Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

198 Part III: Planning and Deployment
Logical Deployment Considerations
The following are considerations for deploying SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in an
organization:
■ A corporate portal site for all employees. This is a required component of
all SharePoint Portal Server 2003 installations. This portal site will usually use
Windows Shared Services if multiple portal sites are present but not required.
See Chapter 14 for more information on Shared Services.
■ Divisional portal sites for each division or project. Additional portal
sites can be created for divisions or important projects within the organization.
Additional portal sites are not required, but medium and large deployments
will usually have many portal sites.
■ Team site collection. The team site collection will encompass teams and
topics that are too small to warrant their own portal site. Team site collections
can be hosted in the corporate portal site or its respective divisional portal site.
A cross-corporate site collection can also be created to facilitate team sites that
do not easily fall into a specific divisional portal site. The cross-corporate site
collection is almost always stored in the corporate portal site.
■ A My Site for each employee. My Sites are personal sites for each user. My
Sites are optional in a portal site deployment. Each My Site is a SharePoint site
with a special template applied. The user who owns the My Site will have full
control of the site and can customize it as she wants. Architecturally, each My
Site is considered a single Site collection.
■ Security. Security considerations must be discussed and determined. By
default, authenticated users will have reader access to everything in the portal
site. All domain users will be authenticated users, therefore all users will have
reader access to everything until the permissions are changed. Security should
be planned before deploying SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Please refer to
Chapter 24, “Information Security Policies for SharePoint Products and Technologies,”
for additional information on security practices.
Planning Services and User Accounts
There are two groups of accounts to plan for:
■ Services accounts, which are used to run services such as SQL Server and
SharePoint Portal Server
■ User accounts, such as search, indexing, application pools, and administrative
accounts