Personally, I am in favour of a liberal use of site collections. In short, when in doubt, or unless I have a good reason for creating a sub-site, my default choice is a new site collection. Having site collections really sets IT up with greater freedom...

File types are associated to an icon in SharePoint by mapping a particular file extension to a specific icon. This makes the file easily recognizable to end users as they navigate a site and skim a document library. For licensing reasons, only a select...

The first server in a SharePoint farm that runs the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard provisions the SharePoint Central Administration web application and SharePoint configuration database. This Central Administration web application...

Installing SharePoint using the GUI works really well and makes the install process pretty simple. Using the Command Prompt to perform the install on the other hand probably gives you a better sense for what is being done. It certainly gives you more...

Delegating administration duties for a SharePoint Shared Service Provider (SSP) separates duties while keeping the environment secure and practicing the principle of least privilege. The process to grant access to other administrators might not be so...

SharePoint has the concept of managed and unmanaged paths. As the names imply, managed are paths that SharePoint processes and handles such as sites and site collections. Unmanaged on the other hand are those paths that are outside of SharePoint and are...