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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By : Dmitri Khanine
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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By: Dmitri Khanine

Overview of this book

Oracle UCM is a world-leading Enterprise Content Management platform. From Document Management, Web, Records, and more—Oracle has got all your business needs covered. Oracle UCM enables your organization to efficiently manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents. Written by Oracle ACE Dmitri Khanine, this book is a complete practical guide to building an ECM system and successfully configuring, administering, and operating it. It also shows you how to efficiently manage your organization's content and customize the UCM to fit your needs. This book wastes no time in getting you up and running and dives straight into the installation of the content server in Chapter 1. In the second chapter, you will master all the major controls and the admin interface. Metadata—a very important ingredient of any ECM—is thoroughly covered in Chapter 3. The book then moves on to the important tasks of securing your ECM system, configuring and managing workflows, and understanding and implementing virtual folders. The book also gives you an under-the-hood view of Stellent in Chapter 7. In the later chapters, you will learn how to migrate content like a pro and easily customize Oracle ECM. A bonus addition to the book is the final chapter, which is an easy-to-follow primer on web content management.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgement
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Up and Running
Exploring Oracle UCM Product Offering
Index

Chapter 4. Understanding Security

A few years ago I was spending days in the meeting room with a couple of very bright students and two talented developers who were new to Stellent. We were there for nearly a week trying to make security work for that organization and it wasn't a pleasant experience!

A lot of people are confused and even scared when it comes to Content Server security. You might be too. I've seen committees and organizations spending months at a time trying to understand it.

What's going on?

In March of 2009 I uploaded a video tutorial on YouTube (www.youtube.com/stellentexperts) where I tried a totally different approach at explaining Content Server security. Hundreds of people have watched it since and I'm proud to tell you that it made it crystal clear, logical, and easy to understand.

The new approach made all the difference!

Let's use it here to make Content Server security clear and easy for you. Here's what you will learn in this chapter:

  • A simple trick to quickly understand...