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Alfresco for Administrators

By : Vandana Pal
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Alfresco for Administrators

By: Vandana Pal

Overview of this book

Alfresco 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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Alfresco for Administrators
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered details about the core components of Alfresco. ContentStore and the database are the building blocks of Alfresco. These two components form your full repository.

Alfresco provides you with various different types of ContentStore, like file storage, an encrypted store, and a caching store. Based on the system design, we can use any of them. Alfresco also provides you with the flexibility to define multiple stores and content can be bound to their own specific stores.

We also discussed the database schemas of Alfresco and a few of the important tables and their associations. Content in any ECM system has a lifecycle. Content moves from live to archive and is then removed from the system. While going through this phase, it impacts all core components.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the important tools and procedures required for the maintenance and troubleshooting of Alfresco.