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Windows 7 and Novell Roaming Profiles

Asked by Gazaway in Novell Netware Network Software, Windows 7

Tags: Windows 7, Netware, ZENworks, roaming profiles

I'm afraid I already know the answers, but one can always hope someone else has a brilliant solution.

Current setup: Netware 6.5 sp5 server, ZENworks 3.2 (I know, I know!), and student computers running Win XP SP3. The only thing we're using ZENworks for is roaming profiles for the students using the computer lab. Nearly all the directories have been redirected to the users' home directories on the Netware server so only a small, volatile profile is loaded when they log in. We have less than 150 users, one Netware server, one tree.

Problem: We would like to upgrade the student computers to Windows 7 (never even considered Vista seriously). However, as I understand it, our current Novell Client (4.91 SP2) won't work with Win 7, so we will have to upgrade to the Vista version of the client. But when we upgrade the client, the old ZENworks (even if we were running ver. 7) won't work for roaming profiles. So we have to upgrade to ZENworks 10. But ZENworks 10 doesn't run on Netware, only Linux or Win 2003+ servers. In fact, from my research, it appears that ZENworks 10 won't have anything whatsoever to do with Netware. But we still need Netware for some other apps. Also, eDirectory is running on our Netware server and I suppose that would need to be migrated to the new, ZENworks-10-compatible server.

Ergo: If we upgrade the student computers to Win 7 AND want to keep roaming profile functionality, we'll have to setup either a Windows 2003+ server or a Linux server with ZENworks 10 and move eDirectory to that server.

Questions: Are the above assumptions correct? Can the users' home directories still reside on the Netware server, or will they have to be moved as well? I actually have a zillion questions, but we'll start with these first and open new ones as needed.
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