This page contains a list of guidance and best practice topics for planning and architecture for the deployment of SharePoint. I will update this list and make changes and add new information and links to articles when I come across them.

MOSS 2007 Planning and Guidance for IT Pros

• Plan for server farms  (determining # of farms, org requirements and licensing)
• Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server) & Database Mirroring
• Plan for performance and capacity (Office SharePoint Server)
• About performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server)
• Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server)
• Tools for performance and capacity planning (Office SharePoint Server)
• Performance Test Scripts and Data population for VSTT: SPDataPop WSSDW.exe
• Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment
• Performance Counters
• HP Partner White paper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary
• HP Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Sizing and Configuration tool (listed under sizers, requires free login)

Planning By Scenario

Portal & Collaboration

• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for portal collaboration environments
• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environments (Office SharePoint Server)

ECM: Records Repositories and Document Management Repositories

• Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)
• Plan enterprise content storage

ECM: Internet/Web Content Management

• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Internet Sites (New!)
• Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server)

Search

• · Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

Excel Services

• Determine resource requirements to support Excel Services

Database Maintenance and Best Practice

• Deploy SharePoint using DBA created Databases
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262869.aspx
  
• Also my previous post on the same topic and some guidance:
  http://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=89
  
• Plan for administrative and service accounts before Installing SharePoint and why you need these.
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445(TechNet.10).aspx
  
• Guidance for maintaining your server after installing SharePoint
  http://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=101
  
• Capacity Planning and Platform Hygiene
  http://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=114
  
• White paper: Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409
  
• White paper: Database maintenance for Office SharePoint Server 2007
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111531&clcid=0x409
  
• Predeployment I/O Best Practices, SQL Server Best Practices Article
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/pdpliobp.mspx
  
• Maintaining your existing SharePoint databases. Steps to to REORGANIZE or REBUILD them where a single content database with many site collections and sub-sites can get badly fragment user data and document table indexes.
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345/
  
• Recently released SharePoint Administration Toolkit for scheduling locking/moving of Site Collections between content databases
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=263cd480-f6eb-4fa3-9f2e-2d47618505f2
  
• Details about the tool and usage scenario for SharePoint Administration Toolkit
  http://www.chandima.net/Blog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=153