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Working with Teamlinks
Client-Server Office Computing for Microsoft Windows
- 1st Edition - August 13, 1993
- Author: Tony Redmond
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 5 5 8 - 1 1 6 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 4 0 2 - 9
Working with Teamlinks: Client-Server Office Computing for Microsoft Windows presents the fundamental aspects of TeamLinks program. This book deals with the network-based… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWorking with Teamlinks: Client-Server Office Computing for Microsoft Windows presents the fundamental aspects of TeamLinks program. This book deals with the network-based application services such as MAILbus, DEC MAILworks, and TeamRoute. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the TeamLinks program. This text then examines the practical aspects of office systems implementation that outlast the specific details about any version of any particular product. Other chapters describe the hardware and software requirements for TeamLinks for Windows. This book discusses as well TeamLinks mail system and the structure of the TeamLinks File Cabinet. The final chapter deals with issues encountered when moving to TeamLinks from an established office system. This book is a valuable resource for established systems managers of digital office automation products as well as readers who have no established office systems and wish to know more about TeamLinks because they are interested in the possibilities of moving some or all of their user community to it.
Foreword
Preface
1 / TeamLinks: An Overview
The TeamLinks Product Family
The TeamLinks Architecture
Out-of-the-Box Components
The TeamLinks File Cabinet
TeamLinks Clients
What Version of TeamLinks should You Use?
Servers
TeamLinks-Enabled Applications
The TeamLinks Advantages
2 / Getting Started with TeamLinks
Hardware Requirements
Creating the Right Software Environment for TeamLinks
The Language Interface
Booting the PC Correctly
TeamLinks Initialization: Overview of OFFICE.INI
The PATHWORKS Connection
Establishing a Connection to the Network
Setting Up the Server for TeamLinks
Asynchronous Connections
3 / The TeamLinks File Cabinet
The Common File Cabinet
Dynamic Link Libraries Used by the Common File Cabinet
How the Staging Area is Used
DEC MAILworks Drawers
The Local File Cabinet
Importing NonMail Files into a Local Drawer
ALL-IN-1 IOS Drawers
Document Sharing
A Practical Assessment of Sharing
Tracing Cabinet Activity
4 / TeamLinks Mail
The TeamLinks Mail System
Mail Message Structure
Managing Message Storage on the Server
Using Templates to Address Messages
Setting Mail Working Conditions
New Mail Notification
Distribution Lists
The Personal Address Book
MAILbus
How a TeamLinks Message is Transported
Tracing the Path of a TeamLinks Message
Distributed Directory Services
Sending Mail to Non-MAILbus Systems
Moving from VMSmail
5 / TeamRoule
Some TeamRoute Basics
The TeamRoute Service Agent
Templates
The Internal Structure of Routing Packages
Creating and Sending a Routing Package
How a Package is Routed
Developing TeamRoute Applications
Creating a New Template
6 / Converters, Viewers, and File Formats
An Overview of Conversion
Converter Architecture
The Set of Supported Formats
Converter Update in TeamLinks V1.1
KEYpak Converters
Halcyon Converters
Tags
How TeamLinks Uses Viewers and Converters
File Formats and Associations
Converting Objects
Converting Incoming Messages
7 / Electronic Conferencing
Notes, or Just Conferencing?
Structures Used by Conferencing
Files Used by the Conferencing Client
Using a Remote Notebook
Creating a New Conference
Acting as a Moderator
Managing Conferences
Conferencing and TeamLinks
8 / Customizing TeamLinks
TeamLinks Components
Defining Customization
TeamLinks Development Tools
Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs)
Using FILECAB.DLL to Load Files into TeamLinks
Processing Documents with FILECAB.DLL
What Drawers Do I Have?
Making Some Connections
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Using TeamLinks Messaging DDE from Visual Basic
Creating a Link to a Customized Program through TeamLinks Associations
9 / Planning the Implementation
The Installation Checklist
Training
Programmer Training
The New Role for System Managers
Setting Up a Help Disk
Defining Standards for Formats and Converters
10 / Migrating from ALL-IN-1
The ALL-IN-1 Connection
Not an Overnight Job
Making the Move as a User
Accepting That Some Things will Change
Managing the Move
Moving in Groups
Maintaining Access to ALL-IN-1 Applications
Moving ALL-IN-1 to a New Role
Appendix
OFFICE.INI Explained
Mail DDE Parameters
Document Format Tags
Mail Shortcuts
Common File Cabinet Attribute Tags
Common File Cabinet Function Codes
The Mail Janitor
DDS Population
The Visual Basic Global Definitions File
Building a Time Stamp in NBS Format
Glossary
Bibliography
Trademarks
Index
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 13, 1993
- Imprint: Digital Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781555581169
- eBook ISBN: 9781483184029
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Tony Redmond
Tony Redmond is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of HP Services, the largest consulting company for enterprise-scale deployments of Microsoft technology in the world. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on Exchange Server. In his position at HP, Tony works alongside many skilled professionals who work with Fortune 1000 companies to plan, deploy, and manage technology integration to achieve business success and so lay the foundation for the best practice explained in his books. Tony writes regularly in Windows IT Pro magazine (www.windowsitpro.com) and has written ten other books for Digital Press.
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