Zentyal Office¶

This section will explain some of the services offered by Zentyal as an office server, in particular its ability to manage network users in a centralized way, the sharing files and printers, as well as groupware services such as sharing calendars, contacts, tasks, etc..

Directory services allow you to manage user permissions within an organization in a centralized manner. In this way, users can authenticate to the network securely. Also, you can define a hierarchical structure controlling the access to organization resources. Finally, thanks to the master/slave architecture integrated in Zentyal, centralized user management can be applied to large organizations with multiple locations.

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

Likewise, sharing printers, using user and group permissions is also a very important service in any organization, since it allows you to optimize the resources usage and availability.

Finally, it is becoming increasingly important to have a system to help coordinate the daily work of employees in an organization. For this, Zentyal integrates a groupware tool that facilitates the sharing of information such as calendars, tasks, addresses, etc.