Microsoft® SharePoint™ 2003 Unleashed, Second Edition

Best Practices

• The organization must make a decision about what level of client access to provide early in the design process to ensure that the client access is fine-tuned for the different types of users who will be accessing the SharePoint 2003 sites. The four choices outlined in this chapter are as follows:

  • Restrict access to SharePoint 2003 internal users. This is the most secure and simplest configuration to implement and support but does not fully leverage SharePoint 2003's features and capabilities. This configuration is well suited to organizations with high levels of security that want to protect their documents and data that will be stored in SharePoint 2003 sites.

  • Allow employees external access to SharePoint 2003. This configuration ...