My Two Bits

SharePoint Governance

Almost every other customer wanted this information during my visits. I expect you'll find that your more enlightened customers will love these resources. Use it in your discussions and also to enhance your own understanding of SharePoint usage.

Previously Released:

• Compliance features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system –
  This whitepaper helps you understand top to bottom what you get and what you need to build around compliance.

• Robert Bogue's SharePoint Governance, Part 1 & Part 2
  Robert a SharePoint MVP does a great job of providing a list from Infrastructure to Branding to help you understand what needs to be taken into consideration.

New Whitepapers:

• Information architecture in SharePoint Server 2007 – Scott Case, Interknowlogy

  This case study describes the process by which a fictitious company plans, customizes and deploys an Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation in a large organization.

• SharePoint Products and Technologies customization policy – Sean Livingston, (previously of MS IT now WSS Upgrade PM)

  Learn about the range of customizations available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. For each type of customization, the author provides recommendations on whether to support the customization at various levels of IT service and provides details on the potential support issues.

• Sample governance plan – Mark Wagner, MCS

  Use this governance plan template to create your own enterprise governance plan, including defining governance roles and responsibilities, operations policies, training, and resources.

• Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment – UA: Brenda Carter

  With these sample models you can better plan out how many farms, how many SSPs, and how many web applications you need.

Tools:

• http://www.codeplex.com/governance

  This workspace includes various community tools and solutions.  Tools are featured here:

• MS IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 – This event handler deployed as a feature, will simply backup the site to a specific location on disk before the site or site collection is deleted making it easy to retrieve sites that are deleted by mistake.  This simple tool provides manageability saving time and money allowing IT to focus on more important tasks.

• MS IT Site Life Cycle Manager beta 1 – This tool helps you notify owners of sites where sites are no longer in use and automates the locking and backing up and archiving of sites that are no longer needed.  This helps remove the "junk" reducing storage needs and hence optimize search results.

• Links to various partners and free tools including programmatically enabling auditing with code samples from Ted Pattison on MSDN.

Blogs

• SharePoint Solutions Teched Buzz on SharePoint Governance
• SharePoint Governance - Key to a Successful Deployment
• DoD 5015.2 certification for MOSS 2007
• Management and Governance Resources