Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

Chapter 7
Architecting SharePoint
Products and Technologies
for Operating System
Topologies
In this chapter:
Specific Requirements for Server and Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Administrative Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
User Account Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Controlling Access to Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Active Directory–Dependent Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Specific Requirements for Server and Client
The latest versions of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies have specific
requirements for software and for domain membership. Both Microsoft Office Share-
Point Portal Server and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services must be installed on
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and most, but not all, configurations require that the
server running either of these applications be a member of a domain. Of course, all
features are available if the domain is a Windows Server 2003 domain, but what if a
network environment does not have a Windows Server 2003 domain? In a Microsoft
Windows NT domain environment, SharePoint Products and Technologies have
much of the same functionality.
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