The course focuses on the new administrative GUI and tools to manage portlets and access control, portlet customization, search engines, and security features.

• Portal planning and design
• WebSphere Portal Version 5 architecture
• WebSphere Portal installation and configuration
• Portal deployment and testing
• User and group profiling and authentication
• Page aggregation
• Rebranding the portal look and feel (Themes and skins implementation)
• Utilizing the WebSphere Portal v5 Document Manager (PDM)
• Web services
• Portal search engine administration
• Web clipping administration

After completing this course, the student should be able to: 

• Discuss approaches and processes for the planning and designing of a portal community
• Explain the WebSphere Portal Solution architecture and its abstractions
• Create Portal users and groups, and exercise access control options to manage their usage of Portal resources
• Install and activate portlets and portlet applications
• Create new or existing Portal Places, and configure their default content
• Publish Web content using Document Manager
• Integrate and publish remote portlets

This is an intermediate course for IBM WebSphere Portal administrators.

Students should have intermediate knowledge of Java development using WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Knowledge of Servlet and JSP is strongly recommended.