Overview

From MSDN Blog: Clarifications: Collaboration vs. Publishing

In SharePoint-Land there are two concepts that people have a hard time separating out: “Collaboration” and “Content Management”. A lot of people like to blend them together, use methods, features, technology, or processes… but the truth is these are separate capabilities, and should be separately managed.

If you provision site creation within your department, you must understand the difference in the communication model.

Please take the time to read the above article to understand the dialogue that is needed to determine what communication model to use.

Understanding your communication model will make it that much easier to create and maintain your security model (the Departmental SharePoint Permissions Document). (more…)