5060 A 02

Module 2: Planning the Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0 Environment

Determining Organizational Needs

Planning Site Creation, Maintenance, and Security

Planning Server Requirements and Topologies

Overview

Lesson 1: Determining Organizational Needs

Guidelines for Determining the Purpose of the Site

Guidelines for Determining User Needs

Guidelines for Planning Site Hierarchy

Guidelines for Determining the Purpose of the Site

Identify the site objective and the hosting environment

Identify the site features

Identify user requests

Guidelines for Determining User Needs

Identify the number of users using the site

Identify the types of users and number of users of each type

Identify user access requirements

Guidelines for Planning Site Hierarchy

Determine paths for sites

Determine the number of site collections and sites

Determine the elements to be shared among sites

Determine the elements that are unique to a site

Determine whether to create top-level sites inindividual site collections

Lesson 2: Planning Site Creation, Maintenance, and Security

Guidelines for Planning Site Creation

Guidelines for Planning Site Maintenance

Guidelines for Planning Site Security

Practice: Determining the Site Hierarchy

Guidelines for Planning Site Creation

Determine who can create sites and a method for site creation

Determine whether you need a custom site creation process

Maintain site

Manage site collections

Guidelines for Planning Site Maintenance

Guidelines for Planning Site Security

Identify security groups and site-level roles

Assign domain-level security groups and accounts to security groups and site-level roles

Determine whether anonymous user access is required

Practice: Determining the Site Hierarchy

Determine a WSS site hierarchy

Describe your organization’s security model

Lesson 3: Planning Server Requirements and Topologies

Guidelines for Planning Server Requirements

Components of Available Topologies for WSS Deployment

Guidelines for Planning Server Requirements

Estimate data capacity requirements

Estimate peak throughput

Components of Available Topologies for WSS Deployment

Single server

Small farm

Medium farm

Large farm

Identify the types of topologies and their components

Scale a topology up and out

Lab: Planning the Topology for WSS Installation

Exercise 1: Estimating Data Capacity Requirements

Exercise 2: Estimating Peak Throughput Requirements

Exercise 3: Identifying and Justifying the Topology