Portal on OCS R2

I have just installed OCS R2 on 3 boxes running Red Hat Linux AS 2.1
Has anyone got portal working with portlets for email, calendar, files etc.
On OCS R1 I had everything installed on one AIX box and configuring portal was straightforward using the Cookbook document.
Because of this I guess I have not fully understood portal and am struggling to configure on OCS R2.
Can anyone help or suggest some relevant documention.
Regards,
Colin Jenkins

for ocs rel 2, the portals are added during the middle tier installation, you no longer need to worry about this. all you need to do is assign the OCS_PORTAL_USERS group to your users. One thing though, the files portal does not get regisetered during the middle tier installation unless you have the files domain controller up before the web client config assistant runs. If you don't , after the middle tier is complete do the following:
set the environment for the middle tier
run the following:
$ORACLE_HOME/webclient/bin/web_clientinstaller.sh
i can;t rememebr the *.sh file name, just go to the the location above, you'll be able to work out which one it is.
naqi

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