“SharePoint Solution Design” document template

1. OVERVIEW
1. Background
2. Document Purpose
2. INFORMATION ARTEFACTS
1. Artefacts overview (the list of information pieces the system operates)
2. Data Flow (how data is moving across the system0
3. Usage cases (different scenarios of using information artefacts)
4. Artefacts Managing (describing how different products – sharepoint, drupal and others) can manage artefactts)
3. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
   1. Site Structure
      1. Site Maps
   2. User Interface and Branding
      1. Wireframes
      2. Navigation
      3. Branding
   3. Content Types, Columns and Lists
      1. Content Types
      2. Columns
      3. List
4. LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
   1. Feature Mapping (which features of the SharePoint are gonna be used and for which purposes)
   2. Farm Logical Architecture
   3. Web Applications
      1. Zones
      2. Managed Paths
   4. Site Collections and Content Databases
   5. Shared Services
   6. User Profile and Properties
   7. Search
   8. Audiences
   9. Service Accounts
5. CAPACITY PLANNING
6. PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE
   1. Server Topology
   2. Network Infrastructure
   3. Storage Requirements
      1. Web Front-End Servers
      2. Application Server
      3. SQL Server