Roll out, support, and optimize the flexible portal solution that makes it easy to find, share, and publish information, with expertise from those who know the technology best—the Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server 2001 development team. This powerhouse RESOURCE KIT is the all-in-one manual that computer professionals can rely on while installing, customizing, and supporting SharePoint Portal Server 2001. It includes hundreds of pages of detailed technical drilldown, plus handy tools and Web Parts on CD-ROM—all designed to help you save time, reduce support costs, and lower your total cost of ownership! Topics covered include:

• INTRODUCTION: Overview of SharePoint Portal Server technologies, services, specifications, architecture, the dashboard site, and Microsoft full-text search technologies

• PLANNING: Creating a deployment plan including server capacity, security, taxonomy, and Web discussions

• DEPLOYMENT: Installing SharePoint Portal Server, deploying it in an extranet environment, integrating it in an enterprise infrastructure, searching in a multilingual environment, and provisioning multiple portals within an enterprise environment

• ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT: Optimizing performance of SharePoint Portal Server, categorizing documents, and creating content for a corporate portal using Microsoft Office XP

• DEVELOPMENT: Architecting Web Parts for business applications, best practices for creating Web Parts, creating custom Web Parts with Microsoft Office XP Developer, creating a corporate Web Parts gallery, importing Web Parts and dashboard projects from another SharePoint Portal Server, analyzing the default query for the dashboard site, and crawling custom metadata

• CASE STUDIES: How a technology center bid a final farewell to piles of files; migrating search services from Microsoft Site Server 3.0 to SharePoint Portal Server; deploying SharePoint Portal Server across multiple sites with the rapid portal provisioning tool; and how an energy company uses the Category Assistant to optimize document management

• APPENDIXES: A description of the tools and Web Parts on the CD-ROM and how to use them, plus an extensive list of sources for further information INCLUDED ON CD-ROM:

• An electronic version of the RESOURCE KIT text

• Tools and Web Parts including category sort, content source status and document status, index active directory, server latency, RTF and XML filters, undelete, and workspace-coordinator management tools, as well as supporting documentation.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
• Part 2 Planning and Installation
• Part 3 Deployment
• Part 4 Administration and Management
• Part 5 Development
• Part 6 Case Studies
• Part 7 Appendixes