The IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business contains a fully functional deployment of Domino® server, including the Domino HTTP server and LDAP directory preinstalled with 85 users from the fictitious Renovations company.

Welcome to IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business on the SoftLayer - your instant access to three leading products in social software - Connections, Domino®, and Sametime®.

Before you can use IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business, provision an instance of the image and configure it to your account on SoftLayer

Learn how to connect to your instance with PuTTY, a free program for connecting Microsoft® Windows® computers to remote systems using Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH).

You can use Secure Shell (SSH) tools to move data in and out of your instance on the IBM® SoftLayer

WinSCP is an open source FTP client used for transferring files between local and remote computers. First, you must download the client, then you can securely connect to your instance.

Use these step-by-step instructions to set up an account. Developers are required to have a registered account before they can access the IBM® SoftLayer. You can view your account information on the Account page.

The IBM® SoftLayer is a dynamically provisioned and scaled elastic environment that provides enterprise developers with everything they need to code, test their applications, and deploy the developed code into the Cloud.

IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business contains a fully functional deployment of Sametime® Standard community server and proxy server and a set of scripts to stop and start the servers.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a system for accessing and controlling programs from a remote computer. First, you must install VNC, then you can connect to it.

Use the links to these topics as additional resources that you might find helpful when creating applications with your instance of IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business.

Learn which image components are installed with IBM® Connections, locations of component directories, scripts for starting and stopping Connections and management commands.

Use the welcome page of your instance of IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business to get started creating social applications. This page contains direct links to the social components that are included with the image, links to product documentation, communities, websites, and ...

IBM® Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business is a Linux-based image that is hosted on the Softlayer. The following graphic shows the products and components that are installed in the image:

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Learn how to access the welcome page and connect to your instance using various applications.

The image is preinstalled with 85 user profiles, including names, email addresses, and more. There is a list on the user IDs tab of the welcome page. You can access the Domino® LDAP directory to manage these attributes. Note that user images are stored in IBM® Connections.