Planning guide for server farms and environments for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

This book provides information and guidelines for making decisions about system architecture for a deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Subjects include system requirements, authentication, and business continuity management. Capacity planning information is provided in a separate book (link follows). The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are planning a solution based on SharePoint Server 2010. This book is part of a set of four planning guides that provide comprehensive IT planning information for SharePoint Server. For information about planning for capacity and performance in SharePoint Server 2010, see Capacity planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. For information about planning for sites and solutions created by using SharePoint Server, see Planning guide for sites for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Part 1 and Planning guide for sites and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Part 2. The content in this book is a copy of selected content in the SharePoint Server 2010 technical library as of the publication date. For the most current content, see the technical library on the Web.