All of us at Condrey Corporation have been involved in the development of a new version of Novell Storage Manager, codenamed “Pinehurst,” that is scheduled to be released sometime this summer. This version is the long awaited feature parity version where the Active Directory product has all of the features of the eDirectory product.
Over the last three weeks, this blog author has been writing documentation for the Pinehurst Active Directory Administration Guide. The new quota management and collaborative storage management—features never before available in the Active Directory version of the product—are working great.
The biggest change with the eDirectory version of the product will be the NSMEngine being hosted on an OES 2 Linux box. I haven’t had a chance to work with that yet, but I’ll be doing that soon.
In other news, a lot of our Kanaka customers have been upgrading to Kanaka 2.0—the easiest, and now most flexible way of providing Mac access to Novell network resources.
The upgrading has been especially fast paced with our academic customers in the U.S., where it is summer vacation—the time when many of the K-12 projects take place. The feedback on Kanaka 2.0 continues to be good. Customers seem to be pleased with the addition of the new Kanaka Desktop Client.
