How to evaluate information architecture of your intranet sites before migrating them to MOSS.

If you are moving from 2003 to moss the best way to assess the restructuring is to logically categorize the content of sites in your current environment. Here how I did it:

Create a list in excel with the following columns:

• Site Name
  
• Site URL
  
• Purpose
  
• Target audience,
  
• Region
  
• Owner
  
• Owner Contact info
  
• Secondary owner
  
• Secondary owner contact info
  

You may have additional columns but these should be the base. Once this list is created you can then determine how content should be grouped. You want to group together sites that target the same audience. For example, if the content on the site target's users in a division your MOSS implementation would have a collection for the division. The top level site would be the homepage for the division and then each department's site would be a sub site.