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Chapter 4. Deploying IBM Workplace

Collaboration Services

(Microsoft Windows)

This chapter discusses the installation of IBM Workplace Collaboration Services

in a two-tier environment. A two-tier environment is one in which the Workplace

Collaboration Services components and the HTTP server are installed on one

machine and the RDBMS is installed on a remote machine. In this deployment

scenario, the LDAP server can be on different machine, or it can be installed (in a

demo or pilot deployment) on the RDBMS machine. For production deployments,

the LDAP server should be installed on a separate machine.

The two-tier deployment process includes the following steps:

1. Installing IBM Workplace Collaboration Services

2. Configuring Workplace Collaboration Services security:

a. Disabling the default Workplace Collaboration Services security using the

Configuration Wizard

b. Enabling Workplace Collaboration Services security with an external

LDAP server using the Configuration Wizard

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3. Configuring the Workplace Collaboration Services data store:

a. Installing the DB2 Administration Client and applicable fix pack on the

Workplace Collaboration Services server

b. Installing DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition, applicable fix pack, and

hotfix on the remote database server

c. Configuring the Workplace Collaboration Services database using the

Configuration Wizard:

i. Creating the Workplace Collaboration Services database

ii. Cataloging the Workplace Collaboration Services database in the

Administration Client

iii. Creating the database elements required by Workplace Collaboration

Services

d. Transferring WebSphere Portal data from Cloudscape to DB2 using the

Configuration Wizard

e. Transferring Workplace Collaboration Services data from Cloudscape to

DB2 using the Configuration Wizard

4. Running Workplace Collaboration Services configuration script to connect to

external HTTP server:

a. Installing an HTTP server

b. Configuring the HTTP server

c. Connecting Workplace Collaboration Services to the external HTTP server

using a configuration script

d. Updating the WebSphere Application Server plug-in

e. Configuring Workplace Collaborative Learning for the external HTTP

server