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Openfire Administration

By : Mayank Sharma
Book Image

Openfire Administration

By: Mayank Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>Openfire is a free, open-source and full featured Jabber-based Instant Messaging server.<br /><br />This book is a guide to setting up Openfire, tweaking it, and customizing it to build a secure and feature-rich alternative to consumer IM networks. The features covered include details about setting up the server, adding and handling users and groups, updating, and extending the service with plug-ins, connecting with users on external IM networks, connecting with external voice over IP solutions and more, with user-friendly instructions and examples so that you can easily set up your IM network.<br /><br />The book deals with several features of Openfire to streamline communication within an enterprise and beyond. It shows how to configure Openfire to allow only secured connections. It then explains how Openfire complements other existing services running on your network. Managing and fostering IM as a real-time collaboration and communication tool is what this book is about.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Openfire Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Chapter 4. Organizing Users

Throughout this book, I've been mentioning how IM increases productivity; in this chapter the rubber hits the road.

But before we can get started, we'll have to understand how users are added and organized in Openfire. On the upside, learning to add, remove, and manage users is one of the last tasks that you will need to know if you're using Openfire in a small-to-medium sized single office. By the time you're done with this chapter, you'll be itching to roll out Openfire.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Adding, editing, and deleting users

  • Temporarily suspending users

  • Organizing users into groups

  • Editing and deleting groups

  • Pre-populating rosters

Adding Users

This chapter revolves around the Users/Groups tab. Currently, when you head over to that tab, it will list the default admin user and any other you might have created from within the clients, before we disabled that feature in the last chapter.

Ok, so if you want to add a user, under Users/Groups, you'll notice a...