Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and - Helion
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Autor: William Nagle, Michael Hinckley, Paul Galvin, Richard Harbridge, Pavlo Andrushkiw, Peter WardTytuł oryginału: Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and ebook
ISBN: 9781849686112
stron: 236, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2012-05-24
Księgarnia: Helion
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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and eBook -- spis treści
- Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Instant Updates on New Packt Books
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
- Preface
- Why this book
- Going off the rails
- How this book will save you money, and, just possibly, your career
- Example: The .NET developer
- How to use this book
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Defining a SharePoint IT Strategy
- Q: Can you define what a strategy is?
- Q: What is an IT strategy?
- Q: How do you create a SharePoint IT strategy?
- Day 1: Diagnostics
- Intro to workshop discussion
- Company background discussion
- The Focus on IT environment discussion
- Current IT core applications discussion
- Future IT core applications discussion
- Review discussion
- Day 2: The treatment plan
- Initial findings and review discussion
- The Gap analysis
- Priorities, actions, and agreement
- Review discussion
- Day 3: A successful SharePoint implementation plan
- Next steps discussion
- Summary and close out
- Day 1: Diagnostics
- Q: What is the intended outcome of the workshop?
- Q: Who needs to be involved with the process?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: Do I need to get the CEO involved?
- Q: Why is a SharePoint strategy different than other IT products?
- Q: What are the pitfalls of a SharePoint strategy?
- Q: Why do we really need an IT strategy?
- Digging deeper
- Q: Any final words of advice on this?
- Summary
- 2. Just Enough Governance
- Q. What is governance?
- Q. Why do we need it?
- Q: So where do I start with governance?
- Q: Who should be involved with SharePoint governance?
- Case study: Include everyone
- Q: Is it worth hiring a consulting firm to create your companys governance documentation?
- Q: Why does it seem that SharePoint requires more governance than other technologies?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: How do you define "just enough governance"?
- Q: How do I strike this so-called "balance"?
- Q: Well, we have got this far without governance with SharePoint, so why bother?
- Q: Our existing governance plan hasn't improved deployments or reduced frustrations; any suggestions?
- Q: Won't governance slow down the speed of innovation?
- Digging deeper
- Q: Where can I find further information on a governance approach with SharePoint?
- Summary
- 3. Deployment Roadmap
- Q: Which edition of SharePoint is right for me?
- SharePoint Foundation
- SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
- SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
- FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint 2010
- SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard
- SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise
- Microsoft Office 365
- FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Sites
- Q: Where should I deploy SharePoint? What choices do I really have?
- On-premise
- Hosted
- Cloud
- Hybrid
- So what do I choose?
- Q: What about licensing? What are my options and how much will it cost?
- What edition of SharePoint does my company need?
- Who are my end users?
- How many servers will run SharePoint?
- How many people or devices will access SharePoint?
- Is my company licensed for the Microsoft products that are needed to run SharePoint?
- Enterprise Agreement
- Q: SharePoint 2010 Development, Quality Assurance, Production how many farms do I actually need?
- Q: What do I need to know about storage requirements and their impact on my deployment strategy?
- Estimating content database storage
- Data scale
- Q: Intranet, extranet which SharePoint topology is right for me?
- Intranets
- Extranets
- Public-facing Internet sites
- Q: What about authentication for end users; what options are available to me?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: Is there any way for me to migrate my existing licenses, instead of having to obtain new ones?
- Q: What do I need to know about web browsers, tablets, and mobile phones?
- Web browsers
- Mobile phones
- Tablets
- Q: Why are companies resistant to My Sites; can this attitude ever change?
- Q: I've heard that Office 2010 is the only version that integrates with SharePoint 2010. Is this true, and what are some other MS products that integrate with SharePoint 2010?
- Disaster recovery
- Antivirus
- Security
- Monitoring and management
- Project management
- Business intelligence
- Client applications
- Digging deeper
- SharePoint editions
- SharePoint licensing
- Capacity planning
- Extranet topologies
- Public-facing SharePoint sites
- Authentication mechanisms
- Summary
- Q: Which edition of SharePoint is right for me?
- 4. SharePoint in the Clouds
- Q: What options do I actually have for cloud-based SharePoint 2010?
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Community cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Q: How can I use Amazon Web Services for SharePoint 2010?
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon Elastic Block Store
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Q: This doesn't sound like a turn-key solution. Where does Amazon's responsibility end and where does mine begin?
- Amazon infrastructure
- Windows infrastructure
- SharePoint infrastructure
- Q: Can I create a Microsoft private cloud solution for SharePoint?
- Technology Stack
- Licensing
- Benefits
- Q: Office 365 and SharePoint Online how many offerings and plans are actually out there?
- Dedicated versus Standard
- Small businesses
- Midsize businesses and enterprises
- Education
- Kiosk Plans
- Q: What authentication options do I have for SharePoint Online?
- Microsoft Online Services IDs
- Microsoft Windows Live IDs
- ADFS 2.0 and SSO
- Q: What about Windows Azure and SharePoint 2010? How can I take advantage of this offering?
- Service
- Data
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: Security is always a concern. What can I do to secure my SharePoint deployment in the cloud?
- Amazon security
- SharePoint security
- Q: How do I migrate my on-premise deployment to SharePoint Online? What are my options?
- Q: I've been told that SharePoint online has less features than its on-premise counterpart. What is it missing?
- Q: Security is always a concern. What can I do to secure my SharePoint deployment in the cloud?
