Overview of the Hands-On Labs

Here are some of the advantages of the Hands-On labs at the Regional Summits:

These flags indicated at which Regional Summit each Hands-On lab can be presented.
Please note that the selection of labs on each separate Summit page
shows the most current and up-to-date selection for that event.

Novell Teaming + Conferencing is the new collaboration product from Novell. It includes both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration features such as document management, web conferencing, VoIP telephony, wikis, blogs, tasks, calendars and instant messaging. This session will demonstrate the installation Novell Teaming + Conferencing in all its aspects.
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Novell Teaming + Conferencing is the new collaboration product from Novell. It includes both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration features such as document management, web conferencing, VoIP telephony, wikis, blogs, tasks, calendars and instant messaging. Novell Teaming is a very flexible application. For many organizations one of the key-elements of Novell Teaming + Conferencing will certainly be the workflow module, which ties into other modules like document management. The speakers will show you how to get the most of of these modules, so you can get up to speed easily when back in your office.
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Novell Teaming + Conferencing offers a big stack of tools to accelerate your organizational processes in many ways. In this lab the speakers will demonstrate how in an iterative process you can grow from your existing way of work into a much smoother team-oriented organizational model.
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Novell Teaming + Conferencing is the new collaboration product from Novell. It includes both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration features such as document management, web conferencing, VoIP telephony, wikis, blogs, tasks, calendars and instant messaging. This session will focus on how to administer Novell Teaming + Conferencing.
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Find out how to create an integration between Novell Teaming & Conferencing and the GroupWise Document Management System using SOAP. This lab will demonstrate the significant work which has been done to integrate GroupWise DMS on the Linux Desktop with Teaming and Conferencing. A class to teach people to create their own portlets to interface into teaming and conferencing using SOAP will really add significant value to the GroupWise Summit.
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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 day will build the foundation for activities that we will do in the second lab 270.
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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.
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In lab we will show how the Linux version of Open Enterprise Server version 2 can be used to virtualize almost ever operating system, server and service. The latest version will be used, with a lot of new features and many tips and tricks based on years of experience will be shared.
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Nowadays almost every organization is very dependent on a reliable storage solution and the good news is that the combined strength of cluster services with a Storage Area Network will indeed be able to deliver stable and always available storage. Learn our experts on how to install and configure this, sharing a wealth of real-life experience.
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Can a help desk solution really increase your IT productivity? Can it transform your users from tech dependant to self-sufficient? Can it produce the critical reports you need? How do you justify a help desk purchase when the budget is already tight? How can you extend service desk functionality to other departments in your organization?

Learn from Zach Bitner, Partner Relationship Manager for GroupLink. He'll answer these questions and talk about how organizations like yours have benefited from using an everything HelpDesk™ solution and what results you should expect from your service desk solution.

GroupLink Corporation's everything HelpDesk is a complete, web based, user-friendly help desk solution utilizing ITIL best practices. Government, education, healthcare, financial services, and other I.T. professionals use everything HelpDesk to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and enable powerful integration with Novell technologies (OES, eDirectory, GroupWise, ZENworks, Linux).
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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.
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GroupWise Bonsai will offer so much more with regards to DMS, shared folders, shared displays, shared contacts and shared calendars. This lab will show you how to build business use cases within a GroupWise framework. During this lab a GroupWise Bonsai Beta will be used to demonstrate the many new things that one can use to build this collaborative framework that will represent many business processes within an organisation.
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GroupWise is the richest Integrated Collaboration Environment (ICE) in the market and the new Bonsai release will add even more functionality. Based on the famous book from David Allen "Getting Things Done" Diethmar and Erno will guide you thru the rich world of GroupWise.
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So you thought that you need to install it on OES to cluster GroupWise? Wrong! SUSE Linux Enterprise Server uses Heartbeat, currently the most popular and versatile clustering solution available and you can cluster GroupWise perfectly with it. It is even fully supported by Novell. In this session Sander and Svetlin will show you all you have to do to cluster GroupWise on Heartbeat. You'll learn how to set up a Heartbeat Cluster itself and next, how to integrate GroupWise into that.
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One of our thoughts for this years Summit was: "Shall we offer a Outlook workshop?" and then "Maybe even more - an Outlook/Exchange workshop?" We (the GroupWiseR community) are always looking for arguments in the discussion "Why use GroupWise instead of Exchange?". So now we open the door to show the other side. Not just presenting stuff, let's really dive in deep into Outlook and Exchange. Statement from the speaker: "It is always good to know both sides. And probably it is a good way to get the real arguments."
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In this lab the speakers will show you how to get much more information from eDirectory into your GroupWise system, for example thru admin defined fields. This lab will also cover LDAP authentication, which can also be combined with smartcards thru Novell's Modular Authentication System (NMAS).
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This Hands-On Lab is the cumulation of many years of experience of both Danita Zanr and St phane Bullou. It's the ultimate lab about GroupWise Mobile Server, which will soon be available on Linux as well. 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.
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Both speakers have many years of experience with upgrading GroupWise systems all over the world. In this Hands-On Lab they will present several scenarios, do's and don'ts. 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, as soon as it becomes available.
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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 tools during this lab and the attendees will use them in this Hands-On lab. Really cool stuff, come check it out!
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This session will demonstrate the installation of the upcoming OES Linux 2 and the upcoming next version of GroupWise with code name Bonsai. The main goal of the session is to show how fast and easy is the installation of GroupWise on Linux and to emphasize on the new functionality of this new GroupWise version.
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There are many pitfalls when you are trying to back up a Novell GroupWise system, not to mention when you're trying to restore it! This lab will give you hands on experience how to make sure you have a 100-percent valid backup of your favorite e-mail system. You will also learn how to restore complete systems as well as individual items. At the end of this lab you will be able to make a good backup and efficiently use the tools available, such as snapshots, TSAs and third-party solutions.
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Security is always a magic word in IT environments. We are lucky because GroupWise is not really in danger to be attacked by viruses. Security is more than this. Secure connections, secure passwords, encrypted transportation and more. This session will cover those areas that are frequently overlooked in the security of Novell GroupWise environments. Hand-on labs will show you how to implement of secure LDAP authentication, how to enhance the security of GroupWise with SSL communication and how to roll out S/MIME to users.
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GroupWise WebAccess is one of the major accesspoint for GroupWise. Because no client preparation is needed it is the easiest way to read and answer mails, check appointments or access via proxy to additional data. But does this portal fit to your companies environment? For example, do we really have to use the American way of notation for a date (mmddyy)? Is our week starting with Sunday or with Monday? More of these kind of requests from real life will be the base for this lab, which teaches you how to customize Webaccess to fit to your environment.

As GroupWise has grown in sophistication, the need to keep track of the many parts of the system has become more important. Usually monitoring will be used if there are problems and usually we need more data or history to tell why there are troubles. The GroupWise Monitor is a free and a very powerful monitoring tool - so use it. "How to Monitor GroupWise" will tell you what you have to do to maintain your monitor. But this lab will you also show how powerful reports can be - not just for troubleshooting but also for a better design or planning future investments.