This book describes how to get the most out of the Sun Portal Server Secure Remote Access 6.x products. The best practice suggestions contained in this book evolved from real-world customer escalation's, proof-of-concept exercises, and presales support. Each chapter provides high-level overviews that quickly drill down into technical details that are critical for solving problems or heading them off entirely. This book represents an aggregation of information to get the most out of your secure portal investment, by simplifying it's deployment, minimizing it's management, and optimizing it's usage.

Robert L. Baker has been working in Internet server software development, deployment, and usage technologies for over six years. Currently, Rob provides sustaining development and escalation support for various enterprise network software products for Sun Microsystems, including the Solaris ISP Server, iPlanet Web Server, Netscape PublishingXpert, and the Sun ONE Portal Server products. Rob is an advocate of Sun's customer first philosophy. To that end, he has published numerous Sun BluePrints best practice articles including the Sun ONE Portal Server Rewriter Configuration and Management Guide, the Sun ONE Portal Server and Microsoft Exchange Integration Cookbook, and the Sun ONE Portal Server and Lotus iNotes Integration Recipe. The articles have been used to successfully deploy solutions to dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Working closely with the development organizations in Sun, Rob has also invented and filed several pending patents based on cutting-edge portal technologies.