Professional Site Server 3.0 Personalization and Membership
By Robert Howard
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Microsoft's Site Server 3.0 is a complex product with tools and technologies that span from easy to understand and use to very difficult. The heart of Site Server is the Personalization and Membership feature set. This feature allows you to provide personalized content based on user choices as well as secure the content in a membership section of your web site. Wrox's Professional Site Server 3.0 Personalization and Membership book provides information about the Personalization and Membership feature set.
Most technical books take either a programming or implementation slant. This book covers the whole range. Rob Howard's book takes the Personalization and Membership features of Site Server one step at a time. He is careful to cover the features from installation all the way to programmability. The book uses scenarios to explain the different options including why and when you would want to use them.
One of the biggest pros and cons of P&M for me was the dependency on LDAP for the data storage protocol due to lack of documentation. Rob handles this brilliantly. He explains LDAP and shows you how to program with it. There is even an appendix that explains those ever-mysterious LDAP errors. Why read the Microsoft documentation when you can learn everything you need from this book?
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