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Designing an NT-based Intranet. David Strom [email protected] 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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Summary
• Focus on publishing process
• Examine what is available from Microsoft
• Review other NT-based products
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What exactly do you want to do with your intranet?
• Web-enable something(s)
• Share stuff internally
• Improve communications
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Going beyond single-person web publishing
• Coordinate multiple HTML authors
• Web front ends to databases
• Updating specifications, project documents
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Why use NT?
• It is cheap and easy to setup
• Has a decent built-in web server: IIS
• Tons of applications from Microsoft, others
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What comes standard with NT Server v4?
• DHCP server
• File, print for Macintosh clients
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What else you’ll need
• NT Server Resource Kit (4 books, the “real” documentation)
• NT Options Pack (upgrades and Internet software)
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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)
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IIS v4
• Better content management with MS Management Console
• Flexible log files and analysis tools
• More stable
• Not as CPU-intensive
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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
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Web Publishing Wizard
• Quick and easy way to upload files
• Works on non-MS web servers
• Operates both with FTP and HTTP protocols
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Non-Microsoft products
• Netscape NetShare (free with Suite Spot)
• Intranetics ($7500)
• Open Text LiveLink ($75,000 for 100 users)
• Paradesa ($20,000 and up)
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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?
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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!)
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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
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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
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Paradesa
• Entirely web-based
• Comes with several applications
• www.paradesa.com/intranet/index1.cfm• admin: guest/guest