A fast-paced administrator's guide to Alfresco from the administration, managing, and high-level design perspectives About This Book Understand system capabilities in order to make informed and appropriate decisions about its administration Manage users, groups, email, file systems, and transformer availability using Alfresco Use Alfresco to capture and efficiently manage information about repositories, servers, and statistics Who This Book Is For The target audience would be users with a basic knowledge of Content Management System, and also users who want to understand Alfresco from the administration and high-level design perspectives. What You Will Learn Understand Alfresco's architecture and important building blocks Learn to install Alfresco on various application servers such as Tomcat , JBoss, and WebLogic. Become familiar with various configurations in Alfresco such as databases, filesystems, email, and audits Administrate Alfresco using the Explorer Admin Console, Share Admin Console, and Workflow Admin Console Understand how to integrate LDAP and Active Directory with Alfresco for centralized user management Learn how Alfresco environments can be clustered for high availability Fully understand how Alfresco stores content and easily retrieve any information from Alfresco Monitor and manage Alfresco systems in production In Detail Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system for Windows and Linux-like operating systems. The year-on-year growth of business connections, contacts, and communications is expanding enterprise boundaries more than ever before. Alfresco enables organizations to collaborate more effectively, improve business process efficiency, and ensure information governance. The basic purpose of Alfresco is to help users to capture and manage information in a better way. It helps you capture, organize, and share binary files. This book will cover the basic building blocks of an Alfresco system, how the components fit together, and the information required to build a system architecture. This book will also focus on security aspects of Alfresco. such as authentication, troubleshooting, managing permissions, and so on. It will also focus on managing content and storage, indexing and searches, setting up clustering for high availability, and so forth. Style and approach A step-by-step guide to understanding the Alfresco system and making informed and appropriate decisions about administration.

A timely and authoritative guide, written by the Chief Architect and Founder of Alfresco Alfresco is considered the leading open source solution for Web and Content Management. What makes Alfresco unique is its services, which can be easily extended with web scripts via RESTful services. Written by an author team that includes the chief architect and the founder of Alfresco, this comprehensive guide provides in-depth coverage of the Alfresco architecture and services and shows how to extend them through Web scripts to meet real business needs. You'll learn how to use Alfresco services to create effective content management solutions while detailed code examples show you how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts using RESTful services to deliver custom solutions. Features detailed, working code examples that demonstrate how to extend Alfresco with Web scripts Written by the Chief Architect and other key Alfresco insiders, ensuring that this book is both authoritative and up-to-date Shows how to integrate Alfresco with Drupal and Joomla portal solutions Covers the upcoming Alfresco 3.2 release Includes real-world case examples of increasing levels of sophistication and complexity The companion Web site contains all source code examples in the book You'll benefit from this timely resource that shows how to get the most from Alfresco for specific business requirements.

This book distils the hands-on approach of the training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco 4 incrementally through practical examples. Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help developers to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.This book is designed for experienced users, business owners, or system administrators who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free, many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. You need to have a degree of technical confidence, but you do not require specialist system admin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running.Though this book is not a developer guide, various examples in the book will help you to extend Alfresco functionality and to integrate Alfresco with external systems.

How to customize, use, and administer this powerful, Open Source Java-based Enterprise CMS.

Customizing Alfresco with actions, web scripts, web forms, workflows, and more

If you are an Alfresco developer who has no experience with web scripts and you want to start developing Alfresco web scripts, then this book is definitely for you.

Written in an easy-to-read and encouraged-to-try style, this book will take you from the basics of using Share to deploying Alfresco Share through a case-study. The necessary screenshots and thorough explanations are provided. If you are a business user or content manager looking to implement a collaboration strategy for your enterprise, then this book is for you. Although no knowledge of Alfresco is presumed, exposure to XML and concepts of webscripts and Document Management will help you to get the most from this book.