IBM Workplace Services Express

IBM Workplace Services Express is software that makes it easy for you, your colleagues, your teams, and your entire organization to quickly collaborate and effectively work together. Designed specifically for small and medium-sized organizations with less than a thousand employees, or departmental needs in larger organizations, Workplace Services Express enables you to easily create, edit, and share documents from your own customized Workplace environment. This IBM Redbook will introduce you to Workplace Services Express and its features and tell you how to deploy and customize it.

Whether you are a line-of-business manager who wants to understand the business value of Workplace Services Express, an administrator who wants to install it, or an application developer who wants to customize it, this Redbook is for you.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Installation and administration
Chapter 3. Features and functionality
Chapter 4. Document management
Chapter 5. Themes and skins
Chapter 6. Advanced configuration topics
Chapter 7. Configuring IBM Workplace Services Express for external LDAP directories
Chapter 8. Troubleshooting, tips, and techniques for IBM Workplace Services Express
Appendix A. IBM Workplace Services Express Version 2.5
Appendix B. Installing Domino (optional)
Appendix C. Additional material

• IBM Power 595 Technical Overview and Introduction, REDP-4440-00
• IBM System p5 590 and 595 Technical Overview and Introduction, REDP-4024-01
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics, SG24-6366-01

Publish Date
28 July 2005

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Author(s)

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.

• Philip Monson

Robert Bry is the Enablement Manager for Worldwide Messaging, Collaboration and Competitive Sales, IBM Software Group in Cambridge, MA, U.S. As an Enablement Manager, Robert is responsible for driving key IBM Workplace, IBM WebSphere Portal, and Collaboration software sales initiatives to the IBM software sales teams related competitive awareness, positioning, content, and sales tactics. He is also leveraged in communicating the competitive differentiators of IBM Workplace, Portal, and Collaboration software to global customers and partners. In his prior role with IBM Software Group, he was an IT Specialist and Lotus Worldwide Technology Advocate Team Lead, leading a Worldwide Technical Sales team with evangelizing the value of IBM Messaging and Collaboration software. This is Robert's 10th year with IBM Software Group, and he has been in the messaging and collaboration software industry for 14 years.

• Robert Bry

David Scouller is an EMEA Early Programme Manager with the Global Product Introduction Centre based in the U.K. He has more than 17 years of experience in the IT field working for a number of diverse companies before joining IBM. He has worked for IBM for nearly eight years in a number of roles, including Lotus Information Systems, Software Services for Lotus, and the Product Introduction Centre. His areas of expertise include IBM Workplace Services Express, IBM Workplace, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (formerly called Sametime), and Lotus Team Workplace (formerly called QuickPlace).

• David Scouller

Gianluigi Marchetti is an IT Specialist working for IBM Software Group in Italy. He joined IBM in 1998, and after three years experience in Services, he moved to Software Group, where he now works as a member of the Pan EMEA technical sales team supporting Business Partner and customer offers. Recently, he has focused on WebSphere Portal and IBM Workplace products. Gianluigi is WebSphere Portal product certified as a System Administrator. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna, writing his diploma on Java security. His areas of expertise include Lotus products (Domino, Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, Lotus Team Workplace, and so on), WebSphere, Java, databases, and architectures. His main activities include making presentations, making demonstrations, building prototypes, and speaking at Lotus and WebSphere conferences.

• Gianluigi Marchetti

Katinka Kantor is an IBM Presales IT Specialist. Her expertise is in IBM collaborative technologies. Katinka has been a member of the IBM Worldwide Technical Sales team for five years. This team covers a variety of technical roles acting as subject matter experts for activities ranging from enablement to customer pilots and deployments.

• Katinka Kantor

Margaret O'Connell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM Software Group. She has been with IBM nine years and has worked on the following products: Lotus SmartSuite, Lotus e-Suite, Lotus K-station, WebSphere Portal (collaboration services API and the original Notes view portlets), and IBM Workplace, where she was the architect for the application templating feature. In 2005, Margaret received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) for the Workplace application templating work, and she is now proud to see the feature move "down the stack" to WebSphere Portal, which will debut in a 2006 release of WebSphere Portal. She is currently working on the XForms effort within IBM. Margaret holds a master's degree in Mathematics from Boston College.

• Margaret O'Connell

Evans Opot is a Senior Consultant with Ascendant Technology LLC, an IBM Premier Business Partner based in Austin, TX. He has more than 10 years of IT consulting experience and technical knowledge in Lotus Domino and related products, such as Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing, Lotus Team Workplace, Extended Search, and Domino.doc. Lately, Evans has been focusing on projects involving WebSphere Portal and Workplace Services Express. He is an IBM Certified Professional in Lotus Notes Application Development and System Administration. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Miami University, OH.

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ISBN

0738493546

IBM Form Number
SG24-6758-00

Number of pages
530