The SharePoint Portal Server is a powerful end-to-end solution for aggregating content from multiple sources into a single location, document management, and custom portal development. The Administrators Guide to SharePoint Portal Server 2001 is a comprehensive manual for the planning, design, deployment, and management of Microsofts corporate information portal solution. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Bill English takes both technical and non-technical administrators under the hood, explaining everything from basic concepts to advanced customization techniques.The book begins by outlining the challenges of knowledge and document management and showing how the SharePoint Portal Server can be used to address them. The following chapters detail the servers architecture, including the index and Web store tools, and examine Microsofts Digital Dashboard and Web Parts, the core components of a powerful customized corporate portal. Readers then walk through the entire server life cycle: the identification of user needs, capacity planning, installation, and configuration. All of the tasks of SharePoint administration are systematically described and demonstrated. The Administrators G