Building Portals, Intranets & Corporate Web Sites Using MS Servers

This book is a practical guide for developers and information technology managers. It is focused on conveying what elements make up a portal and how to construct these elements using the Microsoft development platform. It is a combination of introductions to key concepts, suggestions for portal planning, and limited detailed technical instruction by way of examples that relate to all the main portal elements. Most chapters describe what to build and then show how to build it.

The most important section for managers is the first five chapters. These chapters address the portal from the perspective of a user and provide valuable background that can help managers form reasonable project expectations. The focus is not on individual products and features. Indeed, portals with the functionality described here could be implemented with a number of different technologies and products, and these are introduced in the second part of the book.

Developers will spend more time with the remainder of the book to understand how to fill the gap between products and where each portal service belongs. They will want to review the early chapters to understand the vision for a .NET portal and to ensure that the IT manager doesn't know something that they don't. These later chapters do not attempt to restate the vast amount of information in help files and product documentation for the products used in our examples. Rather, our goal is to create a higher-level overview that encompasses multiple products and puts each product and feature in its proper place. We also highlight best practices and hints that are not found in the product documentation but can save many hours of work or frustration.

There are no prerequisites for grasping the material in this book, as it explains the anatomy of a portal from the ground up. Our goals are to provide a compelling vision for portals that can be applied to your business requirements and to explain in detail how this vision maps to the Microsoft .NET Framework and web services.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introduction to Portals
Chapter 02 - Portal Elements
Chapter 03 - Microsoft's Portal Strategy
Chapter 04 - Web Services
Chapter 05 - Portal Framework—.NET
Chapter 06 - Security Services
Chapter 07 - User Profiles
Chapter 08 - Personalization
Chapter 09 - Content Management
Chapter 10 - Developing Portal Taxonomy
Chapter 11 - Integrating Line-of-Business Applications
Chapter 12 - Collaboration in the Enterprise Portal
Chapter 13 - Search Engine
Chapter 14 - Scalability and the Portal

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