Why should you care about managing your SharePoint deployment?
Before you deploy SharePoint into your organisation you need to plan on how you would manage your deployment. The most important aspects of managing your deployment is from a business and a technical perspective.
From a business side you will need to have setup guidelines and governance plans for your workspaces and sites that are being used for collaboration etc. In a best practice deployment these need to be planned from a end user perspective as well as from a business value perspective. No matter what the technology is, if you don’t plan to address inherent issues that are present within the organisation they will always prevail.
To mitigate these business owners and stakeholders should provide clear guidance and plan the use of meta data, content types, site usage, search rules and keywords. Plus these should be reviewed periodically to assess that the expected business outcomes have been met. It is typical that projects that start with a hiss and a roar sometimes end up not being reviewed once the original teams and stakeholders have been disbanded. Organisations who chose SharePoint as a strategic business enabling platform should most certainly want to establish a team who are capable of managing and supporting the business on an ongoing basis.
For you and your team plan for SharePoint governance the following resources should be used as guidelines. It is important to note that these will need to be adopted to best suit your end user needs. These guidelines are good starting points to understand what you should and should not do in your deployment.
SharePoint Products and Technologies customization policy
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.
**Windows SharePoint Services manageability controls **
This paper, along with Supporting Information Architecture with Windows SharePoint Services Manageability Controls and Implementing Windows SharePoint Services Governance, will guide your organization through designing and implementing a governed, manageable Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment.
Additional Content
- Sample governance plan Governance checklist guide White paper: Compliance features in the 2007 Microsoft Office system White paper: Steps for building governance into SharePoint Server 2007 Robert Bogue’s SharePoint Governance, Part 1 Robert Bogue’s SharePoint Governance, Part 2
Technical Library Content
- Planning and architecture for SharePoint Server 2007 Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment Understand workflow Create quota templates
Developer Content on Governance
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