SharePoint Best Practices
Deployment
Deployment and Customization Best Practices
Organizational Issues Whitepaper
Portal Architecture
Start with just one portal.
Reserve friendly names.
Lock down the portal database.
Create a dedicated WSS virtual server.
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki.
Portal Management
When to create a new site, area, or portal.
Provide top-level site names (e.g. myArea.myweb/).
Locking down out-of-box Web Parts and FrontPage.
User Adoption
Driving User Adoption. Rewards Systems.
Web Part Development
Best practices for Web Part development.
Ensuring reusability and upgrade safety in web part development.
SharePoint Security and Impersonation.
WSS Development
Use Web Services to access data stored in WSS lists.
Use RPCs to access SharePoint data.
Document Libraries
Use mete-data, not subfolders.
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