Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide

This page gives a high-level overview of the contents and intended audience of the Meridian Enterprise Administrator's Guide. The guide is available here in the Meridian Technical Library and as a PDF download. Click here to access the list of PDFs available for Meridian Enterprise 2021 R3.

We encourage you to use this website when you need to refer to the Meridian Enterprise documentation. We make regular updates to expand and improve our documentation. Click here to see the most recent updates to the Technical Library.

ClosedWhat's In This Guide

This guide describes the system requirements, licensing, installation, and administration of Meridian Enterprise. Usage of the Meridian clients is documented in the Meridian Enterprise User's Guide. Configuration of Meridian vaults is documented in the Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide.

This guide includes the following information:

  • Instructions on surveying your computing environment to confirm that it can adequately support Meridian.

  • Explanations of the purposes of the various services and other components that make up a Meridian system.

  • Step-by-step instructions for the Meridian installation process on server and client computers, installing different options, and installing software upgrades.

  • How Meridian licensing works, how to install licenses, and how to best manage licenses.

  • Everything you need to create and maintain Meridian vaults.

  • Your guide to emergency preparedness.

  • How to create Meridian users and groups for configuring document workflow definitions and project workflow definitions.

  • How Meridian security roles work together with vaults.

  • How to configure document content indexing so users can search for text contained within documents.

  • Guidelines for getting the best performance out of your Meridian system.

  • Details of how Meridian works with Microsoft SQL Server as its vault database engine.

  • Details of how Meridian works with Oracle as its vault database engine.

  • How the Meridian local workspace improves client-side performance and how to optimize it.

  • Networking topics relevant to Meridian operation and performance.

  • Useful tips that can improve Meridian performance.

  • Setup overview and installation steps for Meridian PowerWeb server administration.

  • Important supplemental information.

ClosedWho Should Read This Guide

This guide is intended for Meridian server administrators. Readers should be familiar with, and have experience in:

  • General computing concepts

  • Microsoft Windows® server and workstation operating systems administration

  • Microsoft Windows networks

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services administration

  • Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database administration

  • the Meridian Enterprise User's Guide

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