SharePoint User Group UK

Hi, can I pick your brains...

I am deploying SharePoint from the ground up at a 200 user investment bank.

Each division has their own specific requirements around doc management, workflow.  Plus they require a company focussed Intranet for all company news, benefits etc.

Just wanted your ideas on how to structure my Web Apps and which templates to use?

Im not sure whether to build the Divisional sites as Team Sites under the main Intranet Portal, or whether to create a portal for each division and customised navigation.

Whats the norm?

 

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If it bleeds, we can kill it.

For that small a number of users, seperate web apps provide little benefit. YOu'd be better off having a single web app with one corporate wide site collection and then site collections for the divisions. the corp site collection would probably be the Collab Portal template. as for the others it's all down to their individual requirements! Nested collab portals is generally a bad idea unless the user base are well versed in sharepoint.

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Cheers
Spence
www.harbar.net

Thanks Spence.  That makes sense.  They also have a parent company based in Bermuda. 

I am currently setting up a separate Farm out there (remotely unfortunately) for the 'Corporate Portal' and then including this into the navigation of the UK Portal. Does this sound reasonable to you?  Again the content wont be huge and mostly read only documents etc.

btw I have some feedback on Kerberos which I'll post in our other thread shortly.

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If it bleeds, we can kill it.

Hmmm, shame you can't wangle a trip to bermuda outta the gig...

There's no real issue with linking to the other farm assuming the bandwidth and latency to/from that site is appropriate. You may also consider aggregating this content rather than linking to it using the data view web part.

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Cheers
Spence
www.harbar.net