Appendix B
The following resources provide additional information about the topics in this resource kit, Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server 2001, and related Microsoft products and technologies.
For more information about SharePoint Portal Server, including documentation that shipped with the product, see http://www.microsoft.com/SharePoint/.
This chapter presents an overview of the features of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and Microsoft SharePoint Team Services, in addition to an overview of how the SharePoint technologies are best used together to provide the appropriate level of information management across an enterprise.
For more information about SharePoint Team Services, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/.
This chapter introduces the default dashboard site and presents information about customizing the dashboard site. It reviews the components of the dashboard site and describes the primary management tasks and security issues associated with it.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
See the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
See the Dashboard Site Help for SharePoint Portal Server, available from the Help link in the upper right corner of the dashboard site, for more information about the following topics:
This chapter describes full-text search technology that is used in a variety of Microsoft products. This chapter can help you to choose the Microsoft products that are best suited for your information retrieval needs.
See the Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
See Microsoft Research at http://research.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
See the SQL Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/sql for more information about the following topics:
See the Site Server Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/siteserver/ for more information about the following topics:
See the Exchange Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ for more information about the following topics:
See the Microsoft Office Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/office/ for more information about the following topics:
For information about Microsoft E-Commerce Business Solutions and Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, see http://www.microsoft.com/business/ecommerce/.
This chapter identifies the technical boundaries of SharePoint Portal Server to assist you in planning for maximum capacity usage. It also provides suggestions about where to increase resources to scale SharePoint Portal Server to maintain optimal performance.
For more information about setting resource usage for searching and index creation, see MMC Help in the SharePoint Portal Server Administration console (Administrator's Help)
See the SharePoint Portal Server SDK for more information about the SharePoint Portal Document Management Server object, Successful Checkins Latency, Successful Copies Latency, and Successful Publishes Latency counters.
This chapter presents an overview of the advantages of using Windows 2000 security features with SharePoint Portal Server. It reviews the elements of Windows 2000 security that allow you to secure access to content on your corporate portal and the role-based security model for SharePoint Portal Server. It presents an overview of SharePoint Portal Server security architecture, including the publishing model and provides suggestions for securing content for search and content aggregation.
See the Windows 2000 Platform SDK, available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/, for more information about the following topics:
See the Windows 2000 Deployment Planning Guide, available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/ for more information about the following topics:
See the Microsoft Security Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/security/ for more information about the following topics:
For more information about Windows 2000 and Windows NT Server, see http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ and the Windows NT Server Forum on the Microsoft Network (GO WORD: MSNTS).
This chapter describes the tools available in SharePoint Portal Server that help organize information for delegated coordination, collaboration, and browsing. This chapter also presents a method that coordinators can use to import an existing folder hierarchy into a workspace in a way that takes advantage of the capabilities provided by SharePoint Portal Server.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
This chapter describes how to implement and use Web discussions with SharePoint Portal Server. This chapter describes the relationships among Office, your existing Web browser, and SharePoint Portal Server, and assists you in troubleshooting and addressing any incompatibilities.
See "IFS Drive and the Microsoft Web Storage System" in the Readme file, located on the SharePoint Portal Server installation disk, for more information about the following topics:
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
This chapter provides installation procedures and troubleshooting information. In addition, this chapter provides information about the operating system and browser support, the installable file system (IFS) drive and the Microsoft Web Storage System, and proxy server settings used by SharePoint Portal Server.
For more information about planning your deployment, see Planning and Installation and Managing Content, located on the SharePoint Portal Server installation disc.
This chapter provides the procedures to follow if you want to deploy SharePoint Portal Server across an extranet. Once you complete these procedures, you can access your SharePoint Portal Server in both an intranet and an extranet environment.
For more information about Domain Name System (DNS), see MMC Help in the DNS console.
For the latest information about implementing IIS security configurations to secure your server, see http://www.microsoft.com/SharePoint.
For more information about the Web Storage System Explorer, see the Web Storage System SDK, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/.
This chapter describes MSSearch, the full-text search component of SharePoint Portal Server, functions in a multilingual environment. In addition, it reviews the process MSSearch applies when crawling, filtering, and querying the full-text index for content. It also provides an explanation of other factors to consider when crawling, filtering, and conducting search queries in a multilingual environment.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
This chapter presents a technical overview of the RapPort deployment. It reviews the process, called portal provisioning, required to create multiple intranet portals by using RapPort. In addition, this section provides planning information, installation procedures, administration tasks, and key procedures for using RapPort to deploy SharePoint Portal Server across multiple sites.
For detailed information on the application structure, see the white paper "RapPort Application Component Details" available at http://www.microsoft.com/SharePoint/.
