The Rapid Deployment of Novell ZENworks® 6.5 Desktop Management

Larry Stein

Senior Engineer, Novacoast, Inc

lstein@novacoast.com

Adam Janosek

Engineer, Novacoast, Inc

ajanosek@novacoast.com

http://www.novacoast.com/brainshare

Agenda

Deploying and Implementing ZENworks

Novacoast’s Rapid Deployment of ZENworks strategy

Demonstration

Questions and answers

Novacoast, Inc.

Company Facts

Founded in 1996

Based in Santa Barbara, California

Professional Services company with practice areas that have been built around key engineers who specialize in a given technology

Additional offices in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Upper Midwest, and throughout California

Named Novell “Partner of the Year” for 2003 and 2004

Receiving our fifth Service Excellence Award

ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management
typical features to be deployed

Help Desk features

Automatic Workstation Import and Removal

Remote Management and Diagnostics

Inventory

User/Workstation management

User and workstation policies

Roaming users

ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management
typically desired features to be deployed (cont.)

Workstation imaging

Attended and unattended OS Delivery

Image Explorer

Application management

Distribution of applications

Self-healing

Support for remote users

Mid-tier services

Support for client-less workstations

Challenges
for a successful ZENworks deployment

T i m e

R e s o u r c e s

E x p e r i e n c e

C o s t

Novacoast’s
Rapid Deployment Methodology of ZENworks

Design the infrastructure

Install the server-side software

Configure policy packages

Configure application launcher settings

Create applications and their associated groups

Create image(s)

Implement and verify in a single container

Replicate to other containers

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Design infrastructure
services placement by location

Main Corporate Site

ZENworks

Root Server

ZENworks

Inventory Database

WAN Site

WAN Site

Application Management

Automatic Workstation Import/Removal

Workstation Imaging

Remote Management

Inventory Database

Workstation Inventory (Root Server)

Application Management

Automatic Workstation Import/Removal

Workstation Imaging

Remote Management

Inventory Database (if local reporting necessary)

Workstation Inventory (Int or Root Server)

Design infrastructure
Automatic Workstation Import Strategy

Workstations are imported to a separate container

Object naming

Use registry entries (client) or let Middle-Tier Server (client-less) resolve zenwsimport

Workstation Removal – number of days

Design infrastructure
Inventory Strategy

Collect inventory at each location

Roll-up to main inventory server

Set up Intermediate Inventory Servers if needed

Design infrastructure
Application Management Strategy

Applications container for each Location

Applications Associated through Groups

Application Launcher Settings for each Location

Design infrastructure
Object placement

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages (if necessary)

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Container Package

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages (if necessary)

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Container Package

Search Policy

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – Server Package

Server Package

Workstation Import Policy

Workstation Removal Policy

Inventory Roll-up Policy for Leaf Servers

ZENworks Database Policy for Root Server

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – Service Location Package

Service Location Package

ZENworks Database Policy

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – User Package

User Package

Dynamic Local User Policy

Desktop Preferences Policy

Remote Control Policy

Windows Group Policy

User Package

Windows Group Policy

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – Application Objects and Groups

Application Objects and Groups

Application Objects are associated to Groups for Distribution

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – Workstation Objects

Workstation Objects

Created by AWI Process

Location O or OU

Workstations

Applications

Department OUs

Workstation Objects

Workstation Packages

User Packages

Container Package

Server Package

Service Location Package

User Packages

Application Objects

Application Association Groups

Design infrastructure
Object placement – Workstation Packages

Workstation Packages

Workstation Inventory Policy

Remote Control Policy

Windows Group Policy

Deploy
Install server software

For site with inventory database

- Install all components

For all other sites

- Install all components except Inventory Database

Deploy
Configure policy packages

User packages

Server packages

Service location package

Container packages

Workstation packages

Deploy
Configure application launcher settings

Configure for each location

Set “Top of Configuration Tree”

Deploy
Configure application objects

Simple applications

SnapShot

MSI

Associations

Deploy
Create workstation OS images

Base image includes

OS and current patches

Novell Client™/ZENworks Management Agent

Use SYSPREP for 2000/XP

NovaCoast Rapid Deployment Universal Image

Add users to appropriate groups

Save personal information

Image workstations

Workstation will register and receive applications on login

Implement
in first location

Implement
Evaluate first location/modify settings

Realistically evaluate success in first deployment implementation

Make modifications as necessary

Implement
in other areas

Copy to New Location

Applications and source files

Policies

Association objects

Tools for Deployment

Batch files – look on Cool Solutions and Rick Laughinghouse web page

ZENworks for Server Management

ZORRO – Set for Release 3Q 2005

Demonstration

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