WorkPlace Sites

You can create multiple WorkPlace sites for different user segments, such as employees, business partners, and suppliers. Each site can have a unique external URL and a unique appearance, or bypass the WorkPlace portal and redirect the user to a different start page.

For example, you could create a WorkPlace site for your employees with a customized title and logo, and a URL of http://employees.headquarters.com, and create a different site for your partners at http://partners.subsidiary.com. If you create multiple WorkPlace sites with unique external URLs, you can import a wildcard certificate to the appliance and designate it as the server certificate for multiple WorkPlace sites, or procure a separate SSL certificate for each site whose FQDN is different from the appliance’s domain name. For more information, see Certificates.

Due to client operating system limitations, Mobile Connect cannot convert host name, URL, or domain type resources containing wildcards to an IP address and, therefore, cannot redirect them to the appliance.

Optionally, if you have configured multiple realms, you can associate a WorkPlace site with a realm; this enables users to bypass the portion of the authentication process in which they would normally specify a realm to log in to. If you associate a WorkPlace site with a realm, users cannot select a different realm to log in to; a user who does not belong to the specified realm cannot log in to the specified WorkPlace site.

You can customize the following components of WorkPlace:

• Company logo

• WorkPlace title

• Greeting at top of page

• Color scheme

• Help file

• Font family

You can have users bypass the WorkPlace portal and go directly to a different start page, provided that the realm they log in to allows translated, custom port mapped, or custom FQDN mapped Web access exclusively. See Adding WorkPlace Sites for more information.

You may also want to set up custom licensing agreements that they will have to accept before getting started.

The URL a user types to log in to WorkPlace is preceded by the http://protocol identifier. The Web session is then redirected to a site that uses secure HTTP (HTTPS) and uses the https://protocol identifier.

 

• If you do not specify a custom WorkPlace site, or if users access the appliance using its default name, the default WorkPlace site is automatically used.

• Rather than creating a new WorkPlace site from scratch, you can save time by making a copy of an existing site and changing some parameters to fit the new site. For information about copying a WorkPlace site, see Adding, Editing, Copying, and Deleting Objects in AMC.

• You can delete a WorkPlace site if you no longer need it, but you cannot delete the default WorkPlace site. For information about deleting WorkPlace sites, see Adding, Editing, Copying, and Deleting Objects in AMC.

 

• Adding WorkPlace Sites

• Modifying the Appearance of WorkPlace

• WorkPlace and Small Form Factor Devices