Logical Architecture Sample Design: Corporate Deployment

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Illustrates a generic corporate deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. The model applies nearly all of the logical architecture components and illustrates how these are incorporated into the overall design. Use this model with the following article: Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment.

Architecture Design Example: Twynham School (U.K.)

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Illustrates the design architecture of Twynham School in the UK, including: server farm, shared services, users and authentication, application pools and Web applications, sites and site hierarchies, and URLs. Use this model with the following article: Example Solution Architecture: Twynham School Learning Gateway.

Architecture Example: Single School, Single Server

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Illustrates a recommended design architecture for single schools, including: server hardware, shared services, users and authentication, application pools and Web applications, sites and site hierarchies, and URLs. Use this model with the following article: Example Solution Architecture: Twynham School Learning Gateway.

Extranet Topologies for SharePoint Products and Technologies

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Illustrates the specific extranet topologies that have been tested with SharePoint Products and Technologies. Provides a comparison of ISA Server and IAG Server when used as a firewall or gateway product with SharePoint products and technologies. Use this model with the following articles:

• Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server)

• Design extranet farm topology (Windows SharePoint Services)

• Plan security hardening for extranet environments

• Plan security hardening for extranet environments (Windows SharePoint Services)

See also: Extranet hardening planning tool: back-to-back perimeter (11-by-17 printed page) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85533&clcid=0x409).

Shared Services Providers for Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Describes and illustrates Shared Services Providers (SSPs): SSP services, architectures, and common ways to build SSPs into the architecture of your overall solution design. Use this model with the following article: Plan SSP architecture.

Inter-Farm Shared Services for Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Illustrates how to deploy an SSP across farms to provide centralized administration of services. Use this model with the following article: Plan SSP architecture.

Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Geographically

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Illustrates the recommended deployment configurations for deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies across multiple locations. Use this model with the following articles:

• Supported global solutions for Office SharePoint Server

• Plan for global enterprise search

• Plan for bandwidth requirements

• Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments

Global Knowledge Management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

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Provides a design sample for managing information, and documents environments where multiple server farms are deployed. Use this model with the following article: Design global information architecture and governance.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Data Protection and Recovery model

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Provides an overview of the technologies that you can use to recycle, version, back up and restore Office SharePoint Server 2007. It also presents key issues to consider when you plan your data protection and recovery strategies.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Availability model

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Describes availability in general, costs and challenges for availability in a SharePoint Products and Technologies environment, and strategies and solutions that you can use to improve availability.

Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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Describes and illustrates the process for upgrading from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using the in-place or gradual method. Includes information about all phases of the upgrade and a diagram of how the upgrade process works. Use this model with the following articles:

• How the upgrade process works (Windows SharePoint Services)

• Determine upgrade approach [Windows SharePoint Services]

• Determine how to handle customizations (Windows SharePoint Services)

Model: Upgrading Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Page 1 of 2)

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Describes and illustrates the process for upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007 using the in-place or gradual method. Includes information about all phases of the upgrade and a diagram of how the upgrade process works. Use this model with the following articles:

• How the upgrade process works (Office SharePoint Server)

• Determine upgrade approach (Office SharePoint Server)

Model: Upgrading Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Page 2 of 2)

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Describes and illustrates the process for upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007 in an environment that includes shared services. Also includes best practices, supported topologies, special considerations for customizations, and the recommended process for uninstalling SharePoint Portal Server 2003 after the upgrade. Use this model with the following articles:

• Determine upgrade approach (Office SharePoint Server)

• Review upgrade best practices

• Review supported topologies

• Determine how to handle customizations (Office SharePoint Server)

• Perform a gradual upgrade with shared services

Model: Site Permissions for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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Provides an overview of permissions for SharePoint sites. This model includes information about basic principles in site security and reference tables of permissions and permission levels, default groups, and special user accounts and groups. Use this model with the following article:

• Plan site and content security (Office SharePoint Server)

Model: SharePoint Products and Technologies Baseline Site Hierarchies

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Provides an overview of the elements of site hierarchies, including: site collections, top-level Web sites, subsites, lists and libraries. This model explains the design principles involved in balancing isolation and scalability, plus when to choose a site collection or a subsite, based on specific goals for the site. Includes sample site hierarchy diagrams for the following: a single site collection, multiple site collections on a single Web application, multiple Web applications on a single farm, and multiple server farms. Use this model with the following articles:

• Design logical architecture

• Logical architecture components

• Plan for host-named site collections (Office SharePoint Server)

• Plan for collaboration sites

• Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)

Sample project plan: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262825.aspx)

A sample Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment project plan that was created by using Office Project 2007.

Extranet hardening planning tool: back-to-back perimeter (11-by-17 printed page) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85533)

Based on the back-to-back perimeter topology, this tool articulates the port requirements for each of the computers running Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and each of the routers or firewalls. This tool is an editable Office Visio file that you can revise for your environment.

Poster: Stsadm Technical Reference (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120150)

A printable poster of all of the Stsadm operations and properties available for Office SharePoint Server 2007, grouped by functionality.

Poster: Stsadm Technical Reference (Windows SharePoint Services) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120151)

A printable poster of all of the Stsadm operations and properties available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, grouped by functionality.

Enterprise Search: Permissions for Common Administrative Operations (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147661)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 have several levels of search administration for enterprise search. Each administrative level requires different permissions. This poster provides information about the operations that are commonly performed by search administrators at each of these levels and the permissions required at each administrative level.