Mitel Welcome to your SME Server V5 with ServiceLink, About This Guide, Production, History

Chapter 1. Welcome to your SME Server V5 with ServiceLink

Congratulations on choosing the SME Server V5 with ServiceLink as your communications server!

Companies all over the world are using the Internet to communicate more effectively and efficiently to a broader audience. The SME Server V5 with ServiceLink is founded upon state of the art technologies - such as the Linux operating system - which have been mainstays in the infrastructure of larger organizations for several years. Mitel Networks Corporation has customized these technologies to make them straightforward to use, while still giving you local control over your Internet services. The result is a cost-effective Internet infrastructure that will reliably serve your organization as it grows and as its use of the Internet evolves.

In keeping with our commitment to open source software, we encourage you to share this software with your friends and colleagues. Mitel Networks Corporation and its Authorized Partners provide reasonably priced services, including technical support, to those organizations wanting the comfort of knowing that expert help is available when needed. Contact us at +1-888-ESMITH-1 or

+1-613-564-8000, or visit our website, http://www.e-smith.com/, for a list of Authorized Partners and for more information about support options, reseller programs and the worldwide community of server developers and customers.

1.1. About This Guide

This user's guide walks you step-by-step through the straightforward process of installing and configuring your SME Server V5 with ServiceLink. The Appendices in the back of the guide provide background information on subjects related to networking and the Internet and are intended to supplement chapters in the main section of the user's guide.

1.1.1. Production

We created this user's guide using Docbook (http://docbook.org/) on the Linux operating system. Images were created using The GIMP (http://gimp.org/).

The HTML version of this manual was generated from DocBook XML using libxslt (http://www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT/) with customized XSLT stylesheets. More information about our documentation process is available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/ Most of the editing was done by Dan York and Kirrily "Skud" Robert using the vim (http://www.vim.org/) editor.

1.1.2. History

•August 2001 - First print edition of the SME Server V5 with ServiceLink user's guide published by Mitel Networks Corporation. Also published online in HTML and DocBook XML/SGML. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.0/ Primary author/editor Dan York.

•February 13, 2001 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.1 published online in HTML and DocBook SGML by e-smith, inc. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/ Primary author/editor Dan York.

•December 4, 2000 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.0 published online in HTML and DocBook SGML by e-smith, inc. Available at http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.0/

•July 2000 - e-smith server and gateway user's manual for version 4.0 published in print form by e-smith, inc. PDF and PostScript versions also made available via FTP at ftp://ftp.e-smith.net/pub/e-smith/e-smith-4.0/. Primary author/editor Ross Laver using StarOffice 5.1.

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