Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Managing Your Content

SharePoint Server 2007 provides several new and old features to help manage content that will influence you design decisions. Organizing content is only the first step in a successful SharePoint Server 2007 implementation. You also need to devise a plan to manage and access it.

Using Site Collections

When creating a new Web application in Windows SharePoint Services 2007, you are actually creating the environment to create a new site collection that can contain many subsites, document libraries, lists, and all other SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content types. Think of a site collection as a container for sites and other SharePoint content, as shown in Figure 3-4.

Figure 3-4. Site collection container ...