In Chapter 2, Planning a SharePoint Farm, we looked at some basic concepts describing how SharePoint environments are composed: farms, built of individual servers hosting services, service applications, and site collections. While site collections are a way to organize content and resources, they are also a security boundary and control plane, meaning that we can set limits at that level that control what types of things can be configured or enabled in the sites associated with that site collection.

In this chapter, we're going to look at the core planning and deployment components related to site and site collection architecture:

• Planning and configuring the site collection architecture
• Planning for fast site creation
• Planning and configuring modern team and communication sites
• Planning and configuring modern lists and libraries
• Planning and configuring...