Oracle® Calendar Administrator's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) Part Number B14472-02 |
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This chapter describes changes to administrative features in Oracle Calendar 10g Release 1 (10.1.1), and new features of Oracle Calendar application system 10g Release 1. If you are upgrading to Oracle Calendar 10g from a previous release, read the following information carefully, as there are differences in Oracle Calendar features, tools, and procedures.
The new features of Oracle Calendar server 10g include:
The new features of Oracle Calendar application system 10g include:
Oracle Calendar Web Client
Oracle Mobile Data Sync
This section describes changes to administrative features in Oracle Calendar 10g Release 1.
Control how users are automatically provisioned to the Oracle Calendar server. Choose from on-demand, bulk and notification-based provisioning models and define policies based on Oracle Internet Directory object classes.
For more information about automatic Oracle Calendar user provisioning, see the "Calendar User Account Provisioning" section in Chapter 7, "Managing Calendar User Accounts".
Deprovision Oracle Calendar user accounts using the uniuser
utility. Users that are deprovisioned from Oracle Calendar server can later be provisioned again without any loss of data.
For more information about Oracle Calendar user deprovisioning, see the "Calendar User Account Deprovisioning" section in Chapter 7, "Managing Calendar User Accounts".
Configure automatic log rotation based on size or age of log files. Logs can automatically be moved to a specified location by configuring parameters in the $ORACLE_HOME/ocal/misc/unison.ini
file. Rotated log files can also be automatically deleted based on size or age.
For more information about Oracle Calendar's automatic log rotation feature, see the "Managing Log File Rotation" section in Chapter 14, "Calendar Server Maintenance and Monitoring".
Oracle Calendar server can now automatically discover host and URL information for different components are server startup. Automatic service registry and discovery parameters can be configured in the $ORACLE_HOME/ocal/misc/unison.ini
file and are denoted by the _auto
suffix.
For more information about these parameters, see "Calendar Server Parameters" in Chapter 3 of Oracle Calendar Reference Manual.
Oracle Calendar server can now be stopped and started using Oracle Process Management and Notification (OPMN). Use the opmnctl
command with appropriate options to start, stop and check the status of the Oracle Calendar server.
For more information about starting and stopping Oracle Calendar Server using OPMN, see the "Starting and Stopping the Oracle Calendar Server" section in Chapter 5, "Introduction to Oracle Calendar Server Administration".
When deployed with Oracle Collaboration Suite, the Oracle Calendar server is now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control. If the Oracle Calendar server was not configured at the time of Oracle Collaboration Suite installation, it can now be configured from Oracle Enterprise Manager. Moreover, the Oracle Calendar administrator can now be accessed directly through a link from Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Calendar server now stores user address books in a Common Address Book (CAB) on Oracle Internet Directory. After address book migration, users will be able to access their Common Address Books from Oracle Calendar clients as well as other Oracle Collaboration Suite component clients.
For more information about the Common Address Book, see the "About the Common Address Book (CAB)" section in Chapter 6, "Using Oracle Calendar with DirectoryServers"
Oracle Calendar server can be configured to warn and protect against denial of service attacks by configuring parameters in the [ENG]
section of the $ORACLE_HOME/ocal/misc/unison.ini
file.
For more information about Oracle Calendar server security options and denial of server protection configuration, see "Securing Oracle Calendar" in Chapter 2 of Oracle Collaboration Suite Security Guide.
Use the unimem
utility to display information on memory usage.
For more information about the unimem
utility, see "Calendar Server Utilities" in Chapter 6 of Oracle Calendar Reference Manual.
Oracle Calendar server utilities no longer accept the -p option to specify the SYSOP password. A prompt now appears after every running a utility requiring the SYSOP password.
For more information about the syntax all Oracle Calendar server utilities, see "Calendar Server Utilities" in Chapter 6 of Oracle Calendar Reference Manual.
This section describes new features in Oracle Calendar application system 10g Release 1.
This section describes new features in the Oracle Calendar Web client
Search capability has been improved, and the new "Advanced Search" feature provides an even more accurate and specific way of searching for users.
More details are displayed in the Agenda views, and you can customize the level of detail you want printed and displayed.
Under Preferences, printouts can now be set to include your entries in a detailed, tabular list.
You can now choose a default Calendar view under Preferences.
You can set default start and due times for tasks, under Preferences.
Various improvements have been made to the Scheduler: Tool tips have been improved, the Scheduler grid now automatically gets populated with the most recent resource search results, user and resource names can be clicked for more information, and time slots can be clicked to see the entries they contain.
Icons can now be clicked to show more details about entries or to change the reply status for events.
The Daily List and Daily Planner are now referred to as the "List Mode" and "Planner Mode" of the Daily View. The same change applies to the Weekly List and Weekly Planner.
The Date Control Bar now includes a link to today's date.
Day Events and Daily Notes can span multiple days.
When you book a resource, you can choose to automatically fill in the "Location" field of the meeting with the name of the resource.
This section describes new features in the Oracle Mobile Data Sync.
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Oracle Mobile Data Sync now features the ability to add per instance meeting details. When you create a recurring meeting, you can now customize the details per instance, such as a meeting agenda. You can also now add personal notes to meetings that you do not own, which will be maintained on your device, even when you next synchronize with the Oracle Calendar server.
Multi-day events scheduled in Oracle Connector for Outlook will now display correctly in all Oracle Calendar clients, so that they will not appear to block off time in invitees agendas. Note that this feature is based on device capability.