This document provides guidelines for planning a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment. It discusses determining organizational needs such as the purpose and users of sites. It also discusses planning site creation, maintenance and security. The document concludes by covering server requirements and available topologies for deploying WSS, including single server, small, medium and large farm topologies. Exercises are provided to estimate data capacity and throughput needs and to identify the appropriate topology.

1. Module 2: Planning the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Environment