- Digging deeper
- Amazon Web Services
- Private Clouds
- Office 365
- Migration
- Windows Azure
- Summary
- Q: What options do I actually have for cloud-based SharePoint 2010?
- 5. SharePoint and Important Trends
- Q: How big is SharePoint to Microsoft?
- Q: Which IT trends matter?
- Q: What are the user experience trends?
- Users choose their interface and the sources for those interfaces
- Users choose between desktop, web, mobile, and other forms of technology-driven information consumption
- Mobile, tablet, and other forms of consumption have had mixed experiences
- One browser doesn't rule them all
- Growing screen resolutions and growing accessibility expectations
- Q: What are the IT delivery trends?
- Q: What are the collaboration and communication trends?
- Q: Do social computing technologies really help businesses, and is SharePoint really a social computing platform?
- Q: What are the data and information trends and how is SharePoint meeting this demand?
- What is BI for the masses?
- The Microsoft BI Stack
- Search first, ask questions later
- SharePoint and FAST
- Q: What are the user experience trends?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: What are the security trends?
- SharePoint permission sprawl
- Environment security
- Q: How agile is SharePoint?
- What is agile?
- Q: SharePoint applications: Is it better to buy or build?
- Q: What are the reasons for the rapid growth of more SharePoint applications that you can download and activate?
- Q: What are the security trends?
- Digging deeper
- Q: What are your internal corporate trends?
- Q: What are the consumer trends?
- Q: What are other industry and technology trends?
- Summary
- 6. How to get the .NET Developers on Board Quickly?
- Q: What's so different about SharePoint development compared to .NET development?
- Q: How should we approach SharePoint development?
- Have a source-control strategy
- Create a development environment
- Build a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment
- Build a production environment
- Deployment strategy
- Q: What roadblocks do new SharePoint developers face?
- Complementary SharePoint technology
- Q: How do we avoid mistakes in the early stages?
- Q: Can you provide an example of when a straight .NET development is more appropriate than SharePoint .NET?
- Q: What do I need to know to get started in SharePoint development?
- .NET development
- How SharePoint features function within the platform
- How to deploy customizations
- Q: What technical environment do I need to get started with SharePoint development?
- Q: Do developers ever resist the SharePoint developer route?
- SharePoint development is not considered professional development
- Developers do not want to work within a product
- Most developers do not want to be end user focused
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: How do I know that my developers just do not have the SharePoint knowledge?
- Q: Does a SharePoint developer need better than normal communication skills?
- Digging deeper
- Q: How can I learn SharePoint development as fast as possible?
- Find a user group
- Connect through social media
- Forums
- Q: What SharePoint books do you recommend for learning development?
- Q: How can I learn SharePoint development as fast as possible?
- Summary
- 7. Growing SharePoint Capacity and Meeting Staffing Resource Needs
- Q: What are the minimal SharePoint deployment and technical skill set I can get away with?
- Q: What would be the typical SharePoint skill sets needed for different company sizes?
- Q: How easy is it to train in-house technical staff on SharePoint?
- Q: What kind of training resources are available?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: Should I listen to recruiters on job descriptions?
- SharePoint Developer:
- Preferred requirements:
- Q: What are the hidden costs of SharePoint?
- Q: Is there a good approach when using SharePoint for a "charge back" model to the business?
- Q: Is it worth purchasing a Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement?
- Q: Should I listen to recruiters on job descriptions?
- Digging deeper
- Q: How do I start to grow capacity?
- Q: What if I can't get budget to grow capacity?
- Q: How do I define if SharePoint has been a success after one year?
- Summary
- 8. Managing your First SharePoint Project
- Q: What factors should you take into consideration?
- Team skill and experience
- Size and scope of the project
- Your customer
- Configuration versus customization
- Q: Why is a SharePoint first project different to other technologies' first project?
- Case Study: The insurance firm
- End-user community
- Anti-patterns
- Q: How do we decide upon our first project's scope?
- Principles of good business scope
- Technical scope
- Sirens of Greek mythology
- Technical skill set
- Q: How do you plan for and design your first SharePoint project solution?
- Planning
- Designing
- Q: What's the best way to execute?
- Work iteratively
- Share, share, share
- Q: Should you implement in phases?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: How do you organize your SharePoint team?
- Q: How do you leverage success?
- Digging deeper
- Q: What problems should you anticipate with your first project?
- Q: Who should be the first business unit for a SharePoint deployment?
- Q. How easy is it to change from configuration to customization in a project?
- Q: What problems should you anticipate with your first project?
- Summary
- Q: What factors should you take into consideration?
- 9. Now What?
- Q: How do I apply the concepts from this book to produce results?
- Q: I have heard SharePoint projects often fail. How can this be avoided?
- Q: How do I choose a company to partner with?
- Q: Is it easy to offshore SharePoint development?
- Q: How do I estimate a SharePoint development project?
- Q: How easy is it for Java development teams to learn .NET SharePoint development?
- Funny you should say that...
- Q: How do I write an RFP for a technology that I'm not familiar with?
- You get what you ask for
- People are fooled by price
- Time is money
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Q: How do I write an RFP for a technology that I'm not familiar with?
- Digging deeper
- Q: Can a SharePoint deployment really help my career?
- Formulation
- Concentration
- Momentum
- Stability
- Breakthrough
- Mastery
- Other operating states
- Emergency
- Danger
- Q: Can a SharePoint deployment really help my career?
- Summary
- Index