The Administrator's Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (Paperback)

Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2001 gives companies a powerful, end-to-end solution for custom portal development, document management, and knowledge management. In The Administrator's Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001, leading Windows technology consultant Bill English presents the industry's most thorough guide to SharePoint planning, architecture, deployment, and management. English begins by outlining the challenges of knowledge and document management, and showing how SharePoint can be used to address them. He presents in-depth coverage of SharePoint's architecture, including its Index and Web Store components; then introduces Microsoft's Digital Dashboard and Web Parts, the core components of a powerful customized corporate portal. English walks through the entire SharePoint lifecycle: identifying user needs, capacity planning, installation, and configuration. He concludes with detailed overviews of third-party tools and resources for extending SharePoint. For every IT professional who is evaluating, planning for, deploying, or managing Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2001. This book will be especially valuable to professionals in document-rich environments, especially those running Exchange or Lotus Notes-based messaging.

The SharePoint Portal Server is a powerful end-to-end solution for document management, custom portal development, and aggregating content from multiple sources into a single location. The Administrator's Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001 is a comprehensive manual for the planning, design, deployment, and management of Microsoft's corporate information portal solution. Bill English, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, takes technical and nontechnical administrators under the hood, explaining everything from basic concepts to advanced customization techniques.

The book begins by outlining the challenges of knowledge and document management and showing how the SharePoint Portal Server can be used to address them. Chapters detail the server's architecture, including the index and Web-store tools, and examine Microsoft's Digital Dashboard and Web Parts, the core components of a powerful customized corporate portal. Readers walk through the entire server life cycle: the identification of user needs, capacity planning, installation, and configuration. Each task of SharePoint administration is systematically described and demonstrated. The Administrator's Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001 concludes with a rundown of third-party tools and resources for extending SharePoint.

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