Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Best Practices

• Manage content growth through site quotas and monitoring solutions such as Microsoft Operations Manager.

• Use Site Collections to scale SharePoint to varying groups with different security needs.

• Use Virtual Servers to manage varying types of web-based access to SharePoint sites, such as SSL-encryption or different host headers.

• Consider SQL Server 2000 log shipping for simple redundancy of SharePoint data, if clustering is not an option.

• If needing the full level of scalability with SQL Server 2000, use the Enterprise version of the software and the Windows Server 2003 operating system.

• Utilize SharePoint farms to provide for scalability beyond single server SharePoint environments.

• Don't deploy any more than four search or four index ...