PowerShare Design & Planning Guide: Where To Find (9/95)

You can find "The Design & Planning of PowerShare Collaboration Server Systems" guide in Acrobat pdf format at the following URL:

http://www.info.apple.com/dev/evangelism/powertalk/guides.html

Here is the table of contents:

1 - PowerShare Overview 2
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The PowerShare Catalog System 2
Mail Servers and Catalog Servers 6
Folders and Records 8
Aliases 10
Groups 10
Special "System" Folders 10
Distribution and Replication 13
Access Control 15
Time Service 16

2 - System and Network Planning 17
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Planning Network Topology 17
Planning Catalog System Hierarchy 21
Mail Server Planning 29
Folder Replication Strategies 29
Folder replication in a multi-server environment 32
Performance 32
Planning Summary 33

3 - Adding Services 35
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Adding Catalog Servers 35
Adding Mail Servers 37
Replicating Folders 38
Adding Folders, Records, and Groups 41
Adding a New Catalog System 43
Joining Catalog Systems 44

4 - Changing and Managing a Topology 46
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Moving and Deleting Folders 46
Moving, Deleting or Changing Records 47
Moving and Deleting Groups 48
Effects on Personal Catalogs 48
Moving and Deleting Servers 48
Deleting Replicated Folders 50
Changing a User's Mail Server 50
Reference Time Server 51

5 - Access Control 52
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Catalog Access 52
Access Privileges - Folders 53
Folder Administrators 55
Access Privileges - Groups 56
Access Privileges - Records 57
Guest and Limited Access 60

6 - Maintenance, Support & Recovery 65
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Master Folders Directory 65
Reference Time Server Management 66
Warning Signs 67
Backup and Restore 67
Replacing a Dead Server 68
Recovering from a Power Outage 69

7 - Importing Data into a Catalog (Batch) 70
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Batch file format 71
Special and Built-in Types 75
Changing Default Delimiters 78

8 - Integrating with Other Mail Systems 79
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SMTP 79

Appendix 81
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HighTech 81
MarketingTWO 83
University of Three 85


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