Deploying QuickPlace
by Volker Weber
Lotus QuickPlace is the leading self-service Web tool for team collaboration. With QuickPlace teams can share a virtual workspace to communicate, collaborate and coordinate. People can create and share documents and knowledge, discuss ideas, coordinate tasks, do project management, just to mention a few of the features that QuickPlace offers.
QuickPlaces are created for several reasons. They can serve as a collaborative workspace for teams, they can be created for projects, which live only a limited time and QuickPlaces can be used to help communicate and work together with people outside the company boundaries.
These are the reasons why QuickPlace often becomes popular in organizations. The number of users and QuickPlaces, the amount information expand quickly. In this IBM Redbook, we tell you how to manage this growth and the challenges it raises.
This redbook is about deploying QuickPlace into your organization. The book will help you install, deploy and configure Lotus QuickPlace. It gives you step-by-step instructions how to install QuickPlace server and how to configure it to use the directories your organization has.
QuickPlaces contain sensitive information. We will discuss the security apsects of the QuickPlace server in detail and give instruction how to make a QuickPlace installation secure.
