Administration Requirements

Administration across the board is much more challenging for an enterprise-wide deployment than a departmental-based Portal solution for one primary reason—complexity. The number of servers, roles of those servers, and the specific or custom hardware and software configurations deployed drive administration complexity. The Active Directory design, and inclusion of each server into this design, also presents challenges to administration, especially in highly distributed solutions.

The Need for Greater Manageability

Enterprise-wide SharePoint Portal Server implementations leveraging structured processes require greater management capabilities over their information. They need capabilities like formal publishing processes ...

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