4.3. Planning a Site Collection Structure

A site collection is a grouping of websites with a number of common elements:

  • A shared top-level website

  • One or more subsites under the top-level site

  • A common owner for the collection

  • Shared administration settings

  • A common navigation structure

  • Other common features and elements

Based on what you learned in your tour of site templates, there are two primary areas where decisions need to be made about the SharePoint site collection structure—the portal site structure and the subsite structure.

4.3.1. Portal Sites

The following presents the different portal site decisions you can make based on your needs.

Collaboration

If you are deploying a MOSS 2007 site collection for the exclusive use of your company's ...

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