Windows Networking Requirements - Nortel Web Center Portal Reference Manual

Planning and engineering

Windows networking requirements

Introduction
Before you install Symposium Web Center Portal, your network administrator
must configure your Microsoft Windows network.
Simplest configuration
In the simplest configuration, the network administrator adds your Portal and
TAPI servers to the domain forest of the Portal Desktops.
Multiple-domain configuration
Optionally, the network administrator can put the Portal server, the TAPI server,
or both, into a different domain than the Agent Desktops. However, each of these
domains must have a two-way trust relationship with the others.
For example, if you have three domains, one containing your Portal Server, one
containing your TAPI server, and one containing your Agent Desktops, the
following conditions must be true:
The Portal domain must have a two-way trust relationship with both the
!
TAPI and Agent Desktop domains.
The TAPI domain must have a two-way trust relationship with both the
!
Portal and Agent Desktop domains.
The Agent Desktop domain must have a two-way trust relationship with
!
both the Portal and TAPI domains.
A two-way trust relationship between two domains means that members of both
domains have access to the resources of the other domain without having to log
on to that domain. For example, in a two-way trust relationship between the
Portal and TAPI domains, members of the TAPI domain have access to the
resources of the Portal domain, and members of the Portal domain have access
to the resources of the TAPI domain. For more information, refer to the Network
Managers Guide for Symposium TAPI Service Provider and your Microsoft
Windows documentation.
24 Nortel Networks Symposium Web Center Portal
Standard 2.0