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Chapter 1: Overview
Adobe® Contribute® CS3 is a website editor that lets people connect to departmental and other websites so that they
can update web page content. Administrative assistants, product managers, human resource managers, and other
people in an organization can use Contribute to update their team website without having to contact a web team or
other departmental resources.
For larger organizations, you can optionally use Adobe® Contribute® Publishing Server (CPS) with Contribute. CPS
is a user management and publishing solution that lets Contribute administrators manage large groups of
Contribute users and monitor what those users do on the website.
This chapter, intended for website administrators and IT professionals, gives you valuable information you need
before you deploy Contribute, and optionally CPS, in an organization. It explains the Contribute user management
models for using Contribute alone or with CPS, shows scenarios for setting up Contribute in a variety of IT environ-
ments, and lists the people and the various tasks involved in successfully deploying Contribute.
• "Understanding Contribute user management models" on page 1
• "Common website configurations" on page 4
• "Deployment roles and responsibilities" on page 8
• "Deployment tasks checklist" on page 9
Understanding Contribute user management models
User management lets you add and remove user access to websites and create user roles that restrict editing privi-
leges in a site. User management also provides a mechanism that lets users easily connect to a website.
Contribute has two user management models: manual site connections using Contribute only and managed site
connections using Contribute plus the CPS User Directory service.
let you communicate connection information to users, who then create their own connections,
Manual connections
either by entering connection information in the Connection Wizard or by importing a connection-key file that you
give them.
This user model works best for smaller workgroups and organizations. It allows you to quickly set up Contribute,
create a connection to your website, define the necessary user roles, generate connection information for the website
connection and user role, and send the information to users in the form of a connection-key file.
lets you use CPS to integrate Contribute with your organization's LDAP or Active Directory
Managed connections
services, letting you add and remove user access to a website and modify user roles without having to resend
connection-key files to users. You can also create a file-based database, using an XML file to manually enter user
names and passwords.
CPS is intended for larger organizations that have several Contribute users to manage. CPS lets you add and remove
users from websites and roles without having to resend connection information. When you create a connection to
a website that uses CPS, you add users to a list that grants access to a given website and user role. When users access
the website, CPS prompts them for a user name and password. After they enter their user name and password, they
are granted access to the website and the role you've assigned to them.
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