Enfold Server
- Warning
- This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.
Enfold Server is an open source version of Plone which is optimized for Windows networks. Enfold Server enables Plone in your enterprise by integrating easily with your existing infrastructure investment.
Project Description
Key Features:
- Easily connect to your existing Active Directory database to manage user accounts and privileges.
- Streamline the user experience by eliminating extra login boxes with built-in support for Microsoft's single sign-on protocol.
- Choose from among several preset caching profiles to optimize performance with a proxy Web server.
- Use automatic cache purging to ensure visitors see the latest content. (requires Enfold Proxy)
- Save commonly used documents as file templates for faster creation of new content.
- Take advantage of the preinstalled Enfold Desktop server component to give users access to the full Desktop feature set.
- MS Office and PDFs documents added by users to the Plone web site can become instantly searchable. If MS Office is already installed on the server, MS Office docs uploaded through Plone will be automatically indexed. You can install an extension to make PDFs searchable too.
- Clean up locked content and manage locking policies with the lock manager tool.
- Diagnose search issues with the IFilter test tool.
- Provides Zadoa ADO Database Adapter which lets you connect to SQL databases via ODBC or directly to an ADO source.
Integration with Enfold Proxy and Enfold Desktop
The server product has been tested to work with Enfold Proxy, a proxying/caching manager for IIS and Enfold Desktop, a tool for uploading multiple items from Windows Explorer.
Good Documentation
This product includes exhaustive documentation, including troubleshooting information, best practices and tips for setting up user authentication.
Enfold has an issue tracker for Enfold Server issues. Enfold also offers Service Level agreements for organizations seeking one. (read more ).Professional installation support
Current Release
Enfold Server 5.0
Released May 12, 2010 — tested with Plone 3
5.0 version of Enfold Server is the FINAL release of our "Plone for Windows" distribution. It utilizes the buildout mechanism, and is intended to provide current Enfold Server customers a simpler migration path to the core Plone platform.
The Enfold Server Windows installer is a buildout-based version of Plone 3.3.x with the tools and features previously available in Enfold Server. Please note: this installer no longer includes the installation wizard and “encontrol” management interface.
More about this release…
-
Get
Enfold Server
for
Windows
- 5.0 Enfold Server Download Page (Windows + Buildout)
- If you are using Plone 3.2 or higher, you probably want to install this product with buildout. See our tutorial on installing add-on products with buildout for more information.
All Releases
| Version | Released | Description | Compatibility | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | May 12, 2010 | 5.0 version of Enfold Server is the FINAL release of our "Plone for Windows" distribution. It utilizes the buildout mechanism, and is intended to provide current Enfold Server customers a simpler migration path to the core Plone platform. The Enfold Server Windows installer is a buildout-based version of Plone 3.3.x with the tools and features previously available in Enfold Server. Please note: this installer no longer includes the installation wizard and “encontrol” management interface. More about this release… |
Plone 3
|
final |
| 4.5 | Jan 21, 2009 | Free upgrade for active subscription customers. Enfold Server is the commercial distribution of Plone, optimized for Windows networks. Enfold Server enables Plone in your enterprise by integrating easily with your existing infrastructure investment. More about this release… |
Plone 3
|
final |
| 3.0 | Mar 21, 2007 | Enfold Server 3 is faster, more stable and more flexible. More about this release… | final | |
| 2.9.1 | Oct 30, 2006 | Users will find important security and bug fixes and a new version of Plone in the new version of Enfold Server, Version 2.9.1. More about this release… | final |

