Installing and Configuring Oracle Beehive Clients (whitepaper)

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING ORACLE BEEHIVE CLIENTS
A White Paper prepared by Raastech
Author
Ahmed Aboulnaga
Copyright
Raastech 2010

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INTRODUCTION
Oracle Beehive offers a unified platform for all collaboration needs and provides a rich set of
collaboration tools. Various collaboration services offered by the Beehive platform include:
 Content Management Services
 Discussions Service
 Email Service
 Instant Messaging Service
 Time Management Service
 Voice Messaging Service
To effectively use the services provided by the Beehive platform, various Beehive clients need
to be installed on the client desktop.
This white paper describes the client installation and configuration on Microsoft Windows, and
is specific to Oracle Beehive 1.4.3.0.0.
These instructions leverage Oracle Beehive Central, which is a web-based client that provides
users a central location to download supported clients and delegate permissions to other users
for their email, calendars, tasks, notes, journals, and contacts.
The following client configurations described in this white paper include:
1. Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook (OBIO)
2. Oracle Beehive Conferencing Client
3. Oracle Beehive FTP Client

ORACLE BEEHIVE INTEGRATION FOR OUTLOOK
To integrate Oracle Beehive with Microsoft Outlook, it involves three steps:
1. Install the Beehive client.
2. Configure an Outlook mail account against the Beehive server.
3. Configure the Microsoft Outlook client.
Installing the Beehive Client
1. Download the client from the following link off of the Beehive Central server:
http://<hostname>/bcentral/home.jsp?page=downloadobiowin
2. Click on “Download for Windows”. Save the Installer file to your local hard drive.
3. Start the installer by clicking “Run”.

4. The installer will prompt for the Beehive server name, as well as the Beehive account
name and password.
5. The next screenshot shows the installation in progress (no action needed).
Setting up an Outlook E-Mail Account
1. Based on your version of Microsoft Windows, the ‘Mail Setup’ page is accessed via one
of the following paths:
Control Panel  Mail (for Microsoft Windows XP)
Control Panel  User Account  Mail (for Microsoft Windows Vista/7)

2. Click on “Show Profiles”.
3. Select the “Beehive” profile and click on “Properties”. Then on the Mail Setup window,
click on “Email Accounts”.

4. The “Email Accounts” wizard opens up. Select “View or Change existing e-mail accounts”
and click “Next >”.
5. Click on “Change”.

6. In the Service Settings window:
a. “Account Name” field, enter your email address and in the “Password” field
enter your password.
b. Check the “Remember Server Password” option.
c. Click on “Check Names”. This should update rest of the fields with details fetched
from server.
d. Click on “More Settings”.

7. Check the “Direct Connection” checkbox and click on “Apply” to apply the changes.

Configuring the Microsoft Outlook Client
1. Open Microsoft Outlook and select the “Beehive” profile.
2. Add team workspaces navigating to “Tools  Workspaces  Manage Workspace”.
3. A list of team workspaces which you are a member of is displayed. Select a workspace
and click on “Add” to have it automatically added to and accessed from Outlook.

4. Outlook should look like this, with your email and workspaces accessible from the
navigation pane.

ORACLE BEEHIVE CONFERENCING CLIENT
Beehive supports instant messaging clients that include Oracle Messenger, Pidgin, and Trillian.
These instructions describe how to download and install the Beehive Conferencing Client.
Installing the Beehive Client
1. Download the client from the following link off of the Beehive Central server:
http://<hostname>/bcentral/home.jsp?page=downloadbeetubewin
2. Run the installer and follow the step-by-step instructions. No additional configuration is
required.
ORACLE BEEHIVE FTP CLIENT
Per the Beehive documentation, supported FTP clients include FileZilla 2.x, NCFTP 3.2.6,
SmartFTP 2.5.0, and Transmit 3.5.0.
Installing and Configuring a Beehive FTP Client
1. Install an FTP client of your choice.
2. Use the following settings:
Site Name / Hostname <your beehive server>
Port 2121 (or whatever port that was configured)
Username <your beehive email address>
Password <your beehive password>

REFERENCES
Oracle Beehive Administrator’s Guide Release 1 (1.4)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13789_01/bh.100/e13797.pdf
Oracle Beehive End-User Information Release 1 (1.4)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13789_01/bh.100/e13802.pdf
About Raastech:
Raastech specializes in information technology development and systems integration. Founded in 2009, Raastech provides management
consulting, systems development, and integration to both federal agencies and commercial organizations. We provide value to our clients by
being innovative and dependable partners in achieving their objectives. For more information, please visit http://www.raastech.com.
About the Author:
Ahmed Aboulnaga is a Technical Director at Raastech and has extensive experience in Oracle Fusion Middleware. He has been involved in the
architecting and implementation of large scale systems involving middleware technologies such as Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Application
Integration Architecture, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Integration B2B, Oracle Identity Management, and numerous other Oracle middleware
technologies.
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