Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

12 Part I: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies
In SharePoint Team Services, the term for the top-level content directory of a
Web server is root Web site. In a multihosting environment, each virtual Web server
that is configured on the Web server contains one top-level (root Web) site. Additionally,
the term for a site within a root website in SharePoint Team Services is
subweb. Subweb is a term adopted from Microsoft FrontPage websites (the original
technology on which SharePoint Team Services was built). You can create multiple
subwebs in a root Web site, and you can create subwebs within other subwebs.
In SharePoint Portal Server 2001, the term for the top-level content directory of
a Web server is workspace. The term for a site within a workspace is subdashboard.
You can create additional subdashboards and personal dashboards for subprojects
and individual users.
In the latest version of SharePoint Products and Technologies, the term site (in
the SDK, the term site is called myweb) replaces the previous terms. There are two
types of SharePoint sites you can use to divide site content into distinct, separately
manageable sites: top-level websites and subsites. A top-level SharePoint site is the
parent site of all sites in a site collection. Top-level websites can contain multiple
subsites, and subsites can also contain multiple subsites, continuing for as many levels
as your users require. You can use this hierarchy to create a main subsite for your
entire team and create individual subsites or shared sites for side projects. Top-level
websites and subsites permit different levels of control over site features and settings.
Single-Server Scenario
SharePoint Products and Technologies supports both vertical, single-server solutions
and horizontal, server farm solutions. This section describes a single-server
configuration.
One of the minimum system requirements for Windows SharePoint Services is
the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Additionally, you must install and configure
Internet Information Services (IIS) and ASP.NET before you install Windows
SharePoint Services. When you install Windows SharePoint Services, it creates and
configures a virtual server named SharePoint Central Administration. Additionally, if
you install Windows SharePoint Services in a single-server configuration, it automatically
extends the existing default website that was created when you installed IIS.
Windows IIS websites are also referred to as IIS virtual Web servers, virtual
servers, or v-servers. In addition to the two default IIS virtual servers that are created
when you install Windows SharePoint Services, you can configure as many as nine
end-user virtual servers with separate application pools or 99 end-user virtual servers
with a shared application pool on a single Windows Server 2003–based computer.
Each IIS virtual server can host multiple SQL Server content stores. (For a
discussion of application pools, please consult the Internet Information Services 6.0
Resource Kit, Microsoft Press 2003.)