Supplemental documentation for Windows SharePoint Services
Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-14
Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 files (.vsd), PDF files, and XPS files. You might need extra software to view these files. See the following table for information about opening these files.
| File type | Software |
|---|---|
.vsd |
Office Visio 2007, or the free Visio viewer (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=118761&clcid=0x409) If you use the Visio viewer, right-click the VSD link, click Save Target As, save the file to your computer, and then open the file from your computer. |
Any PDF viewer, such as Adobe Reader (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134751&clcid=0x409) |
|
.xps |
Windows Vista, Windows XP with .NET Framework 3.0, or XPS Essentials Pack (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=134750&clcid=0x409) |
For information about printing the posters on smaller paper and creating your own posters, see Tips for using posters.
Models
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
Model: Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Visio (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73104) PDF (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=136971) XPS (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=136972) |
Includes a model for a single server in-place upgrade, a server farm gradual upgrade, and a gradual upgrade topology overview for upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. |
Model: Windows SharePoint Services Topologies Visio (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73110) PDF (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=136974) XPS (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=136973) |
Includes a model of Windows SharePoint Services topologies that includes topology design principles, data communication within a farm, scalability, and an example of a scalability topology. |
Scenarios
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
Scenario: Department Deployment of Windows SharePoint Services with Scale Path (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73111) |
Provides diagrams and an overview that explain the recommended deployment topologies, application design plan, and operations tasks for department deployment of Windows SharePoint Services with scale path. |
Scenario: ISP Hosting of Windows SharePoint Services Sites (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73112) |
Provides diagrams and an overview that explain the recommended deployment topologies, application design plan, Web application and site collection hierarchies, and operations tasks for an ISP department hosting of Windows SharePoint Services sites. |
Scenario: IT Department Hosting of Windows SharePoint Services Sites (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73113) |
Provides diagrams and an overview that explain the recommended deployment plan, application design plan, and operations tasks for an IT department hosting of Windows SharePoint Services sites. |
Scenario: Windows SharePoint Services in a Small Business (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73114) |
Provides lists and diagrams that explain the recommended deployment plan, application design plan, operations tasks, and publishing process for Windows SharePoint Services in a small business. |
Scenario: Windows SharePoint Services Partner Web (Extranet) (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73115) |
Provides lists and flowcharts that explain the deployment planning process, application design plan, and key operations tasks for a Windows SharePoint Services partner extranet. |
Flowchart
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
Windows SharePoint Services Planning Flowchart (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73116) |
Provides a diagram that illustrates the process of planning and designing Windows SharePoint Services applications. |
Tips for using posters
If you have a plotter, you can print these posters in their full size. If you don’t have plotter, use the following steps to print on smaller paper.
Print posters on smaller paper
Open the poster in Office Visio.
On the File menu, click Page Setup.
On the Print Setup tab, in the Printer paper section, select the size of paper you want to print on.
On the Print Setup tab, in the Print zoom section, click Fit to, and then enter 1 sheet across by 1 sheet down.
On the Page Size tab, click Size to fit drawing contents, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Print.
If you want to create posters that use the same symbols as these posters, you can download Visio stencils for IT Pro posters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148756).