Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

    Hello Brad,
    
    >Is there any way to authorize access to conferences using ALL-IN-1
    >groups rather than individual user names?
    
    When the conferences are on the same node as ALL-IN-1 it
    should be doable by "direct notes access" using the group
    identifier in the ACL of the conferences.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jan
          
    See the VAX Notes STARS article titled:

    A Discussion Of VAX Notes Conference Security

    Personally I wouldn't recommend allowing direct access to a conference
    locally under any circumstances, since it allows a (admittedly reasonably
    sophisticated) user to wreak havoc!
    
    Better (IMHO) would be to write a script to go through the Group and
    add the members from it, checking if they already exist. I suppose
    you'd have to do a reverse scan through the members and check if they
    had been removed form the group too...
    
    Graham
    
    PS I've removed the STARS article from the previous note, and just left
    a pointer to it.

    Hi, I have a few questions..
    1. How does one access Vax Notes STARS articles and..
    2. What is a good technical reference that will tell me the
    capabilities of Conferencing within ALL-IN-1 IOS?  My customer is
    considering using conferencing and I don't know if it is robust 
    enough to meet their specific needs.
    
    They will be scanning in documents averaging 25 pages (they approximate
    2000 bytes)  and may have up to 1000 different conferencs containing
    these scanned doucments.  Can we give them an indication of how much
    disk space we feel this could total?   Also, they will want to limit 
    access to conferences but also offer specific users access to many or
    groups of users access to many.  Is there a way to add groups of users
    to multiple conferences?  How enhanced is the Conferencing Management
    Utility? Is there one at all.
    As you can tell, I am not an ALL-IN-1 IOS Conferencing user.  Hopefully
    someone can answer the above questions and elaborate on where I can
    get more information to scope out the feasibility of the project.
    THANKS!!!
    

re: .3

>    2. What is a good technical reference that will tell me the
>    capabilities of Conferencing within ALL-IN-1 IOS?  My customer is
>    considering using conferencing and I don't know if it is robust 
>    enough to meet their specific needs.

You could try the ALL-IN-1 User Guide.  Also Tony Redmond's first book
(A Technical Odyssey; Digital Press EY-H952E-DP) has a section on it.
    
>    They will be scanning in documents averaging 25 pages (they approximate
>    2000 bytes)  and may have up to 1000 different conferencs containing
>    these scanned doucments.  Can we give them an indication of how much
>    disk space we feel this could total?

With notes that size I would expect the overhead to be fairly small.  I
would just do the arithmetic and add about 10% but that is just an 
educated guess.

>    Also, they will want to limit 
>    access to conferences but also offer specific users access to many or
>    groups of users access to many.  Is there a way to add groups of users
>    to multiple conferences?

With restricted conferences you can limit the access to a certain set
of accounts.  As Graham said in .2 it would be possible to write a script
to register the accounts in the conference (assuming you wanted to
automate this).  There is no problem with users having access to
multiple restricted conference.

I hope this helps,

John