Oracle® Beehive Release Notes Release 1 (1.4) Part Number E13790-07 |
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This module describes the new features and capabilities in the following Oracle Beehive releases:
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For changes made to Oracle Beehive Release Notes prior to Release 1 (1.4), please refer to Oracle Beehive Release Notes Release 1 (1.2 and 1.3).This sections describes the following features and capabilities, which were introduced in Oracle Beehive Release 1 (1.4.3):
Oracle Beehive Conferencing is a feature-rich client that enables Oracle Beehive users to conduct Web-based meetings and presentations. Oracle Beehive Conferencing provides the following features and capabilities:
Ad-hoc and scheduled meetings
Voice conferencing
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Although Oracle Beehive Conferencing supports Microsoft Windows Vista, the Oracle Beehive voice conferencing features are not yet certified for that operating system. Therefore, the quality and performance of Oracle Beehive voice conferencing on Microsoft Windows Vista is not guaranteed.Presentation management
Desktop sharing
Attendee list management
Intra-conference instant chats
Meeting alerts and requests
Oracle Beehive supports affinity toward Oracle RAC database instances, providing more efficient user sessions and balanced database workloads. Currently, database instance affinity is supported by the E-mail Service and the Event Framework only. With the E-mail Service, affinity is based on the instance associated with a user's Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) session. Support for other Oracle Beehive services and affinity types will be provided in later releases.
This sections describes the following features and capabilities, which were introduced in Oracle Beehive Release 1 (1.4.1):
Profile Migration Tool for Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook
Oracle Universal Records Management (Oracle URM) Configuration Using Oracle Beekeeper
Task Coexistence with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployments
Oracle Beehive Central is a Web-based client that provides users a central location to download supported clients and set their preferences for Oracle Beehive functionality. This includes the ability to delegate privileges for users' e-mail, calendars, tasks, notes, journals, and contacts.
Oracle Beehive Central supports Mozilla Firefox 2.0 in the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris operating systems, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 in the Windows operating system only.
Oracle Beehive Release 1 (1.4) supports integration with OpenLDAP, enabling organizations to specify OpenLDAP as the user directory for their Oracle Beehive deployments.
In addition to the download agent distribution model that it provides, Oracle Beehive enables administrators to manage and distribute the Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook installation package through Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP 2 for Windows Terminal Services. Administrators and users can also leverage Microsoft Windows Terminal Services once Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook is installed.
Oracle Beehive provides a profile migration tool for Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook, which enables users to migrate certain preferences and settings, such as LDAP settings and personal folders files (.pst) from previous Microsoft Outlook installations.
Oracle Beekeeper enables administrators to view and configure aspects of integrations with Oracle Universal Records Management (Oracle URM). This includes the ability to configure the connection to Oracle URM and viewing file plans.
For Oracle Beehive deployments that are integrated with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, users can create, view, and manage tasks in both Oracle Beehive and Microsoft Outlook. This includes assigning tasks to users hosted by either system.
Oracle Beehive Release 1 (1.4) supports Clickatell as a certified provider of its Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) services.
Oracle Beehive supports "actionable notifications", that is, notifications on which users can take action directly in a supported client or device.
Oracle Beehive automatically creates groups in users' address books based on their managers and peers, and their direct reports, where appropriate. This eliminates the need for users to manually create their own groups based on these memberships.