Bill Arconati's first Atlassian Enterprise Confluence Webinar. This semi-annual webinar series is focused on the latest updates and ongoings in the world of Confluence specifically related to our large, enterprise customer deployments. Participation in this webinar is an exclusive benefit for Atlassian Enterprise customers of Confluence, however, we make all of the recordings available as part of the Atlassian Enterprise Resources.

2. Confluence Webinar
April 2, 2013
Bill Arconati Ken Olofsen
Confluence Group Product Portfolio Product Marketing Lead
Manager

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6. Enterprise Stash Webinar up next
• Tentatively planned for June 2013
Technical Workshops in development
• JIRA Application Security
• JIRA Upgrade Best Practices
• Confluence Theme Design
• JIRA Integrations
• DVCS Concepts with Stash & Git

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9. Atlassian An Enterprise
Recent Features What’s Next?
Enterprise Story

10. What Is “Enterprise”?

11. Confluence
in the Published by
Atlassian Media
Enterprise
Copyright 2013
Sydney, NSW
A coming of age story

12. Small Team
• Developer in IT
• Installed Confluence and JIRA
• Ad-hoc documentation
• Dozen users / couple spaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkeefe/

13. Departmental
• Project Manager in IT
• Found Confluence through Daniel
• Project reporting
• Hundreds of Users / Dozens of
spaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/

14. Company-wide
• Business Unit Manager
• Learned Confluence from Paula
• Departmental website
• Thousands of Users / Hundreds
of spaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/

15. Enterprise
• System Administrator
• Inherits Confluence from Daniel
• Needs to keep Confluence
running
• Tens of thousands of users /
thousands of spaces
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/

16. What’s Changed?
Departmental Enterprise
Dozens of users Thousands of users
Few spaces Thousands of spaces
Under the Radar Mission Critical
Ad hoc management Centralised administration

17. Enterprise Focuses On:
Thousands of users User Scaling
Thousands of spaces Content Scaling
Mission Critical Stability / Availability
Centralised administration Administration Scaling

18. Poll Question #1:
Which of these areas are
important to you?

19. Atlassian An Enterprise
Recent Features What’s Next?
Enterprise Story

20. User & Group Scaling

21. LDAP Performance
• LDAP syncing performance (5.0)
• OpenLDAP
• Active Directory
• Delegate auth performance (5.0)
• Group lookup for delegated auth (5.0) Conf 4.3
Conf 4.3 Conf 5.0
Conf 5.0
• Nested Group option on Delegated LDAP (5.0)
• Improved handling of same-named groups (5.1)

22. Group Scaling
• Add searching to Manage Groups
screen (5.0)
• Improved pagination when
searching through groups (5.0)
• Group Autocomplete (5.1)

23. User Browsing
• User browsing for end users (5.0)
• Hide deactivated users in people directory
• Show LDAP users in people directory
before they log in
• Display correct number of people when
users are deleted from LDAP

24. Content Scaling

25. Archive Spaces
• Archive a space at the end of a project (4.3)
• Don’t need to delete the content
• Hidden from search results by default
• Can expand search to include archive
content

26. Browsing Spaces
• Space directory with pagination (3.5)
• Limit number spaces on the dashboard (4.0)

27. More...
• Autocomplete to select space home
page (5.0)

28. Stability / Availability

29. Office Integration
• Solve OOMEs when search indexing Excel files
• Minimise CPU usages of Viewfile Macro of xlsx files
• Prevent OOMEs when importing Word documents
as pages (5.0)
• Reduce memory consumption of indexing PPT files
(do not not load all images) (5.0)

30. Stability / Availability
• Navigating
• (5.0) Improve Pagetree and Children macro
performance on large spaces (5.0)
• Exporting
• Performing an XML backup on a large dataset
takes a long time and causes an OOME. (4.2)
• Reduce Confluence PDF export memory
usage (5.1) - 1.3GB memory down to 60MB!

31. Admin Scale

32. Add-on Requests
• User workflow for requesting new Add-Ons (4.3)

33. Space Provisioning
• Default space permissions (4.3)

34. User Provisioning
• Invite Users (4.3)
• Via URL
• Or direct email
• Domain-restricted signup
• Email users on account
creation (4.3)

35. Admin Quick Access
• Quick access to admin functions (5.1)
• Accessible instant from the search box
• Keyboard Shortcuts for quick access:
• use standard ‘/’
• or ‘gg’ (JIRA admin shortcut)

36. votes satisfied?
Top Voted Features
• (4.1) Any character in page titles • (5.0) View page restriction of a child page will be
lost once the parent page is removed
• (4.1) Global custom PDF stylesheet
•(5.0) PDF export blogs
• (4.2) Fix broken images in word
export • (4.3) Delete attachment versions
• (4.2) Label attachments •(5.0) delete page versions
• Excerpt include to work across • Editor - Sortable tables, custom background
spaces (4.2 and 4.3) colours, create WYSIWYG templates, multiple drafts
per space, support non-standard link protocols

37. Survey Question
What “Admin Scaling” features
would make you more productive?

38. Atlassian An Enterprise
Recent Features What’s Next?
Enterprise Story

39. User & Group Scaling

40. Rename Users
• Internal Users
• Internal with LDAP auth
• Full LDAP
• Crowd/JIRA

41. Content Scaling

42. Search Improvements
• Quick-access recently viewed
• Improved ranking
• Faster Filters
• More visible
• Instantly-applied
• No page refresh

43. Stability / Availability

44. Stability / Availability
• Targeting specific causes of instability
and OOMEs
• Investigating High Availability

45. Admin Scale

46. Space Provisioning
• Space-level Blueprints
• Custom home page
• Pre-populated content
• Themes
• Pluggable

47. Poll Question #2:
What kinds of Space Blueprints
would you like to see in Confluence?

48. Admin Scaling
• Top voted features
• Templates in blog posts, Move blogs
• Trash management (removed attachments in trash)
• Beyond
• Delegate more to space admins (invite users to space, groups per
space, prevent admins from changing anonymous access)

49. What’s
Next?
Products &
Offerings User Scaling Content
Scaling
Availability Admin
Program Enterprise
Features

50. Questions?

51. Get Involved

52. Thank you!