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The Address Book Server Support Team

Address Book Server Topics

• Release Notes

Discussion Forum

As part of the process of building a community around Address Book Server we now have added a public online forum to allow users to discuss Address Book Server. Several different sections are available to discuss installation, troubleshooting and make suggestions for enhancements. Registered users can also create polls. Polls allow you to make suggestions for enhancements and allow others to vote for them. This allows us to decide which feature are most in demand and adjust our development plan accordingly. Register at :  Public Forum

Important aspects

• Sync Services and Remote Homes
• Browser Login Issue
• Access denied after upgrade
• Public / Private contacts in overlapping groups
• Merging contacts in Address Book results in data loss
• Synchronising Calendar events between private and public calendars

How To

Installation

• Where is Address Book Server installed ?
• Upgrading Address Book Server
• Uninstall Address Book Server and Client
• Integrating with existing Tomcat

Backup / Restore

• Backing up Address Book Server
• Restore Address Book Server Backup

Miscellaneous

• Restarting Address Book Server
• Accessing Log files
• Accessing the H2 Database Engine
• Reset Web Interface Password
• Automated configuration of Client
• H2 Database Upgrade / Recovery
• Remove duplicate events from database
• Import SSL certificate and key into keystore
• Useful SQL statements

Bonjour configuration

• Bonjour Overview
• Configure Bonjour on Linux
• Configure Bonjour on Windows
• Configure ABS as Windows Startup Service

Server configuration

• Changing the Network Ports
• System Properites
• Hosting multiple instances of Address Book Server on same server

Common problems

• java.lang.OutOfMemoryError during Sync
• Duplicate Groups shown in System Preferences
• AccessDenied
• Transaction Not Active / Unable to insert
• could not insert: [com.j2anywhere.addressbookserver.entities.RecordDeletion]
• Network Port Conflicts
•  Resolving Duplicate Calendars in iCal with the new MobileMe Calendar (link to : Apple Knowledge Base)
•  iCal Cleaner: Utility to remove duplicate events and clean up you iCal (link to external site)

Database Configurations

Address Book Server has the capability to support many modern database engines. Details on configuring some of them can be found here.

• MySQL Configuration
• FileMaker Configuration
• PostgreSQL Configuration
• SQL Server 2005 Configuration
• Derby Configuration
• LDAP Configuration

Integration with other applications

Address Book Server is relatively open and quite easy to integrate with. It offers integration options via a common database backend as well as SOAP services

• Mail Merge in Open Office, Pages and Microsoft Word

Suggestion / Forthcoming features

Suggestions
Forthcoming

ABCMobile - Address Book Server Mobile - iPhone Client

ABCMobile

Address Book X LDAP

Address Book X LDAP

Starting Points

• Address Book Server -- Built-in Documentation
•  Quick Start Guide -- The basic steps to get you started
•  Address Book Server Manual -- The manual for Address Book Server (currently being updated)
•  Address Book Server Support -- Address Book Server Support

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