Distribute Help over an Intranet

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Microsoft Corporation

Updated June 10, 1999

Help topics can be distributed over an intranet, which is a communications network based on the same technology as the World Wide Web that is available only to people within a certain organization or company. Intranets are protected from unauthorized entrance by a firewall, a computer that refuses entrance to those without proper access privileges. All or part of an intranet site can contain help topics that a user with access privileges can view, copy, or download to their computer.

HTML files distributed on an intranet will reach only those who can connect to the private network on which they are located. The information in them can be confidential and designed specifically for the company or organization using the intranet.

What do you want to know more about?

	Setting up information types to select the audience that topics will be delivered to
	Planning for help Web site updating and management
	Creating help
	Registering your help Web site with search engines
	Distributing topics over the Internet, an intranet, or an extranet