valuable expertise when it comes to managing access to your resources. In a complex enterprise, governing access to information resources while ensuring compliance can be challenging. Meet overwhelming regulatory requirements with help from Novell to move organizations from manual, error-prone processes to a fully automated and audit-ready access governance solution.

Having trouble managing the security of your UNIX and Linux systems? Need to be able to lock down access, even for your superusers, and prove it? Novell can help, with a unique technology that simplifies management, tracking and auditing chores. Novell Privileged User Manager limits corporate susceptibility to unauthorized transactions and information access by helping you rapidly deploy superuser management and tracking across all UNIX and Linux environments. The result: you can reduce the cost, complexity and risk associated with managing superusers across the enterprise.

Whether it's to comply with PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA and other regulations, or to more effectively manage security requirements, most organizations require the ability to collect, store and manage log data from all their different systems and applications. Log management provides a simple-to-implement solution that addresses data retention needs in a way that allows organizations to inexpensively store and manage large amounts of log data. Unfortunately, the majority of the log management solutions available on the market have serious, inherent deficiencies. Many log management tools are too complex and costly, and they hinder an organization’s ability to achieve compliance. In this session you will learn how Novell's Sentinel Log Manager allows organizations to:

• Simplify compliance efforts
• Reduce deployment and management costs
• Leverage existing hardware investments
• Build a scalable compliance and security foundation that grows with their needs