My company currently uses SharePoint 2007. Our farm has one web front end and our intranet is a single site collection with 25 team sites and a few subsites. We have approxmiately 150 users and steadily increasing. We are planning to upgade to 2013, have decided not to migrate but instead build from the ground up.
Based on our data, documents, lists, etc., we have discussed having multiple site collections with associated team sites instead of one big site collection and we are looking for suggestions as to which way would be the right way for our farm.
What we are sure of is that we do not want to just migrate as is and run 2013 the same way as we run 2007. I know we can leverage the new features and want to make sure our new site(s) are properly structured.
Thanks in advance for your input!
I totally agree with Vlad. I would separate them out into separate site collections based on the reasons listed. The one drawback like he said is that you don’t get the consistent navigation out of the box. For 2007 & 2010 you had to write your own site map provider or some other custom solution, however it sounds like for 2013 there are other options that are closer to out of box.
