Plan to deploy Office SharePoint Server globally

For most of my customers - International deployment isnt an option. Its a requirement. I believe that most of the questions you have about deploying in a far off place - this will answer them.

Plan to deploy Office SharePoint Server globally

Updated: January 28, 2008

Many organizations support employees working in multiple sites either within a region or around the world. Microsoft currently supports three different deployment configurations to accommodate geographically dispersed sites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This planning content includes the following articles:

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Supported global solutions for Office SharePoint Server

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Extending Office SharePoint Server global solutions with Office Outlook 2007 and Office Groove software

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Design global information architecture and governance

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Plan for global enterprise search

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Plan for bandwidth requirements

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Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments

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Optimizing custom Web parts for the WAN

Additionally, the following poster-size models provide overviews of several of the planning topics:

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Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Geographically (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110982&clcid=0x409)

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Global Knowledge Management with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110983&clcid=0x409)

This planning content does not attempt to address all of the variables that might affect the deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 across multiple geographic sites. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 teams at Microsoft welcome your requests for additional content or testing related to this topic. Send feedback and requests to O12ITdx@microsoft.com, or add comments to the TechNet version of this content online.

Recommended knowledge

The material presented in this content requires an understanding of Office SharePoint Server 2007, including the following:

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Office SharePoint Server 2007 features, including indexing, search, My Sites, profiles, and alerts

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Capacity planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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Administration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

For more information about these topics, see Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 .

Terminology

This content uses terminology that can mean different things for different organizations. To ensure consistency for the reading audience, the following terms are defined.

Term
Definition

Central site

The location that hosts the majority of corporate data and/or employee computers connected by using a local area network (LAN). Corporate servers at the central site are typically contained within a data center.

Regional site

A location that hosts a subset of corporate data and/or employee computers connected together by using a combination of LAN and WAN links. A regional site is connected to a central corporate site by using a WAN link.

For purposes of this paper, a regional site can be one of the following:

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A site located in a different region or country.

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A site separated by insufficient network links (even if the site is within reasonable proximity to the central site).

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A site physically separated from the central site but otherwise well-connected (such as a government agency or branch office).

Local user

A user that connects to a central site by using a LAN.

Regional user

A user that works primarily at a regional site and connects to a central site by using a WAN.

LAN (Local Area Network)

A short-distance network connection between computers. Typically, a LAN connects computers within a single location with bandwidth of at least 10 MB.

WAN (Wide Area Network)

A long-distance network connection between computers. Typically a WAN connects computers across multiple geographic locations with a bandwidth of less than 45 MB.

Data center

The physical location of corporate servers, data, and applications.

Plan to deploy Office SharePoint Server globally