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PowerShare Collaboration Servers -- Product Description
Copyright 1993, Apple Computer, Inc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Features
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
Automatic network security
• Authenticates PowerTalk users and applications
• Encrypts network traffic between PowerTalk users and applications
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
Technical Specifications
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
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
Easy Setup
• Automatically sets up basic PowerShare Mail and Catalog servers
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
System requirements
• Apple Macintosh personal computer (68020 CPU or higher) with at least 8MB
of RAM
• Hard disk
© 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.
September 1993. Product specifications are subject to change without notice.
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