Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 is released
Open Enterprise Server 11 SP1 has been released today
LearnEventually, hopefully in the next update or two to more about OES11SP1 here
The download links for OES11 SP1 are:
Download link: http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=rmqoq2iehSQ~
Documentation: http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes11/
As far as Domain Services for Windows goes, the install will now allow you to choose between a simplified install or the standard. The simplified install of DSfW reduces the number of screen, removing many of the screens that most people click next on with out any changes too. The install is also more intuitive. If follows along with the type of DSfW install you are doing instead of starting with the eDirectory configuration.
OES11SP1 has also improved gposync. This should help reduce issues with gopsync not working correctly or properly syncing gpos out to the ADC DSfW servers.
OES11SP1 migrations for DSfW servers are now supported. The supported migrations are:… Continue reading
Script to check DSfW Processes
I have a updated script to check all essential DSfW processes. The name of the script is dsfw_processchk. The script is great to use if you are worried that a DSfW process will stop and you don’t want to receive several phone calls alerting you to the problem or the DSfW server has been unstable you you need to time track down the invalid requests hitting the DSfW server.
The script will report which processes are running or have stopped. It works by validating that a PID exists for each process. If a process is not running the script has the option to restart the services, send an e-mail that a process has stopped, and update the syslog.
Key configuration
# Set RESTART_DSFW to 1 to reload DSfW services if one or service is not running,
# Set RESTART_DSFW to 0 to leave the services… Continue reading
Looking for DSfW Feedback
There is a new survey for Domain Services for Windows at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/dsfwsurvey
Please provide any feedback on DSfW. You can have direct impact as to the road map of DSfW plus enter a chance to win $50. If your orginization is currently using DSfW, planning on using DSfW, or thinking about using DSfW please help out by taking the survey.
For more information on the survey itself go to coolsolutions.
July 2012 Maintenance for OES11 is released
July 2012 Maintenance for OES 11 along with July 2012 Scheduled Maintenance for eDirectory 8.8 SP6 patch 6 have been released
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch
- – 771737: OES11SP1LH: MMC can not create a User
- – 761449: Can not Create Groups or OUs with MMC
- – 758572: DSFW: Windows 7 remote assistance is not working.
- – 766772: UpdatePDCMaster.pl failed during PDC role transfer
- – 763854: Managing GPOs fail due to SYSVOL DFS referral link pointing to wrong path
- – 738214: DSfW – All xadsd threads stuck in pthread_cond_wait/lock wait, causing xadsd to be unresponsive
- – 758992: DSFW: Polycom SSO configuration fails with error “”Access Denied”” while changing password
- – 703655: SYSVOL DFS referral link points to ADC and interrupts GPO Administrator operations
July 2012 Scheduled Maintenance for OES11
- – 583261: httpstkd randomly stops
- – 658145: NSS volume with Di and RI flags, incorrectly blocks root user… Continue reading
July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 has been released
The July 2012 Maintenance Patch for oes2 sp3 has been release
The 64 bit version can be found here
The 32 bit version can be found here
List of bug fixes in the July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3
- 142091: Inconsistency with naming in the GUI
- 142183: Secrets added to Gnome Keyring through CASAManager have a default key/value pair of GKPassword/novell
- 146015: A CASAKeyring is created to add secrets to the Gnome Keyring through CASAManager
- 147031: CASAManager should have a menu item.
- 155529: Firefox Tab is available in CASAManager Preferences even if Firefox is not installed
- 172719: Starting CASAManager with store locked throws exception
- 200912: After a lun is resized gpt does not work correctly
- 508945: When micasad is stopped its status is displayed as “dead”
- 509471: miCASASetCredential handles input argument incorrectly
- 523398: CASA Manager prints GTK warning messages on terminal
- 523402: CASA Manager prints messages on terminal when… Continue reading
July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 eDirectory 8.8 SP6 patch 6 released
The July 2012 Maintenance Patch for eDirectory 8.8 SP6 has been release
The 64 bit version can be found here
The 32 bit version can be found here
List of bug fixes in the July 2012 Maintenance for OES2SP3 for eDirectory patch 6
- – 679767: NMAS Client aborts NCP connection and returns error -625 immediately upon having sent NMAS Start Session request on an idle NCP connection where server sent Watchdog packets.
