Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal 8 on Windows

This instructor-led course is designed for system administrators who want to acquire or update their WebSphere Portal administration skills. Through hands-on application of installing, configuring and managing WebSphere Portal, system administrators will learn basic through advanced concepts of WebSphere Portal administration management In the first half of the course, you practice common day-to-day administration tasks on IBM WebSphere Portal Server 8.0, including portlet installation, security configuration, and WebSphere Portal site management. In the second half of the course, the focus shifts to installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal V8.0.Configuration includes the database used by WebSphere Portal, federated user registries, and clustering for scalability and fault tolerance. This course specifically addresses the following new features of IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 :

New installation program, IBM Installation Manager Overlay analytics reports Managed pages (Simplified page creation from the site toolbar) Optimized theme that uses a modular framework Search optimization update (page metadata is rendered as keywords in the HTML) OpenID support (Enables site visitors to authenticate by using a third-party identity provider) New configuration wi­zard