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Colligo Contributor™ is an easy-to-deploy .NET client-only application - no server modifications are required. The installer package is under 10 MB in size. Colligo Contributor for SharePoint is IT-department friendly. It supports customized installations and can be deployed using your choice of deployment tools. Learn more about your installation and configurations options below.

"As a light client-only solution, Colligo Contributor was easy to deploy. It was
as easy as click, click, done." Sergio Rodriguez, Global IT Manager at AAXICO
 View the AAXICO Case Study Here

Your Colligo Contributor™ Deployment

Installation & Configuration

EXE Installer - the simple installer package is an executable file. It's key features follow:

  • Interactive install only - does not support silent install
  • Automatically installs software prerequisites (downloaded from www.colligo.com)
  • Not customizable

MSI Installer - Contributor also provides an MSI installer package, with these features:

  • Supports silent and interactive installs
  • Does not install prerequisites - these must be downloaded and pre-installed
  • Customizable

By providing a customizable MSI installer package, Colligo make it easy for IT-teams to deploy Contributor throughout their organization using industry standard deployment tools such as MS-SMS. Simply customize the MSI database, deploy the pre-requisites, and deploy Contributor. Click here for more details on the Contributor system requirements. 

Colligo features a Configuration Editor - a tool that streamlines the management of registry settings (which modify Contributor operations and features). It makes it easy to configure and deploy Colligo Contributor. The tool can be found under the Colligo Contributor program group in the Windows launch bar. It provides information on the settings, their purpose, and possible values. Read the Configuration Editor guide here.

Product Activation
Silent activation options enables easier, faster deployments on large scale implementations. End users are not required to manually activate. Administrators can use the MSI installer to specify a set of information (e.g. email, organization) to automatically perform the activation.

SharePoint Security & Privileges
Contributor accesses SharePoint through well documented web-services. You define the security policy on your SharePoint site and the security defined in SharePoint is respected by the web-services. So Contributor only provides your users with access to business information based on their specific privileges. Contributor works with secure sites requiring http(s) connections.

Customize Synchronization Patterns to Your Preferences
Contributor performs file-wise differential synchronization. Synchronization can be initialized by user-actions and/or based on configured intervals. By customizing these settings, IT can set synchronization patterns to suit their user needs and mobility profiles.

Options Window   Simple User-centric Configuration
The options panel allows users to easily modify these configuration options:
  • Prompt for properties when adding documents
  • Storage Location
  • Synchronize on startup
  • Synchronize when list is viewed
  • Synchronize when list is modified
  • Enable background synchronization
  • Background synchronization interval

IT can set default values for the options at install-time, or, post-install by pushing out registry settings. Further, IT can lock any of the configuration options, or disable access to the configuration panel altogether.

Configure the Contributor Cache
To provide offline access, Contributor caches content on the user's computer. You can:

  • Specify storage location path, including the use of system variables like %userprofile%
  • Index the storage using Windows Desktop Search (for XP) and Instant Search (Vista)
  • Encrypt the storage using Windows Encrypting File System to provide FIPS compliant encryption

Communications
Contributor uses only http(s) protocols for its communications - no special firewall configuration is required.

  • Communication with SharePoint uses standard web-service
  • Web-service calls all over the common http or http(s) protocols
  • Web-proxy settings are configurable
  • Users can work through WAN/VPN and/or Wireless connections

Site Config File   Central Management of Synched Content
Central IT teams can easily manage content for selection - so Contributor can be deployed with multiple SharePoint sites pre-configured for synchronization.
  • Scripting for adding or removing sites and lists from Contributor
  • Content selection and default metadata values can be defined in an XML site-config-file
  • Select a library, list, view, folder, or entire sites
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