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Instructor
Notes
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The Farm is
the highest-level scope for a WSS deployment. It represents an installation
of one of more Web servers and back-end servers and has exactly one
configuration database associated with it.
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A Web Application
is an IIS Web site extended to use WSS. In WSS V2, the term "Virtual
Server" was used to mean the same thing. This is important because the
object model provides the SPVirtualServer class to program against a Web
application. A Web application is capable of hosting 10,000s of site
collections.
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A Site Collection
is a container for WSS sites that must exist within a specific content
database. A site collection always contains a top-level site and can
optionally contain child site below. The site collection is a unit of
ownership, secure-ability and recoverability. Back in the WSS V1 days, site
collections were called "sites" and consequently the object model
provides an SPSite object to program against site collections.
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A site is a
container that holds pages and content and it must exist within a specific
site collection. Back in the WSS V1 days, sites were called "webs"
and consequently the object model provides an SPWeb object to program against
sites.
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