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Classic SharePoint architecture is typically built using a hierarchical system of site collections and sub-sites, with inherited navigation, permissions, and site designs. Once built, this structure can be inflexible and difficult to maintain. In the modern SharePoint experience, sub-sites are not recommended.
Information architecture covers 6 main elements that relate to way finding in SharePoint: Global navigational structure – Considered the top level of navigation across your SharePoint tenant and how you structure your sites so that users can find content including the home site of your intranet.
Which is the best way to structure SharePoint sites?
Stay away from Option 1 unless you are a large firm with really large departments or business units. For most of the other organizations, either Option 2 or 3 is the way to go. You cannot go wrong with Option 3 – in my opinion, this is the best option for most organizations – flexible and scalable.
Why do you need a flat SharePoint architecture?
In the new “flat” world of modern SharePoint, plan to create one site for each discrete topic, task, or unit of work. This will allow you to easily distribute management and accountability for each content collection and support your ability to move sites around in your navigational architecture without breaking links.
Everything within a site collection will also share some things, like the list of SharePoint groups. When you create security groups in SharePoint, they’re shared by the entire site collection—the structure of sites or boxes that are linked together.
Master pages define the shared framing elements-the chrome-for all pages in your site.
A SharePoint architect is a software engineer serving a specific function related to SharePoint within their organization. Unlike more general computer engineers, SharePoint architects are focused on mapping functions and features of a solution to the Microsoft SharePoint program.
What is a SharePoint topology?
A collection of servers (web, database, index) that together make up a SharePoint Installation – aka Topology. You can do all this (web/datababase/index etc) on a single server in “Simple Installation” mode in which case you don’t need a NLB. For many small businesses this is plenty enough.