Global Open Versity ICT Labs Step-By-Step Install Guide Alfresco 3.3g with on Windows Server v1.

Global Open Versity

IT System Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual

Step-By-Step Install Guide Alfresco Community 3.3g

with Google Docs on Windows
Kefa Rabah
Global Open Versity, Vancouver Canada
krabah@globalopenversity.org
www.globalopenversity.org

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STEP-BY-STEP INSTALL GUIDE ALFRESCO COMMUNITY 3.3G WITH GOOGLE

DOCS ON WINDOWS 2
1.0 Introduction 2

Part 1: Install Windows AD Server 2k3 3

Step 1: Install Win2k3 AD 3
Step 2: Configure & Setup DNS Server 3

Part 2: Install Alfresco Community 3.3g Edition 4

Part 3: Create your collaboration site 18

Part 4: Using Google DocsTM with Alfresco 19

Introduction 19
Step 1: Alfresco and Google Docs™ 20
1. How to Use the Google DocsTM Integration 20
2. Creating an Item with the Content Wizard 21
Step 3: Creating Documents using Alfresco Share 21
Step 4: Modify your Existing Documents 24

Part 4: Need More Training on Linux: 25

Web Content Management Training 25

Part 5: Hands-on Lab Assignments 25

Windows Servers Administration Training 26

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Global Open Versity

IT Systems Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual

Step-By-Step Install Guide Alfresco Community 3.3g

with Google Docs on Windows
By Kefa Rabah, krabah@globalopenversity.org July 9, 2010 GTS Institute

1.0 Introduction
Alfresco is the Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), providing Document
Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management
and Imaging. Alfresco reduces your ECM costs by up to 96% compared to proprietary systems like
Documentum, Open Text and SharePoint. It's as simple to use as a shared drive or SharePoint and does
not lock you business in to a proprietary stack.

Alfresco (Community Edition 3.3g) has now implementation for Google Docs™ integration, that makes,
use of Google Docs™ seem more natural than the use of traditional desktop applications. The increasing
market demand for and adoption of Alfresco and Google Docs™ has made an intersection of the two
solutions immanent. True to the character of the company and culture of the community, Alfresco
recognized the need, identified the value, and delivered a solution with great success.

Windows Server 2003 AD: is a central component of the Windows platform, Active Directory directory
service provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up network
environments. Windows Server 2003 makes Active Directory simpler to manage, easing migration and
deployment. It’s now been replaced with Windows Server 2008. Active directory has been around since
the release of Windows 2000 several years ago, and is now a standard sight in many offices. Its inclusion
marked a radical change at the heart of the Windows Server platform, one that people are still adjusting to
today. In this hands-on training session Exchange Server 2003 has been installed on Widows server 2003
for our messaging solutions. You have the option to install Windows Server 2008 with Exchange Server
2007 for your lab training sessions. Finally, we’ll use the clean install Windows server to install Alfresco
Community Edition 3.3g for your Web Content Management.

Hands-on Labs Training: - In this Hands-on Lab session, you’ll learn how to setup virtual network on
VMware (you may also use any other virtual machines like MS VirtualPC, Linux Xen, or VirtualBox from
Oracle). In this lab session, we’ll concentrate on installing Alfresco on a clean install Windows Server
2003 AD DC. You will learn how to DNS server for your AD solutions. I’ll also show you how to setup
static IP address which is required for deploying a DNS server. Finally, we’ll go through a step-by-step
process to install Alfresco Community 3.3 Edition on our Windows server 2003 AD. Next, you’ll learn how
to integrate Google Docs™ with Alfresco to deploy documents for anywhere anytime access. You’ll also
have opportunity to do some assignment at the end of the lab session. Upon completion of this hands-on
lab you’ll have gained a competency level and a capability to be able to plan design implement and deploy
ECM solution using Alfresco on Windows Server as desired.

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Part 1: Install Windows AD Server 2k3

In this Hands-on Labs, it’s assumed that your target computer is connected to the internet. After installing
the operating system, log into your machine and ensure you perform software updates to bring your
systems up-to-date.

Step 1: Install Win2k3 AD

It’s assumed that you have already installed Windows AD 2k3 or know how to install Win 2k3 AD. If not
then head to Docstoc.com and check out an excellent article by the same author entitled "Install Windows
Server 2003 Active Directory HowTo v1.0", to get you started.

1. Our Win2k3 AD DC configuration is as follows:

• LDAP Server: server03.govtestlabs.com

• Domain: govtestlabs.com
• Bases DN: dc=govtestlabs,dc=com

IP Address: 192.168.83.5

2. It’s also assumed that you have already installed Exchange Server 2003 on Windows server 2k3 or
know how to install Exchange server 2k3. If not then go ahead and check out an excellent article here
to get you started.

3. For those interested in using Windows server 2008 AD and Exchange Server 2007 - It’s also assumed
that they have already installed Exchange Server 2007 on Windows server 008 or know how to install
Exchange server 2007. If not then go ahead and check out an excellent article here to get you started.

4. You’re done with section

Step 2: Configure & Setup DNS Server

1. Before setting up DNS server, do ensure that you have configured your network interface to static IP
address, in our case IP address is set to: 192.168.83.5.

2. When done with DNS server setup, open a new terminal window and test that your DNS server is
configured correctly using "nslookup" commands, as shown in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 1

3. We’re done setting up and testing our DNS Server.

Part 2: Install Alfresco Community 3.3g Edition

You may download & install latest stable Alfresco Lab version as usual, by performing the following
procedure:

1. Download latest Alfresco Community 3.3g Edition from official Alfresco website:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Community_Edition

2. At the time of writing this hands-on lab manual, it was version: "Alfresco-Community-3.3g-Full-
Setup.exe" to your download folder.

3. You’ll be prompted to RUN the software twice, on both occasions, click RUN to start downloading and
installing the software.

4. From Fig. 2, Language Selection screen, select your desired language and click OK to continue.

Fig. 3

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5. From Fig. 3, Install Alfresco Community Edition screen, read the alert info, and then click on the
Yes button to accept installation.

Fig. 3

6. From Fig. 4, Welcome to the InstallJammer Wizard for Alfresco Community Edition screen, read
the info, and then click Next to continue.

Fig. 4

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7. From Fig. 5, Select Type screen, select Custom, and then click Next to continue.

Fig. 5

Note 1: The Typical option selects the components required for a typical Alfresco installation. This
includes:

• Default Component (includes DM)

• Java
• OpenOffice
• WCM
• SharePoint Protocol
• MySQL database

Note 2: If you wish to install the Records Management or Quickr Connector Support
components, choose the Custom option. Do ensure that the required component is selected, and then
click Next.

Note 3: By default, Alfresco installs an embedded MySQL database instance, which is installed locally
in the Alfresco directory. However, if you already have an existing MySQL database on your machine,
you will be prompted to specify an alternative database port after the installation starts.

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8. From Fig. 6, Select Components screen, accept the default selection, and then click Next.

Fig. 6

9. From Fig. 7, Choose Destination Location screen, Accept he default selection, click Next.

Fig. 7

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10. From Fig. 8, Start Copying Files screen, click Next to continue.

Fig. 8

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