Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Governing Site Collections and Sites

Site collections and sites will require more governance than the Central Administration tools and environment because typically some of the day-to-day management of the site collections and sites is distributed to a wider group of IT staff and end users. Although some organizations do retain complete control over site and site collection settings, this is often seen to be overly heavy-handed and users, especially user with significant SharePoint experience, will push back. Furthermore, the workload will increase over time for the help desk performing menial tasks such as modifying views, tweaking .aspx pages, and changing user permissions.

Chapter 21, “Designing and Managing Pages and Sites for Knowledge ...