Building Portals Intranets and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers | Date: 19 January 2011, 06:47
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Not even the implosion of the dot com bubble was enough to derail the proliferation of Internet technology and the move toward "e-business" that has extended to nearly every industry in the developed world. Few organizations are content to tolerate the isolation of applications into separate "silos" of information, or poor interoperability among their software solutions. The portal has been held up as a means to achieve better application integration and provide a consistent user interface both inside and outside the enterprise. Companies and other organizations need to take a broader look at their portal strategy to make the various elements of their architecture work together. This is a pivotal time not only in the emergence of new technology but the convergence of technologies toward open standards and enhanced interoperability. Audience and Goals for this Book The portal market is an amorphous and elusive target, with a small number of universal standards and a large population of vendors attempting to define in ways that are most beneficial for their product sales. The first generation of portal books were devoted to explaining why portals were such a good idea, and how they would benefit their users. The bulk of these were devoted to enterprise portals, and to extolling the virtues of extensible markup language (XML). Others were devoted to explaining how to use a single product with portal in the name, such as Oracle Portal or Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, but only covered a small portion of the features that an organization might reasonably want to include in a portal. While these works are helpful and necessary, the theoretical portal books don't go far enough in explaining how to implement their solutions. Some of the theories that were expounded in early portal books were not borne out by experience in the software market. The single product books can go no further than the products themselves, leaving you with half or less of the solution you had in mind. This book is a practical guide for developers and information technology managers, 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 consist of two parts, one describing what to build, and the second showing how to build it. The most important section for managers is the first five chapters. These first chapters address the portal from the perspective of a user and provide valuable background that can help the manager form reasonable project expectations. This section is not focused on individual products and features. Indeed, portals with the functionality described here could be implemented with a number of different technologies and products than are offered in the second part of the book. Developers will spend more time with the rest 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 anything 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. Expectations for this Book No single product provides the infrastructure and tools needed to build a full featured portal. Therefore we have had to include a number of server and development products to fill each niche in our portal ecosystem. Prerequisites There are no prerequisites for this book, as it attempts to define new concepts as they are introduced, and to explain the anatomy of a portal from the ground up. The goal is 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. This book does not attempt to teach much of the fundamental knowledge and techniques that are required to be a successful and productive developer. For instance, it does not provide background information on the following fundamental topics: Relational database concepts Web development technologies other than .NET Networking and security Object-oriented programming The source code examples included in this book are not sufficient to learn any of the products that are used for examples, nor is the code presented all that would be needed for a full portal implementation. In other words, we are not going to be eliminating any jobs in the information technology service industry by publishing this book. The code examples are intended to be illustrative and inspirational, getting the reader off to a strong start in building a solution. Software Requirements To work through all the code examples in this book, you will need the following products: Visual Studio.NET Commerce Server 2002 Content Management Server SharePoint Portal Server (version 2) Microsoft Office 2003 BizTalk Server SQL Server 2000 Windows 2000 or Windows XP Internet Information Server Although it may possible to configure a single server with all these products, a more practical development environment would be to allocate one server for SQL Server, one as the Web server, and one for everything else. The number of servers required for a full implementation is discussed in Chapter 14, Portal Scalability. There has never been a better time to enrich your organization's Web presence. We hope you enjoy learning about portals and putting these ideas into practice. 0321159632P11202003
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