Between these links and the other searching I've done in the meantime, it's starting to look like this may take more time that I'd hoped. For example, I know next to nothing about portal design. This is what I get for believing Microsoft's marketing hooey about how simple this make collaboration (if you have a staff of web designers; kids, don't try this at home!).
Typical of Microsoft, I can find tons of links on their web site, but making sense out of them or locating some concrete "how to" information among their high-level concept pages is difficult. Lots of why I should use it, little on how to use it.
PT, your first link is to a TechNet article about a tool called Sharepoint Configuration Analyzer. It looks like it's oriented toward a server administrator, not toward my objective of putting together a page. it's beyond my current skill set and doesn't appear to fit my objective. I can navigate from that link to other articles, but I've never had much luck wading through TechNet for useful content. (Anybody from Microsoft reading this? Take a hint.) Thanks for that one.
I'm not sure what I should be getting from the links on your second post; did you intend to post to a different question? I have absolutely no idea what you thought I would derive from the igniterealtime link. I'm not interested in any of the projects on display and I saw no mention of Sharepoint. I have the same problem with your link to a Suse web site; I don't know what that has to do with Sharepoint. I can't access the third link at work; I'll try it from home. The fourth link is trying to sell me a collaboration solution; in theory I already have one in Sharepoint, I just don't know how to use it.
Maybe I'm missing the point of your second set of links. Perhaps if you'd provide some text explaining what I should be getting from these.
