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 servers in a single SharePoint farm.
Consider the use of network load balancing failover technology on the front-end SharePoint web servers of midsized to large SharePoint deployments.
Deploy MSCS clustering technologies for the database servers of large SharePoint deployments.
Use Office 2003 components at the client level for the best integration with SharePoint Technologies.
Deploy SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with Exchange Server 2003 for the most robust messaging and collaboration environment.
Integrate SharePoint with BizTalk Server 2002 to control, manage, and centralize access to business process data. This allows intelligent business decisions to be made more easily.
Use SharePoint document libraries to address the problems of redundant creation of documents and inefficient document collaboration in an environment.
Utilize SharePoint's Search and Indexing capabilities to efficiently search across different types of content.
Use SharePoint document libraries and versioning to avoid the excessive use of email attachments during document collaboration.
Utilize metadata in document libraries to effectively organize or classify content.
Deploy and utilize the features of a Windows SharePoint Services Team site such as document libraries, meeting workspaces, Tasks lists, and discussions when users need to collaborate on a common project.
Use features of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 such as content sources, search and indexing, and topics for creating a corporate intranet solution that provides centralized access to information and processes.
Utilize the extranet features of SharePoint Portal Server to manage content directed to customers outside an organization.
Map SharePoint's functionality with the specific user needs of the organization.
