Chapter 9. Portal management
This chapter covers:
It seems like ages since we started our journey into the world of web parts and portals and we’ve covered a lot of ground along the way. Having taken on the challenge of creating a web portal for the Adventure Works business, we set about liaising with the end-users of the portal so that we could understand their requirements and ensure that we were building suitable features for them. Well, the good news is that our work is almost complete and soon it will be time to deploy the code onto the company’s web server so the HR employees can begin using their new portal application. Before we can deploy our portal though, we need to start the planning that will help us to decide how the portal will be deployed. In addition, we need to work out how to support the portal after it has been deployed.
By the end of this chapter, we will not only have deployed our portal, but we will also have set a strategy for effective management of the portal when it is no longer under our control. Having this strategy in place frees us to be creative in chapter 10, when we look at the newer areas of portal development that are emerging.