Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Chapter 16. Leveraging Shared Services Providers

In this chapter:
What Shared Services Are Provided with SharePoint Server 2007?
Intra-Farm versus Inter-Farm Shared Services
Designing Shared Services
Geographically Dispersed Deployments
Summary
Additional Resources

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Shared Services are a set of centralized utilities or services that are consumed at the site collection layer while their association with a Shared Services Provider (SSP) is accomplished at the Web application layer. A good analogy for Shared Services is your local utility provider. While you could burn coal to generate the needed electricity for your home or business, it is almost always more cost efficient to purchase a shared utility from ...