The PowerShare Servers provide three primary services that enable a wide
range of collaborative applications:
1) Catalog services. A shared, centrally-administered catalog which can
be used by users and collaborative applications.
2) Authentication services. The Catalog Server acts as a trusted third
party in establishing authenticated network connections.
3) Mail services. A store-and-forward mail and message server. Catalog
services In a PowerShare System, the catalog is a collection of records
stored in folders on one or more PowerShare Catalog Servers. Each
catalog record contains information about an entity in the
PowerShare System, which can be a user, group of users, network device
(such as a printer or file server), purchase order forms, or meeting
rooms.