In the previous chapters, we discussed SharePoint strategy, SharePoint projects, and governance approaches. Now imagine that you are sitting at your desk and you want to unleash SharePoint into the veins of the organization. This chapter discusses how to grow SharePoint capacity, build and acquire skills sets needed, and allow the reader to understand some of the hidden costs of a SharePoint deployment, and how to assess success after the first year of deployment.
A: Assuming that this is an on-premise installation, the minimal deployment would be SharePoint 2010 Foundation. It already resides on Windows 2008 servers and can be installed for no additional cost. The Content Database and all other services can reside on that one server. The caveat is future-proofing for size, traffic, and lack of features available on Standard...