Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Guide to designing, developing, and implementing Web portals using Microsoft servers and the .NET Framework. Shows how to create a portal architecture based on Microsoft .NET and integrate multiple server technologies and components to create a powerful portal solution. It describes the numerous Microsoft offerings, like the Content Management Server or the SQL Server 2000, and how these can be stitched together into a portal. While the first section can be read as a general description of portals.


Finally a book that ties all these products together
As a long-time user of Microsoft products, I have found the array and depth of the various products overwhelming and needed a comprehensive yet easy to understand presentation of the key parts of these products and how they can be used within a portal implementation. I strongly recommend this for all CIOs or people responsible for technical architecture and direction.


Broad in scope and audience
While most technology books either pander to Luddite executives or deliver pages of code to professional developers, _Building Portals_ is that rare breed, a tech book with content for managers and architects and developers. I passed a dog-earned copy around to some tech-challenged coworkers and it was very well received.


Good topic idea but ...
This book explains the concept of portals and how Microsoft enterprise servers handle and implement the features that goes into a portal. Most of the content in it concentrates on how to do caching in a personalized setting without explaining how to do personalization with CMS in the first place.

In Chapter 5 Portal Framework, it details line by line codes on how to write a portal site in VB.Net.