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What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding Alfresco, gives you a thorough understanding of Alfresco's architecture and its features.

Chapter 2, Setting Up the Alfresco Environment, explains the various installation processes of Alfresco in different application servers. It also provides details of best practices and troubleshooting for the environment setup.

Chapter 3, Alfresco Configuration, explains the ways in which Alfresco can be configured to suit business needs. It gives you a detailed understanding of the different components of Alfresco and how they can be configured.

Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco, explains how the Alfresco repository can be administered. It provides you with detailed steps for the administration of the repository and the functions it can perform. The chapter gives you a thorough understanding of the administration console, users and group creation processes, node browsers, and so on.

Chapter 5, Search, focuses on the search component of Alfresco. It will provide you with a detailed insight into the installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the search server Solr.

Chapter 6, Permissions and Security, explores the details of the permissions required in the Alfresco repository. It provides you with an understanding about the different types of permissions and roles in Alfresco and how to integrate with different third-party authentication tools.

Chapter 7, High Availability in Alfresco, explores the different ways in which the Alfresco system can be made highly available. It covers the different methods of clustering Alfresco and its backup and recovery process as well as troubleshooting Alfresco's clustered environment.

Chapter 8, The Basics of the Alfresco Content Store, explains how Alfresco actually stores content. The content life cycle is discussed in detail in this chapter as well as the database structure in Alfresco.

Chapter 9, Maintenance and Troubleshooting, covers how to monitor and manage the Alfresco system in production using JMX and other tools. It also provides details about different ways to troubleshoot Alfresco. You will also learn about different audit trails in Alfresco for the purpose of better administration.

Chapter 10, Upgrade, explains how Alfresco can be upgraded from one version to another. It provides detailed steps in order to understand the process of upgrading.