Summary

Planning and designing the SharePoint 2003 infrastructure requires a thorough understanding of the current network environment as well as the document management and collaboration processes and tools currently in use. After this information is collected, the hardware configuration can be sketched out, and the high-level Windows SharePoint Services site collection or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal environment can be mapped out. The hardware decisions may well change in more complex portal environments as the stakeholders and decision makers work through the different design and security issues outlined in this chapter. After the different areas presented in this chapter have been discussed and decisions have been made and agreed to by the design team, a design document can be created that can be used as a guide to move into the testing process.