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Designing an NT-based Intranet

Designing an NT-based Intranet. David Strom david@strom.com SD’98 2/13/98. Summary. Focus on publishing process Examine what is available from Microsoft Review other NT-based products. What exactly do you want to do with your intranet?. Web-enable something(s) Share stuff internally

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Designing an NT-based Intranet

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  1. Designing an NT-based Intranet David Strom david@strom.com SD’98 2/13/98

  2. Summary • Focus on publishing process • Examine what is available from Microsoft • Review other NT-based products

  3. What exactly do you want to do with your intranet? • Web-enable something(s) • Share stuff internally • Improve communications

  4. Going beyond single-person web publishing • Coordinate multiple HTML authors • Web front ends to databases • Updating specifications, project documents

  5. Why use NT? • It is cheap and easy to setup • Has a decent built-in web server: IIS • Tons of applications from Microsoft, others

  6. What comes standard with NT Server v4? • DHCP server • File, print for Macintosh clients

  7. What else you’ll need • NT Server Resource Kit (4 books, the “real” documentation) • NT Options Pack (upgrades and Internet software)

  8. NT Options Pack • IIS v4 • Service Pack 3 • Transaction Server v2 • Internet Connection for RAS • Site Server Express • Web Publishing Wizard • IE v4.01 (needed to install all of the above)

  9. IIS v4 • Better content management with MS Management Console • Flexible log files and analysis tools • More stable • Not as CPU-intensive

  10. Which Site Server? • V3 Commerce, in beta, storefront enhancements • V2 Standard, has push publishing features • Active Channel Server • Direct emailer • Rules manager • SQL Server maintains membership data • www.microsoft.com/siteserver

  11. Web Publishing Wizard • Quick and easy way to upload files • Works on non-MS web servers • Operates both with FTP and HTTP protocols

  12. Non-Microsoft products • Netscape NetShare (free with Suite Spot) • Intranetics ($7500) • Open Text LiveLink ($75,000 for 100 users) • Paradesa ($20,000 and up)

  13. Evaluation issues • Mixture of web and non-web clients • Makes use of existing database, web server • Do you want to add software to every client? • Are you current with versions of your database, web servers?

  14. NetShare • Enables document sharing, multiple authors • Java based, works with Suite Spot Enterprise Server3.5 • Updates links, tracks revisions • www.netscape.com (hard to find info on it!)

  15. Intranetics • Comes with 17 different applications • organization charts, expense reports • employee directories, job postings, others • Completely web-based • Fussy, fat, and fragile • No bulk import of existing data • Difficult installation • marketing.intranetics.com jdylan/jdylan

  16. LiveLink • More workflow management than web publishing • Supports both web and non-web clients • Need both clients for installing entire software • web for document repository • non-web for workflows • www.opentext.com/livelink/otm_ll_test.html

  17. Paradesa • Entirely web-based • Comes with several applications • www.paradesa.com/intranet/index1.cfm • admin: guest/guest

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