I would appreciate a confirmation from any SharePoint Admin Guru's on how I am going to structure the Site Collections under a Web App that I am creating for DEPARTMENTS. I am about to setup our production environment, and want to ensure the way I set this up on my test environment is best practice. So when the Web App gets set up, it creates a root site collection. In test, I didn't do anything with that root. Instead, I followed and setup separate site collections for each department...MGMT, IT, HR, MKTG, QA... I'm concerned about that root. Does it even matter if it gets used, will it cause a conflict later, or should I use the root as one of the department sites. I apologize that I am a novice, so your feed back will be greatly appreciated.
So here is the root: http://ndshutch:35530
Here is the individual site collection: http://ndshutch:35530/depts/mktgcomn
I also want to see a more meaningful url. How can I make that url different.
Thank you in advance!
Katillac