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Bob Mixon’s class on deploying SharePoint in the enterprise is now being offered online. It will next be delivered on July 7th. It’s a great opportunity to be exposed to ideas such as enterprise information architecture, governance, and implementing SharePoint without the travel! Register Today (read more...)

One of the most confusing subjects for me to grasp early on was understanding the SharePoint hierarchy. I couldn’t tell a web application from a site collection. It confused me to no end. Well, after much study it seems rather simple now! Here’s a diagram with a short explanation. At the top of the hierarchy are server farms. This encompasses all the physical servers that comprise your SP installation. It may consist of one server or twenty. When you run the SP configuration wizard after installing MOSS/WSS you either create a new server farm (read more...)