The ‘SharePoint Products and Technologies Teams Blog’ announced the availability of the new SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide. This guide provides the “cliff notes” to SharePoint Deployment.

Outlin of the Guide:

  • Differences between WSS 3.0, SharePoint Server Standard and SharePoint Server Enterprise editions
  • Bulletted Sample SharePoint Server Deployment Plan
  • Checklists for IA, Taxonomy, Training, PM and Ops including sample SLAs and roles, Dev considerations, Infra, Dev and Test env, DR and HA and applicable descriptions (on the back) including a master page wireframe
  • Deployment Roles Diagram
  • Containment Hierarchy
  • Common Physical Toplogies
  • Intranet Governance Model (Pyramid)
  • 10 Steps to a succesful deployment
  • Deployment Flow Chart Role Swimlanes
  • Links and Additional Resource

You can download the guide directly from Microsoft.