Xerox DocuShare 6.6 Installation Guide

DocuShare 6.6

Best Practices

Publication date: November 2011

This document supports DocuShare Release 6.6 and greater

Prepared by:

Xerox Corporation

DocuShare Business Unit

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Palo Alto, California 94304

USA

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Installation

•Before starting DocuShare software installation, complete the pre-installation checklist that is available in the DocuShare Customer Requirements Input Form (CRIF). This checklist will better prepare you for a smooth software installation.

•Verify that your system memory exceeds the DocuShare minimum system requirement. This memory requirement is in addition to the minimum memory requirement specified for your server OS.

•Refer to the Customer Expectation Setting document for detailed instructions on estimating required disk space for your installation. You should plan for growth; estimating how many documents are you going to add or update each month; what is the life span of an average document; are you going to archive documents after one year or after seven years?

•Install DocuShare software on a dedicated server. Sharing resources with other applications on a server can impact DocuShare performance.

Server administrator rights

•DocuShare site administrators should have local administrator/root access rights to the server OS where DocuShare is installed; to install and update software, run command line utilities, and view and edit configuration files.

Access policies

•For a greater degree of site control, set the Account Management l Access Policies to those shown in this illustration.

•Site Access Authority - Set to User means only DocuShare user accounts can access content on the site. You can set Site Access Authority to Guest if the site has the optional Guest feature. A Guest setting means anyone connecting to the site has access to site content, except content with specific permissions that restrict Guest access.

•Registry Access Authority - Only DocuShare user accounts can view site account information.

•Account Creation Authority - Only DocuShare users with Administrator status can create new user accounts on the site.

•Group Creation Authority - Only DocuShare users with Administrator status can create new group accounts on the site.

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