Laserfiche 8.1 includes many new features to help you manage and use your Laserfiche Servers and repositories. Several of those features are aimed at making administration easier and more powerful. This tip will explore two of the upcoming Laserfiche 8.1 administrative features.

• Note: The following describes features for a pre-release version of the Laserfiche Server. Details of features may be changed before final release of the product.

LDAP Authentication Support

Since Laserfiche 7, the Server has supported adding Windows domain accounts directly to Laserfiche for authentication, allowing users to log in to the repository using their Windows credentials. In Laserfiche 8.1, we are expanding this authentication support to other LDAP directory services. This will allow administrators who are using non-Windows LDAP, such as Novell, to add directory users and groups directly to Laserfiche. Those users will be able to log in to their repository using their LDAP account name and password.

This support will extend to all parts of the Laserfiche Server and Client that currently support Laserfiche trustees or Windows accounts. For instance, you will be able to configure security for these directory users and groups, audit them, and assign watermarks to them. You will also be able to use them as Named Accounts with Laserfiche Rio or Avante.

Compressed and Encrypted Volumes

Laserfiche 8.1 introduces two new settings that you can use for archival volumes: compression and encryption. Volume compression decreases the amount of space that the volume takes on the hard drive. Volume encryption protects the volume by encrypting its contents on the Windows file system. An encrypted volume’s contents can still be viewed through Laserfiche client applications (assuming the user accessing the volume files has the appropriate rights), but cannot be opened directly through Windows. Furthermore, encrypted volumes can be further protected by being secured. A secured volume’s contents cannot be viewed by anyone until an administrator unlocks the secured volumes.

Volume encryption and compression are primarily intended for archival volumes, or for volumes that are being exported for transfer or for backup, as encrypting or compressing a volume also renders it read-only.

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Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 at 2:36 pm under Support, UserNews. You can comment on this post.