A fast-paced administrators guide to Alfresco from the administration, managing, and high-level design perspectivesAbout This BookUnderstand system capabilities in order to make informed and appropriate decisions about its administrationManage users, groups, email, file systems, and transformer availability using AlfrescoUse Alfresco to capture and efficiently manage information about repositories, servers, and statisticsWho This Book Is ForThe 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 LearnUnderstand Alfrescos architecture and important building blocksLearn 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 auditsAdministrate Alfresco using the Explorer Admin Console, Share Admin Console, and Workflow Admin ConsoleUnderstand how to integrate LDAP and Active Directory with Alfresco for centralized user managementLearn how Alfresco environments can be clustered for high availabilityFully understand how Alfresco stores content and easily retrieve any information from AlfrescoMonitor and manage Alfresco systems in productionIn DetailAlfresco 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 approachA step-by-step guide to understanding the Alfresco system and making informed and appropriate decisions about administration.