SharePoint: Nah, Not Complex at All
August 5, 2008
Microsoft has made available additional SharePoint documentation. If you have been wondering what other Microsoft servers you need, Microsoft spells it out. As an added bonus, Microsoft helps you plan for the hardware you will need to get the most out of your SharePoint environment. To get this information, navigate to a “sharepoint archive” here. The information comes from the helpful crowd at the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, which is, of course, the official blog of the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group.
Two 30 page white papers were quite helpful to me. The first is “Search and Indexing” here and the second is “Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farm Architecture” here. Note: both are Word files with some code snippets but no diagrams. I had to visualize some of the constructs, and it gave me a headache. You will probably find the Microsoft explanation exactly what you need to build out your SharePoint server farm.
This Web page provides links to more white papers and videos in case you like to dig into SharePoint by kicking back and watching the tube.
The one comment that stuck with me was the reference to Microsoft Forefront, a security product I had forgotten about. Here’s the passage from “Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farm Architecture” that grabbed me:
Microsoft Forefront™ Security for SharePoint is a purpose-built product that you can use to protect your Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 deployment from malicious code, undesirable content, and disclosure of confidential information.
Like Oracle, Microsoft is urging licensees to get YASP; that is, yet another server product. One would think with the fleet of servers required to make SharePoint work, security would be baked in. Silly me.
Stephen Arnold, August 5, 2008
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