What type of site are you trying to ultimately build?

You don't have to use the multiple portal functionality within DNN, I setup sites all the time that are only a single portal and use DNN's ability to create pages/content and administer all of that information through a browser. You don't even have to enable registrations or logins for users if you don't need that functionality, though you'll still want to login to manage the content as an admin.

 

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Chris Hammond
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Hi Chris,
thank you for your response. I'm very impressed with DotNetNuke itself and the support here in this forum.


We intend to build an web site with several user roles (admin, authentictated user, guest). Depending on the user role, access may be restricted.

Basically, authenticated users will be able to view certain information on screen and generate several different reports based on certain criteria (PDF). Data is retrieved from various (external) sources and aggreated (as a scheduled task running every night). Some calculations will be done in the background.

Administrators would be able to add new algorithms or trigger updates of the database. User management is not a responsibility of the administrator. Instead, LDAP should be used for group membership and login.

Initially, 250 users concurrent users have to be supported.

I think that we could use the active directory module for this purpose.

In addition, we've found a DotNetNuke module that allows us to integreate it with Reporting Services, which could prove useful.

Cheers
Beni