There is so much great content on MSDN, but often it's hidden away, so I like to blog about these finds so I have a chance to find them in the future.
Today's find is the Design Logical Architecture for Collaboration Sites.
In particular I like the advice surrounding team sites:
Design guidance for team sites includes the following recommendations, each of which is elaborated in the following sections:
Host team sites in a dedicated Web application.
Apply Web application general settings, such as quota and life-cycle management settings at the Web application level to manage growth of team sites and to keep content current.
Design content database settings for appropriate storage and scale and to ensure that you can back up and restore databases of the designed size.
Automatically delete sites that are not used.
Use paths to organize team site URLs.
Plan for appropriate policies and permissions.
Some of my notes:
This article also feeds into another great find Logical Architecture Sample Design: Collaboration Sites