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    31

    Possiblity to migrate/move volume on NSS32 to NSS64

    Work in background without to off-line volume/pool

    Comments (6) | by: Markus E. | over a year ago | Last activity 3 days ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    30

    DNS / DHCP Management Console should be installed via MSI on Windows ...

    Currently the DNS/DHCP Console is installed on 32-bit Windows using an older setup utility and the image assets are clearly from the 1990s. On 64-bit Windows the ...

    Comments (2) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | DNS
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    30

    Better Profiling and Tuning Tools for eDirectory

    Description: When troubleshooting eDirectory slowness (but not outright dysfunction), it is often very difficult to diagnose the cause. Even Novell Support often has ...

    Comments (3) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory
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    28

    Support thin provisioning for NSS Volumes

    Customers want to save space on their SAN by thin provisioning volumes but if something like Salvage is enabled, the free space on the volume, and therefore all the space ...

    Comments (5) | by: Lothar W. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    OES Health Check - Self Healing

    When something stops working in OES, debugging is incredibly difficult for the Administrator. There needs to be a tool that checks all the OES service health. ...

    Comments (0) | by: Marty M. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    26

    Rebranding term 'OES Network' in Log-on Screen of the OES Client

    We would like to change the standard networkname 'OES Network' in the term 'Logon to OES Network' from the OES Client. I think this should not be a great challenge. ...

    Comments (6) | by: Beat S. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Novell Client
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    26

    Upgrade (Migration) to OES 2015 - Check for expired certificates

    The upgrade routine should check for expired certificates as STEP 1 in the upgrade process. This should be a Prerequisites checklist type of upgrade routine. If any of ...

    Comments (0) | by: Gene H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Migration
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    25

    NSS support for NFSv4

    There have been some occasional requests for exposing NSS via NFSv4 protocol. If this is of interest to you please, add a comment with the use case and up vote it.

    Comments (7) | by: Madhan P. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    24

    Continue Development on .NET / C# LDAP Libraries

    Microsoft provides a DirectoryService class in .NET that is supposed to handle LDAP communication. While it is possible to write applications targeted at non-Microsoft ...

    Comments (1) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | eDirectory
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    23

    NSS Rights Available in OES Remote Manager

    Description: Discovering and modifying NSS rights in iManager or the Novell Client for Windows can often be a laborious ordeal, especially if many changes have to be made ...

    Comments (3) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Remote Manager (NRM)
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    22

    Use letsencrypt for all OES certs

    Certificates management is tiresome and lack of proper use encourages insecure systems. There is a new, open, and free system that can securely automate SSL/TLS ...

    Comments (0) | by: Simon P. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    21

    /etc/novell-release file should contain indication of latest ...

    Hello During support of Open Enterprise server, a customer proposed that we include the maintenance patch level as well in the /etc/novell-release file So for example ...

    Comments (0) | by: Thomas N. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other
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    19

    NSS Pool Move is an excellent start, but we also need "Cross Server" ...

    Using pool move to relocate a pool from one piece of storage to an alternative storage location on the same server. In a cluster it take the concept to a whole new level ...

    Comments (4) | by: Tim H. | over a year ago | Last activity 3 days ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    19

    Pathname Exceeds 255-Character Limit

    https://www.novell.com/documentation/oes11/stor_nss_lx/data/b5wurur.html Please extend this limit to lets say 65k. When migrating from other filesystems, fileservers to ...

    Comments (11) | by: Gellért H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NCP
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    18

    Make salvage work recursive on directory trees

    A user who deletes a directory tree by accident will have to salvage all data in subdirectories one by one. This can be time consuming and highly inconvenient. Enabling ...

    Comments (1) | by: Günther S. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Novell Client
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    17

    More Supported Browsers for the iPrint Plug-In and iManager and Map ...

    iManager is the management tool that allows you to manage your print environment. You can create printers, printer drivers, profiles, and users But... The iPrint ...

    Comments (0) | by: Carlos R. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | iPrint
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    17

    Improve Multipath Handling for OES

    Currently, with OES 11 SP2 on SLES 11 SP3. When a SAN administrator presents a new lun or resizes and existing one to the server, the only way for the server to see the ...

    Comments (9) | by: David G. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    17

    Provide NCP Libraries for Common Programming Languages

    The current generation of mobile devices is not conducive to traditional "heavy clients" such as the Novell Client for Windows. Their operating systems do not allow for ...

    Comments (0) | by: Johnnie O. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Novell Client
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    16

    NSS support for nested groups

    NSS should support nested eDirectory groups

    Comments (3) | by: Gellért H. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | NSS
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    16

    Put iFolder features into Filr

    We have used iFolder to backup local desktop/ laptop's My Document folder to protect against data loss. It has worked perfectly for years helping us recover a users local ...

    Comments (0) | by: John R. | over a year ago | Last activity over a year ago | Status changed over a year ago | Other