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I don't know of any sites that really cover this. I create intranets a lot and it is really just setting up a server giving it a dns and doing what you usually do with an external website. It will be up to the IT department to secure it. With Windows I suggest using windows 2000 server and running asp. You really won't have a lot of concurrent users so don't be real concearned with speed. You also have a known browser (whatever your company uses) and high speed access (this allows much larger files).
You should probably have a 1 ghz machine with 512 ram. I would also want a gigabit nic card.
Secondly, you can break a lot of the file size rules in terms of images etc. Although I wouldn't go too far, your network administrator may have issues with the extra load your 2Mb per page of images are putting on his/her ethernet!
In terms of technology it very much depends on what functionality you need and languages you know. If you need databse support, and are running under Windows, ASP may be the language to use. You can get Personal Web Server for a normal (non-server) machine and use it as an Intranet server.
Security is only really an issue if you are opening your intranet up to the internet... unless your boss wants to put mamgement only info. up there and in that case you are getting into password protected areas etc.
HTH
We want to develop an intranet for internal information exchange.
I highly recommend you look to implement XML technologies to aid your edocument filing. XML allows you to describe data and when implemented well will allow you to find the information you're looking for quickly and easily.
