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- PowerShare Collaboration Servers -- Product Description
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- Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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- PowerShare collaboration server software provides System 7 Pro PowerTalk
- users with server-based messaging, shared catalogs, and network security
- services on AppleTalk networks. PowerShare provides the foundation for team
- productivity and workflow solutions.
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- The PowerShare Mail Server acts as a store-and-forward agent for PowerTalk
- messages, ensuring delivery even when the sender and recipient systems are
- not available at the same time. With AppleTalk Remote Access, remote users
- can dial in at any time to send and retrieve messages.
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- The PowerShare Catalog Server is a shared repository for collaborative
- information such as employee databases and corporate directories. Storing
- PowerTalk catalogs on shared servers minimizes administrative overhead.
- PowerShare servers automatically authenticate PowerTalk users and encrypt
- their network traffic to ensure the privacy of sensitive information. Multiple
- PowerShare servers can work together using distributed, replicated catalogs
- that provide higher performance and greater reliability. This makes PowerShare
- as useful for organizations with thousands of users as it is for small teams.
- Replicated catalogs are easy to manage because PowerShare automatically keeps
- them synchronized.
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- Gateway software from other vendors allows PowerShare servers to exchange mail
- with other messaging systems. Because the gateways reside on a PowerShare
- server instead of on individual PowerTalk systems, management overhead and
- costs are minimized.
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- PowerShare servers can act as the focus for collaborative applications ranging
- from basic electronic mail to sophisticated scheduling, project management,
- and business-forms routing. Independent software developers are creating
- innovative applications in these categories that take advantage of PowerTalk
- and PowerShare technology, enabling a wide range of team productivity and
- workflow solutions.
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- PowerShare collaboration server software can be installed on the same Macintosh
- computer as AppleShare or other server software, and can be administered from
- any Macintosh system on the network.
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- Features
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- Easy administration
- • Provides consistency and ease of administration for large teams of
- PowerTalk users
- • Includes easy-to-use administrative utilities to streamline installation
- and management
- • Allows server management from any Macintosh on the network
- • Enables the network administrator to control access to shared catalogs
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- Automatic network security
- • Authenticates PowerTalk users and applications
- • Encrypts network traffic between PowerTalk users and applications
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- Scalability
- • Allows a network administrator to set up a single server in minutes
- • Provides the infrastructure to support large multiserver distributed
- systems Collaboration on demand
- • Allows multiple users and applications to share catalogs and server
- gateways
- • Lets mobile PowerTalk users keep in touch with colleagues easily anytime,
- anywhere
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- Technical Specifications
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- PowerShare Mail Server
- • Provides server-based messaging services for PowerTalk users
- • Stores PowerTalk messages to ensure delivery when user systems come on
- line PowerShare Catalog Server
- • Stores collaborative information—-such as group addresses, document
- templates, graphics, and sound—-in shared catalogs
- • Authenticates users and encrypts their network traffic
- • Supports multiserver distributed systems
- • Replicates and synchronizes catalogs across multiple servers for higher
- performance and greater reliability
- • Enables multiple collaborative applications to share a single catalog
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- PowerShare System Manager’s Utility
- • Monitors mail and catalog server activity, user accounts, and stored message
- • Provides system alerts to the administrator
- • Allows server management from any Macintosh system on the network
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- Easy Setup
- • Automatically sets up basic PowerShare Mail and Catalog servers
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- Optional PowerShare Gateways
- • Provide connectivity with other messaging systems such as QuickMail from
- CE Software, Microsoft Mail, and Internet/SMTP
- • Available from independent software vendors
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- System requirements
- • Apple Macintosh personal computer (68020 CPU or higher) with at least 8MB
- of RAM
- • Hard disk
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- © 1993 Apple Computer, Inc. Apple, the Apple logo, AppleShare, AppleTalk, and
- Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S.A. and
- other countries. PowerShare, PowerTalk, and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple
- Computer, Inc. Mention of non-Apple products is for informational purposes and
- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Apple assumes no
- responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of these
- products. All understandings, agreements, or warranties, if any, take place
- between the vendors and the prospective users.
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- September 1993. Product specifications are subject to change without notice.
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