IBM Workplace Collaboration Services: Release 2.5 Deployment Guide

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Preface

IBM, a leader in collaboration, has created IBM Workplace™ Collaboration

Services—a new completely, integrated collaborative environment based on

open standards. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services provides a wide range of

integrated, ready-to-use communication and collaboration capabilities as

services for the IBM Workplace environment. This includes capabilities such

e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, presence and awareness, instant

messaging, learning, team spaces, Web conferencing, and document and Web

content management.

This IBM Redbook is an installation and deployment guide for IBM Workplace

Collaboration Services Release 2.5. We provide detailed installation procedures

for Microsoft® Windows® and Novell SUSE Linux® and highlight clustered

deployment.

The team that wrote this redbook

This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world

working at the International Technical Support Organization, Cambridge Center.

Philip Monson is a Project Leader at the ITSO Lotus® Center in Cambridge MA.

Phil has been with Lotus and IBM for 15 years, joining the company when the

early versions of Lotus Notes® were rolled out for internal use. He has served in

management, technical, and consulting roles in the IT, Sales, and Development

organizations.

Jeffrey Slone is currently a Senior Curriculum Developer with Workplace, Portal,

and Collaboration Software in the User Experience, Education, and Technical

Enablement group. A nine-year veteran of IBM, Mr. Slone has developed and

delivered training on many of the Lotus product offerings, including Lotus

Domino® and IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. Mr. Slone authored the

IBM Redpaper, Lotus Workplace Messaging Administration Guide, REDP-3860,

and was a contributing author for the IBM Redbooks™ - Lotus Workplace 1.1

Products Deployment Guide, SG24-7087, and Lotus Workplace 2.0.1 Products:

Deployment Guide, SG24-6378. Mr. Slone is a CLP in Lotus Notes and Domino

System Administration.

Tatjana Savov is an IT Specialist working for IBM Software Services for Lotus in

Cologne, Germany. She joined IBM in 1997 as a student and completed her

studies in 2000 with a degree in Business Information Technology from the