How This Book Is Organized

This guide is organized into the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, “Introduction to Portal Server Software,” provides a conceptual overview of key features of Portal Server.

• Chapter 2, “Portal Server Deployment,” describes concepts that are relevant to deployment decisions.

• Chapter 3, “Portal Server Desktop,” explains basic information about how the Desktop delivers content to end users.

• Chapter 4, “Portal Server Community Features,” describes community features that Portal Server provides for the Desktop to enhance the productivity of enterprises and their end users.

• Chapter 5, “Portal Server Search Server,” provides information about the Portal Server search server robot and taxonomy.

• Chapter 6, “Portal Server Management,” summarizes what options administrators have for managing Portal Server and how administrators use Access Manager to manage tasks that affect how Portal Server services are delivered.

• Chapter 7, “Portal Server Management Console,” describes the browser interface that Portal Server provides for portal administration and configuration tasks.

• Chapter 8, “Portal Server Reports,” describes how Portal Server provides information about end users, servers, and logging activities and presents details about log files.

• Chapter 9, “Portal Server Performance Tuning,” explains the functions of the Portal Server perftune() script.