Benefits to Using ZENworks for Desktops

Significant benefits exist in using the ZENworks for Desktops product in your NetWare and NT/2000 environments. The greatest benefit comes from effectively leveraging existing information that is currently in your directory, and combining this with the new components and tree extensions provided in ZENworks for Desktops. By building these relationships in the directory between users and their desktops, enormous management potential surfaces and is easily available to the administrator. Using the eDirectory tree and its hierarchical nature enables you to manage all the desktops in your tree from one place, or delegate to local administrators and containers in sub-trees.

ZENworks for Desktops also is an easy extension of the current administration system. All the administration requirements for ZENworks for Desktops can be administered via snap-ins that are provided and plugged directly into the ConsoleOne Administration utility. Additionally, ZENworks for Desktops uses the familiar rights associated with your tree to govern how accessible the features are to each user in your system.

The cost of managing the desktops that you have in your network is the single largest cost of having your network at all. Some analysts estimate the desktop maintenance cost to be 78% of all network costs. ZENworks for Desktops helps reduce this cost and specifically makes the administrator's life easier by enabling the administrator to manage most user's desktop needs from the office.

From the office, you can deploy applications to any user in the tree, deliver printers and printer drivers, create Windows NT/2000 workstation accounts, and configure Novell clients on any set, or all desktops across the network. While in the office, you can cite specific policies to be applied to each user's desktop, or desktop groups, that can lock down a system or just customize a background screen. Without leaving the office, you can receive help requests from the user, look at the desktop hardware and operating system information, remotely control and repair the problems, and even re-image the workstation if necessary. Among the greatest costs in maintaining a workstation is that which is involved in traveling from one desktop to the next. With ZENworks for Desktops, that effort is largely minimized.