- – 733188: eDirectory returns error 48 ‘Anonymous Simple Bind Disabled’ for authenticated TLS bind
- – 749516: Dclient DDCGetSEVList function does not return cifs users GUID causing CIFS users authorization failure and Memory/CPU spike up.
- – 765688: Right granted to dynamic group is assigned to whole tree, not just its members
| novell-dclient-32bit-8.8.6.6-0.7.x86_64.rpm | 372.8 KB (381796) |
| novell-dclient-8.8.6.6-0.7.x86_64.rpm | 385.3 KB (394647) |
| novell-edirectory-jclnt-8.8.6.6-0.7.x86_64.rpm | 273.7 KB (280353) |
| novell-edirectory-ldap-extensions-32bit-8.8.6.3-0.11.x86_64.rpm | 28.2 KB (28933) |
| novell-edirectory-ldap-extensions-8.8.6.3-0.11.x86_64.rpm | 29.7 KB (30492) |
| novell-edirectory-tsands-32bit-8.8.6.6-0.7.x86_64.rpm | 257.4 KB… Continue reading |
July 2012 Maintenance for OES11 eDirectory 8.8 SP6 patch 6 released
The July 2012 Maintenance Patch for eDirectory 8.8 SP6 has been release
The 64 bit version can be found here
List of bug fixes in the July 2012 Maintenance for OES11 for eDirectory patch 6
- – 679767: NMAS Client aborts NCP connection and returns error -625 immediately upon having sent NMAS Start Session request on an idle NCP connection where server sent Watchdog packets.
- – 733188: eDirectory returns error 48 ‘Anonymous Simple Bind Disabled’ for authenticated TLS bind
- – 749516: Dclient DDCGetSEVList function does not return cifs users GUID causing CIFS users authorization failure and Memory/CPU spike up.
- – 765688: Right granted to dynamic group is assigned to whole tree, not just its members
| novell-dclient-32bit-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 350.2 KB (358675) |
| novell-dclient-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 352.7 KB (361182) |
| novell-edirectory-jclnt-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 267.9 KB (274431) |
| novell-edirectory-tsands-32bit-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 258.3 KB (264554) |
| novell-edirectory-tsands-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 265.3 KB (271675) |
| novell-NDSbase-32bit-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 406.9 KB (416672) |
| novell-NDSbase-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 553.3 KB (566596) |
| novell-NDScommon-8.8.6.6-1.1.x86_64.rpm | 225.7 KB (231121) |
| novell-NDSimon-8.8.6.6-1.4.x86_64.rpm | 2.5 MB (2672112)… Continue reading |
Stand alone eDirectory 8.8 SP7 Patch 1
eDirectory 8.8 SP7 Patch 1 has been release for stand alone (non OES) Linux, Unix, and Windows
Issues addressed in the patch include
NDSD
– Object modifications taking longer on the Windows platform than on Linux (Bug 759576)
– Installing an eDirectory patch on Windows 2008 fails stating that the installed patch is of a later version (Bug 766254)
resulted in
– Alias objects not being returned during searches in iMonitor or iManager (Bug 738688)
– Dynamic group rights issue (Bug 765688)
– NDSD core from libslp.so.1 (Bug 492605)
– NDSD core after upgrading eDirectory to 64-bit on Solaris (Bug 750264)
LDAP
– LDAP control information is now shown in ndstrace (Bug 757770)
NMAS
– On Solaris an LDAP search on login time returned, “loginTime: 19700101000000Z” (Bug 734632)
– Error: -222 when changing a user’s password with write rights to the… Continue reading
How to find all DNS Locator objects
When installing DSfW into an environment were Novell DNS is already in use, be sure to use the existing DNS Locator object. It will simplify management for the all the zones and DNS servers. The locator object is used by the DNS/DHCP Console to return all zones and DNS servers the locator object knows about. If there are multiple locator objects then the first locator object discovered by the DNS/DHCP Console will be used. What will happen is only zones and DNS servers the DNS Loctor object knows about will be displayed and managed in the DNS/DHCP Console. This makes managing DNS difficult. Before installing doe a quick search for existing locator objects.
Do the following search to discover existing locator objects
ldapsearch -x -b “” -s sub objectClass=dNIPlocator