For more information about creating workspaces and customizing them, see SharePoint Portal Server Administrator's Help.
This chapter describes steps for optimizing SharePoint Portal Server. You can modify settings in four areas in order to improve the performance and increase the scalability of the application. In addition, it is also important to use the appropriate hardware for your deployment goals. By monitoring performance, you can identify potential bottlenecks and address them before performance degrades.
See Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article Q266096, "XGEN: Exchange 2000 Requires /3GB Switch with More Than 1 Gigabyte of Physical RAM." For more information about the following topics:
See the Web Storage System Software Development Kit (SDK) available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
See Microsoft Web Application Stress tool at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for information about the following:
See the Exchange Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/ for more information about the following topics:
See Microsoft Product Support Services at http://support.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
This chapter described factors that affect query latency and also gave suggestions for how to improve query performance for your deployment.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
See Planning and Installation, located on the SharePoint Portal Server installation disk, for more information about the following topics:
See SharePoint Portal Server Administrator's Help for more information about the following topics:
This chapter presents the advantages of using SharePoint Portal Server to create a corporate portal. It reviews how Microsoft Office XP can help you customize the default dashboard site to create your own custom portal solution and how SharePoint Team Services can add further value to your portal solution.
See the Dashboard Site Help for SharePoint Portal Server, available from the Help link in the upper right corner of the dashboard site, for more information about the following topics:
This chapter describes how to build and deploy Web Parts to distribute mission-critical information from a variety of business applications. This chapter includes information about how to architect a Web Part for business applications, the tools and skill sets needed to build Web Parts, and the challenges that a developer must overcome in the process. This chapter was prepared in conjunction with Avanade.
See the Digital Dashboard Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/digitaldashboard/ for more information about the following topics:
See the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, including the Web Parts Development Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
This chapter provides recommendations for creating Web Parts. In addition, it provides a code sample of a stand-alone Web Part by using Active Server Pages (ASP), Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript), and a code sample of a Web Part to illustrate the recommended strategies.
See the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, including the Web Parts Development Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about creating Web Parts.
This chapter describes how you can use Office XP Developer to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2001. It also discusses coding practices for reusable Web Parts, and describes how to save Web Parts in order to move them from SharePoint Portal Server to another application that uses digital dashboards.
See the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, including the Web Parts Development Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com for more information about the following topics:
See the MSDN Office Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/office for the updated information about Web Parts and digital dashboards.
After you build or collect a set of Web Parts for your company, you can make them available to your users for use in a digital dashboard for SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server 2000, or Exchange 2000. To do this, you can create a corporate Web Part catalog. This chapter explains how to set up a catalog using SharePoint Portal Server or the SQL Server dashboard that is included in the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit (DDRK) 3.0.
See the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, including the Web Parts Development Kit, available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
This chapter outlines how to facilitate deploying digital dashboards across different stores and deploying Web Parts from one server to another. This chapter describes how to package and deploy Web Storage System dashboards from one server to another. It also shows how to import and export Web Parts from different data sources such as a SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange 2000 computer or a computer running a SQL Server dashboard.
See the Web Storage System Developer Tools, available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for use with the Application Deployment Wizard.
This chapter describes the default query for the dashboard site. It reviews the syntax for the query and provides suggestions for how to customize the default query for your deployment.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
See Microsoft Research at http://research.microsoft.com/ for more information about the following topics:
This chapter provides the steps necessary to promote metadata from externally crawled content into SharePoint Portal Server content indexes. This chapter also includes a utility script that allows you to automate the process by editing an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file and running a script.
See the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/ for the following tools:
Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft's Technology Center is one of the first German company to use the new SharePoint Portal Server for sophisticated document management. The Center expects significant optimization of project workflow from highly efficient retrieval capabilities and universal transparency throughout the complete document life cycle. Under the terms of an Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft is supporting the pioneering user with authorized consulting services.
For more information about T-Systems and the T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH, contact:
Technologiezentrum [Technology Center]
64307 Darmstadt
Mr. Uli Grün
Telephone: +49 6151 83-8375
Fax: +49 6151 83-5570
E-mail: uli.gruen@t-systems.de
This chapter describes the Information Technology Group (ITG) deployment plan of SharePoint Portal Server and the subsequent results in the Microsoft corporate environment. It provides detailed information and recommendations based on this deployment. It includes technical information on the existing environment, design decisions, deployment steps, and testing considerations. It concludes with a summary of recommendations based on this experience.
See Microsoft Official Curriculum Course 2095: Implementing Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 for additional background on the design of proper rules.
See the SharePoint Portal Server User's Help for more information about adding content sources.
See the SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit (SDK), available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/, for more information about the following topics:
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