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<title>About this guide</title>
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    <para>This guide describes how to get started with eXo Platform 3.5, especially for:</para>
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          <emphasis role="bold">System Administrators</emphasis> who want to use, deploy and manage the eXo Platform system in their enterprises.</para>
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          <emphasis role="bold">Developers</emphasis> who want to know how to leverage eXo Platform in their customer projects.</para>
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<para>Through the guide, you can do many administrative tasks when implementing eXo Platform 3.5. The administration of eXo Platform 3.5 is categorized into the following main topics:</para>
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<link linkend="ADM.Installation_and_Startup">Installation and Startup</link>: Knowledge of how to install the Tomcat bundle and JBoss EARs and information of eXo Platform profiles.
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<link linkend="ADM.Configuration">Configuration</link>: Understanding of configuration related to eXo Platform, database, cache, users and gadget proxy, file system paths, mail server, WebDAV Cache Control, Chat Server, OpenOffice Server, Log-in, JCR.|
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<link linkend="ADM.Management">Management</link>: Introduction to eXo Platform management, knowledge of eXo Platform management views.
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<link linkend="ADM.Security">Security</link>: Changes related to the JAAS realm.
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<link linkend="ADM.Backup">Backup and Restore</link>: Backup of database and file systems for the JCR index and value storage.
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<link linkend="ADM.Clustering">Clustering</link>: Changes related to clustering, which are necessary for eXo Platform to work in the cluster mode.
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<link linkend="ADM.Deployment">Deployment</link>: How-Tos of removing sample applications, deploying a custom extension, setting up Apache Front-end and configuring the session timeout for the web server.
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<link linkend="ADM.Integration">Organization Integration</link>: Instructions on how to connect eXo Platform to a populated data source, such as LDAP server, MS ActiveDirectory, or Database.
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