Designing the Windows SharePoint Services Environment

The differences between Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 have been discussed previously in this book, along with pros and cons of the different options, so these differences will not be addressed again at this point. If the organization has chosen to implement Windows SharePoint Services the following sections will apply. If the organization is implementing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 the sections on Windows SharePoint Services design considerations are still valuable because the site collections in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are created by Windows SharePoint Services.

Defining the Top-Level Sites

Top-level sites play an important role in both Windows SharePoint ...

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