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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment at MTV Networks

neeleshm — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:11:00 GMT

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment at MTV Networks

As an entertainment company, MTV Networks must continually work to ensure the free flow of information. However, the company’s previous portal infrastructure required IT involvement in order to publish new content and an excessive amount of attention from IT personnel. The company standardized on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, which today hosts intranets and multiple Internet sites for MTV Networks and Viacom. The new portal platform has improved end-user communication and collaboration, increased IT staff efficiency, and provided an extensible, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution. This white paper examines the move to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in detail, including the previous portal environment and the challenges that this environment presented, requirements and selection process for a new portal solution, development process and architecture, new portal environment and capabilities, how various business units and IT groups are benefiting, and future plans.

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SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Available to Qualified Customers Worldwide on May 19th!

neeleshm — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:05:00 GMT

SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Available to Qualified Customers Worldwide on May 19th!

On May 19th,we will announce the release of SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a new partner and MCS delivered offering designed to help Software Assurance customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint. SDPS includes a broad range of planning tools and services that help optimize the effectiveness of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server’s core capabilities (Portals & Collaboration, ECM and Search) and help lower the cost of deployment. Reception of this program has been VERY well received by both partners, customers and the field during our 4 month pilot that took place from January – April this year.

SDPS is a packaged service offering that is a benefit for customers with qualifying Software Assurance. Customers now have the flexibility to choose Desktop Deployment Planning and/or SharePoint Deployment planning services as part of their SA investment.
The number of Packaged Service days is determined by a combination of the number of qualifying Office licenses and the number of Core CAL suite and Enterprise CAL suite licenses.
Currently we have over 300 certified consultants that are available to deliver an SDPS engagement.
Over 18,000 Customers can leverage this service starting May 19th.

What does an SDPS engagement entitle customers to receive?

A 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 day deployment planning engagement will be offered depending on the customer’s SA benefit level.
The types of services delivered will depend on the length of the engagement

1. A Strategy Briefing defines the vision for achieving technical and business goals and is part of all engagements,

2. An Architectural Design Session introduces SharePoint technologies, solutions and concepts is added in a 3 Day Engagement,

3. A Deployment Planning Session covers a specific SharePoint capability in depth is added in a 5 Day Engagement, and

4. A Proof of Concept demonstrates the solution in the customer’s environment is added in a 10 and 15 day engagement.

Where do Customers find information on their SA benefit?

To determine the software assurance the customer has purchased, they must identify who, within the organization, “owns” the contract with Microsoft. This could be a legal resource, a contracting specialist, or an IT executive and is known as the Notices Contact and the Agreement Administrator. This person would receive their entitlement details at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/default.mspx.

What is the value of SDPS to Customers and Partners?

Customers

§ SDPS enables customers to obtain a roadmap to understand how to effectively deploy SharePoint within their Organization and helps remove the customer-perceived risk and cost of planning for a SharePoint deployment.

§ SDPS offers an engagement that is customized for each customer, addressing their specific business or technical challenges.

§ SDPS enables customers to get more value out of their existing Software Assurance investment, and is available to them at no additional cost.

Partners

§ Partners receive the SDPS tools, training, and support to help customers deploy SharePoint and increase their revenue in the process.

§ SDPS helps minimize the up-front partner investment and pre-sales planning and helps customers get a SharePoint deployment plan in place, opening the door for increased partner service revenue opportunity.

§ Microsoft pays qualified partners to deliver SDPS services.

Where can I find more information?

The external site for partners to register is www.microsoftsdps.com, which will point them to the new partner community center where partners can leverage SDPS selling and engagement materials at www.partnersdps.com.

Customers can understand the opportunity and benefit of SDPS as part of the Software Assurance investment at http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa.

How Many Servers? How much space do I need?.....SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

neeleshm — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:32:00 GMT

Greeting....

One of the most common questions that I get asked all the time for Sharepoint projects are;

"How many server's do I need?"

"How many Index server's do i need?"

"How much space do I need to assign for my SQL db? and so on, and so forth.

Well this is a difficult question to answer as there are so many factors which are involved in capacity and sizing of a MOSS deployment. There are many great resources on the MSDN and technet site on how to best deploy Sharepoint. One mre tool to add to your aresenal is the SharePoint Capacity Tool!

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a general-purpose modeling tool that complements SharePoint’s deployment planning documentation. With this tool and the analysis it provides, you can get a head start on planning your SharePoint topology. After you provide the tool with basic information about your organization, the tool provides a first approximation of the topology your organization needs.

Download it from here!...http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/bb961988.aspx

Ciao...

Training*** - MOSS - Self Installation Training Guide

neeleshm — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:10:00 GMT

Struggling to get some good training around MOSS to your users and customer.....Well, install the following and see the productivity grow!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=673DC932-626A-4E59-9DCA-16D685600A51&displaylang=en

Overview

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a rich set of features that allow you to build and maintain powerful intranets and Internets for your company. You can manage workflow, maintain version control, connect to business intelligence applications, track key performance indicators for your business, add blogs and wikis to improve knowledge transfer and enhance collaboration, and more.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Portal Edition, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators who want to help their end-users learn how to use the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Training topics lead the learner step-by-step through beginning to advanced features, including Collaboration, Business Processes and Forms, Portals and Personalization, Search, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management.

The Training includes videos, interactive tutorials, and articles. In addition, the material is SCORM compliant. You can easily add or remove training topics to fit your business needs. The Training also includes a reporting function that allows an administrator/trainer to track learners’ completed training topics. You can customize the Training to fit the look and feel of your own Office SharePoint Server site.

If you are an end-user, or want to view the training without installing it on an Office SharePoint Server site, please click here for the Standalone Edition.