To the SharePoint : Governance

New SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Content

supotter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:35:00 GMT

The SharePoint IT Pro content team is proud to announce the launching of our new SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Tech Center and our related set of Technical Articles. In addition, we have launched the SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) Tech Center and its related Technical Articles. We will keep this content up to date with timely information to help you design, build, and deploy SharePoint sites and solutions. We have launched these sites with an initial set of Beta content and we will add lots of additional content throughout the Beta and on through the product release.

Although we are excited about this new content, there is too much to list it all. So here are some highlights, listed by SharePoint product areas:

Business Connectivity Services

· Business Connectivity Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Business Connectivity Services overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Manage the Business Data Connectivity service (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Manage the Business Data Connectivity service (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Business Connectivity Services model

· Business Connectivity Services Resource Center

Social Computing

· Plan for social computing and collaboration

· User Profile Service overview

· Plan polices for user profiles

· Plan for collaboration sites

Managed Metadata

· Managed metadata planning

· Managed metadata overview

· Managed metadata operations

Records Management

· Using a records archive versus managing records in place

Document Management

· About document management

· Identify users and analyze document usage

· Document library planning

· Content type and workflow planning

· Information management policy planning

Digital Asset Management

· Digital asset management overview

· Plan digital asset management

Web Content Management

· Themes overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Plan for using themes (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Plan for caching and performance

· Configure Document Conversions Load Balancer and Launcher Services

Workflows

· Plan for workflow security and user management (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Plan for approval and review processes in workflows (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Choose a workflow authoring tool (SharePoint Foundation)

· Workflow deployment processes (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Workflow deployment processes (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Configure global workflow settings (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Configure global workflow settings (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Manage workflows (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Manage workflows (SharePoint Server 2010)

· Monitor workflows (SharePoint Foundation 2010)

· Monitor workflows (SharePoint Server 2010)

Governance and Security

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Thanks,

Susan Potter
SharePoint IT Pro content team

Sample governance plans: Internet and intranet presence deployments

Judy Cowan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:06:00 GMT

We recently published the following sample governance plans:

Sample governance plan (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=163922) for an intranet portal deployment based on Office SharePoint 2007. The plan, written by Joel Oleson with contributors John Ross, Jennifer Mason, and Paul Culmsee, can help you identify key considerations for planning this scenario.

Sample governance plan (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162416) for a SharePoint Internet presence deployment based on Office SharePoint 2007. The plan, written by Joel Oleson and Nicola Young, can help you identify key considerations for planning an Internet presence scenario.

The following list shows several elements that should be part of your governance plan:

· Lines of ownership for business and technical teams.

· Service delivery requirements for business and IT.

· Information architecture.

· Levels of support.

· Education and training plan.

The sample plans provide more detailed descriptions of these and other elements you should consider.

To find more governance articles and tools, visit our Governance Resource Center.

If you have ideas for governance topics, or want to comment on our existing content, please let me know.

Thank you,

Judy Cowan

Writer, SharePoint Enterprise Solutions UA

What's your governance plan?

oscarblog — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:20:00 GMT

Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish in your enterprise to guide, direct, and control the use of technologies to accomplish business goals.

Two fundamental areas within SharePoint require governance: The IT services that host Office SharePoint Server 2007, and the information management and architecture for your portals and other Office SharePoint Server sites. A governance plan contains a record of your decisions about these areas and drives your deployment of SharePoint Products and Technologies solutions.

We've just published a sample governance plan (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=146768&clcid=0x409) for a SharePoint collaboration service based on Office SharePoint Server 2007. The plan, written by Joel Oleson, can help you identify key considerations for an IT service implementation.

The following list shows several elements that should be part of your governance plan:

· Lines of ownership for business and technical teams.

· Service delivery requirements for business and IT.

· Customization policy.

· Site management storage and lifecycle policies.

· Education and training plan.

The sample plan provides more detailed descriptions of these and other elements that comprise a comprehensive governance plan.

Our thanks to Joel Oleson for writing this plan. To find more governance articles and tools, visit our Governance Resource Center.

We know that governance is an area of concern for our IT customers. If you have ideas for governance topics, or want to comment on our existing content, please let me know.

Thank you,

Judy Cowan

Writer, SharePoint Enterprise Solutions UA

New SharePoint governance content

oscarblog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:06:00 GMT

Hi. I’m Rob Silver – one of the writers covering SharePoint Products and Technologies for the IT pro audience at Microsoft. I’m excited to announce two new articles that we are publishing this week. They are both related to SharePoint governance. Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place in an enterprise to guide the development, adoption, and use of a solution based on SharePoint Products and Technologies. We know that this is an area of concern for our IT audiences and we will continue adding content to enhance our coverage of SharePoint governance.

Here are the articles we are publishing this week:

· Increasing SharePoint engagement (white paper): SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue has written many popular white papers. His new paper defines the problem of increasing Office SharePoint Server 2007 engagement in an organization, identifies typical engagement-blockers, and suggests strategies to increase engagement at the team, departmental, and enterprise levels.

· Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations: The ability to customize sites by adding custom solutions gives Office SharePoint Server 2007 power and flexibility. However, a poorly designed or implemented executable module that runs in a SharePoint farm can do harm even beyond the scope of the Web application for which it was intended. To help you ensure that the solutions that you deploy provide the intended benefits without exposing the enterprise to unnecessary risk, you can require developers to submit a checklist to verify that their solutions have been coded and tested according to best practices. Use this sample code acceptance checklist as a starting point for your own checklist to help verify the quality of solutions that are submitted for deployment.

I hope you find both these articles useful as you work out your approach to governing SharePoint and increasing SharePoint engagement. If you are interested in governance, be sure to visit our Governance Resource Center for more governance articles and tools.

Thanks,
Rob