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

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

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

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

5. 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. 6 What comes standard with NT Server v4? DHCP server File, print for Macintosh clients

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

8. 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. 9 IIS v4 Better content management with MS Management Console Flexible log files and analysis tools More stable Not as CPU-intensive

10. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.h tml

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