As you plan your Microsoft SharePoint Portal
Server deployment, you'll need to answer these
essential questions:
- Who owns the information in the portal?
- What processes and rules are associated with
information maintenance?
- Who will be responsible for maintaining the
information?
- Who can view the information, and where can it
be viewed?
SharePoint Portal Server and Windows Share-
Point Services provide various features for
managing and presenting information to users.
But in my experience helping companies with
their SharePoint portal projects, I've too often
found that the project's designers blur the lines
between how information is stored and how it's
presented. For your portal design to succeed, you
need to separate the information-storage and
presentation aspects and, at the same time, keep
in mind SharePoint's technology limitations and
features.