Putting the .NET Portal Together
Clearly, a full-featured portal provides a wide range of functionality to its users. What is not as obvious is the complexity of the underlying solution. Microsoft has not attempted to pack all the tools you may need into a single product. Based on the results of the portal solution requirements table, we can determine which Microsoft Server components are needed for our portal, as shown in Table 2.4. I omitted .NET, Visual Studio, and Windows Server from this table because they are required for all the portal solutions discussed in this book.
| CMS | SQL Server | SPS | WSS | Commerce | BizTalk | Active Directory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Look-and-feel | X | X | |||||
| Security | X | X | |||||
| User profile | X | X | |||||
| Personalization ... |
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