The Peer Servers module apparently lets you connect to other phpGroupware servers. You will need the link to the other server(s), along with the admin user login and password to make the connection. You can control which way the relationship between servers flows. Thus, if you have a server that other servers connect to for information, you can set the relationship on it to "outbound", so that it does not accept inbound information from other servers. Or you can setup a 2-way relationship. More options are available, should you need that, so be sure to check into them.

I have no idea what the Adddress Masters setting is all about, but apparently, you must have at least one. Until I get a response from the phpGroupware crew, I can only assume that this is probably a sort of template used for the address book. Alternatively, these are special users with superpowers where the address book is concerned. I also don't know what the Sync-Account Contact link is - it doesn't seem to do anything.

The user and group account settings modules should be fairly obvious. I suggest creating groups and assigning appropriate permissions to each, and then create users to put in the groups. Some of the permissions settings have an ACL box next to them. Go ahead and set the ACL permissions as well. If you don't give users appropriate permissions to access an application, they won't be able to use it.

Next comes the applications settings. You can delete applications, hide them from the Navigation Bar, or change their location on it. Having set the appropriate permissions is fine in most cases, but you may not need to use SOAP, if you are a management consulting firm. In any case, hiding them from the navbar is sufficient in most cases to clear the clutter for users.

In Global Categories, you will want to establish the top-level categories, such as "Work" and "Personal", along with other major categories (accounting, sales, etc.). It's a good idea to establish these, so you can let your users create their own sub-categories. You may need global sub-categories, but otherwise, save yourself a bit of time and trouble.

Finally, you can change the Main message (welcome message) the users see in the Home page after logging in. You can make it a slogan, a special welcome message, or tell your workforce they're all fired. If you go with that last option, I'd recommend changing the permissions on any apps containing critical data first.

The rest of the Admin configuration section is geared toward letting you view logs and the PHP information for your site. You should click the Find and Register all Application Hooks. It doesn't appear to do anything, but is probably just a script to run. Finally, Asynchronous timed services let's you setup Cron jobs, such as calendar alarms.

Keep following along. I'll be posting updates to this article with answers to the issues I wasn't able to explain. Next, time, we'll work on Administering some of the applications.