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Novell's Net Gain: Page 2 of 4

NetWare adds the Web portal Virtual Office to version 6.5. Virtual Office allows a variety of components for team management and maintenance, including e-mail, eGuide, password changes, Web bookmark store, and links to NetStorage and Virtual Teams--a collaboration tool.

With Virtual Teams, teams can be created by any user and may include a threaded discussion group, file space, a group calendar, shared bookmarks and a chat client. By default, team files are stored on the server's SYS:tomcat\4\webapps\nps\web-inf\communityStore directory. For an administrator to specify where to store the Virtual Office/Virtual Team files uploaded for the teams, he or she must edit the config file.

An admin can configure each Virtual Office item. All the functions I tried worked like a charm and should make it easier for NetWare users to take advantage of the operating system's resources.

Web Management

Novell is moving toward remote management for all its products. For NetWare 6.5, it has included iManager 2.0, a Web interface for managing virtually everything about NetWare. IManager lets administrators designate user-role-based assignments. With the 2.0 release, iManager replaces most of the functionality of NetWare Administrator or ConsoleOne.