Zentyal Office¶

This section explains some of the services offered by Zentyal as an office server. In particular; its ability to manage network users in a centralised way, the sharing of files and printers, as well as groupware services such as sharing calendars, contacts, tasks, and so on.

Directory services allow you to manage user permissions within an organisation in a centralised way. Meaning that users can authenticate into the network securely. Also, you can define a hierarchical structure controlling the access to the organisation’s resources. Finally, thanks to the master/slave architecture integrated within Zentyal, centralised user management can be applied to large organisations with multiple network locations.

File sharing and establishing access control for users and groups, is one of the most important features of an office server and it greatly eases workgroup documents access in an intuitive way. Security policy allows the protection of critical files within an organisation.

Sharing printers, using user and group permissions is also a very important service in any organisation, since this allows you to optimise the resources usage and availability.

Finally, it is becoming increasingly important to use a system to help coordinate the daily work of employees within an organisation. For this, Zentyal integrates a groupware tool which facilitates the sharing of information such as calendars, tasks, addresses and so forth.