IBM, a leader in collaboration, has created IBM Workplace Collaboration Services--a new completely, integrated collaborative environment based on open standards. IBM Workplace Collaboration Services provides a wide range of integrated, ready-to-use communication and collaboration capabilities as services for the IBM Workplace environment. This includes capabilities such e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, presence and awareness, instant messaging, learning, team spaces, Web conferencing, and document and Web content management. This IBM Redbooks publication is an installation and deployment guide for IBM Workplace Collaboration Services Release 2.5. We provide detailed installation procedures for Microsoft Windows and Novell SUSE Linux and highlight clustered deployment.

IBM Workplace Services Express is software that makes it easy for you, your colleagues, your teams, and your entire organization to quickly collaborate and effectively work together. Designed specifically for small and medium-sized organizations with less than a thousand employees, or departmental needs in larger organizations, Workplace Services Express enables you to easily create, edit, and share documents from your own customized Workplace environment. This IBM Redbooks publication will introduce you to Workplace Services Express and its features and tell you how to deploy and customize it. Whether you are a line-of-business manager who wants to understand the business value of Workplace Services Express, an administrator who wants to install it, or an application developer who wants to customize it, this book is for you. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

IBM Lotus software has created IBM Lotus Workplace, an integrated family of products based on open standards. Lotus Workplace combines market-leading collaborative components that can be used with a variety of security-rich clients for simplified access and interaction with other people and a host of collaborative applications such as e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, instant messaging, Web conferencing, team spaces, document and Web content management, and e-learning. IBM Lotus Workplace products include: This IBM Redbooks publication is an installation and deployment guide for the Lotus Workplace 2.0.1 platform. We provide detailed installation procedures for installing the Lotus Workplace products on both a Microsoft Windows 2000 server and a Linux server running SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8.1. We also discuss important deployment and planning scenarios, as well as tips, best practices, and techniques for troubleshooting errors during installation.

The Lotus Discovery Server is a knowledge server. It provides search and expertise location solutions designed to ensure that the relevant knowledge and collective experience of an organization is readily available to help individuals and teams solve everyday business problems. In this IBM Redbooks publication we provide an in-depth discussion of the architecture and capabilities of the newest release of the Discovery Server - Discovery Server 2.0. We discuss the key aspects involved in planning for the deployment of this product, from both organizational and technical viewpoints. We also discuss: the key elements of a solid infrastructure design to ensure scalability and reliability, development and maintenance of an enterprise taxonomy, integration of Discovery Server into your existing environment and applications, use of the Discovery Server API toolkit, and ongoing Discovery Server maintenance. This book is appropriate for technologists and project managers who are involved with Lotus Discovery Server-related projects. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.