Software Requirements

To work through all the code examples in this book, you need the following products:

• Visual Studio.NET

• Commerce Server 2002

• Content Management Server

• SharePoint Portal Server 2003

• Microsoft Office 2003

• BizTalk Server

• SQL Server 2000

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP

• Windows Server 2003

Although it may possible to configure a single server with all these products, a more practical development environment would be to allocate one server to 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, "Scalability and the Portal."

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.