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I'm happy to announce the release of the SharePoint Cross Site Collection Configurator ! This functional sample source and solution deployment is designed to be simple to configure and easy to deploy, and is available now on Codeplex. Not only provides consistency and ease of deployment for IT and business...

If you're in the Puget Sound area and confused or looking for a drill down into SharePoint Deployment around Governance, I have the thing for you. Bill Baer (IT Technologist), Jim Adams (IT Deployment Sr. Project Manager) and Myself are going to have a meeting of the minds on SharePoint Governance. We...

With my focus on Governance I thought about settings and configuration that really should be changed from default. I've often had people ask... What should I configure, what is the default? The expectation is that you do need to configure it. I've had some good conversations with Bill English and some...

I chatted with the Richard and Greg about some of the challenges and solutions related to "governance" or getting in control of your SharePoint environment. "Joel Oleson talks to Richard and Greg about the IT management of Sharepoint. Sharepoint has a knack for showing up everywhere in an organization...

I've been looking at SharePoint in building blocks and pieces lately. The WSS manageability controls paper lays out what you can configure at the web app layer vs. a site collection for example. One previous blog post I recommend reading with this one is SharePoint as an IT service offering . Whether...

Was talking to a IT TDM (Technical Decision Maker) today who was looking for a way he could "manage" SharePoint (either WSS or MOSS) from a standards perspective. His example was, today he can choose specific hardware and specific settings for his exchange or AD servers. It's an entire configuration...

Dustin Miller is my hero. About 3 months ago I was with Dustin Miller, Nikola Young, and Heather Solomon at SharePoint Connections in Orlando and we're enjoying ourselves at Disney MGM studios at the Fantasmic Mickey Mouse Show. The crowd was huge and we were on one end of a massive group waiting...

I just uploaded the code for the Microsoft IT Team Site Life Cycle Management tool . Bill Baer worked overtime to get me the code on this one. Thanks Bill! If you're concerned about sites being unused, taking up disk space and interfering with search results, then this is the management tool for you...

"How long does a typical deployment take?" This is one of the questions I got at the SharePoint Conference last week in Sydney. How would you answer? One guy I mentioned this question to quipped... how long you got? If you already have your hardware, and Windows Server, SQL, DNS, IP addresses arranged...

Before you dismiss this as a dev topic. Let me tell you why you should care about this as an upgrade topic and a manageability and governance topic. Your policies around customization may have the biggest impact to how difficult it is to upgrade, maybe even more so than how much content you have. It...

Governance is so key to deployment. I still hear of people that "throw a deployment over the fence" to an untrained, unexperienced IT guy or gal to "deploy" it for them. A few days later, WSS 3.0 is installed on a server or two and a web app provisioned with a site collection likely with a Intranet portal...

I was in a meeting the other day showing off master pages on a "team" site on our MOSS farm and discovered a few things... The steps below should work with any of the master pages and themes. Feel free to substitute. The steps below are great for IWs or IT Pro's or whoever is trying to change the look...

Starting from auditing , expiration, ( information management policies ) content types , to the pivot reports in Excel I'm pretty jazzed about the compliance features in SharePoint Server. The policies such as auditing are configurable at 2 levels, the site collection and at the list level. The best...

Who owns information architecture in a SharePoint deployment? Is it IT? Is it the business? Well, who owns the Intranet. HR? Marketing? Corporate Communications? Back up... What CXO should care about the Intranet? All of them should, but who owns it in your corporation? Who owns the platform and...

Having been involved in a number of deployments, there are some key things to consider. Here are some of my key deployment considerations to governance & management. Quota - to encourage storage management, if not manage your disk space and search relevancy Usage Policies - what is...

Over the next couple of months, I'm working on Governance and Manageability. It's been consuming my life for the past couple of months as well. It's a big deal. It's sometimes tough to get your arms around. As far as this topic goes, I'm also working on demos for launch on this topic as well as compliance...