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Although you may not find many references to dev, test, staging, environments, these are critical to large deployments. Even in the commodity type space where you are simply hosting the out of the box SharePoint code, it still very important if not critical to have a "test" environment where you can...

I could elaborate on this image forever. I've used this PPT smart art as an illustration in my decks recently. The SharePoint Dummies book on the cover has a similar example. I find it helpful to break this down to the level you're working at, but seeing it all at once can be helpful. I use it to show...

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...

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...

Security Improvements in SharePoint Server 2007 Joel Oleson Secure by Default Secure by default, with flexible information management policies for compliant solutions. That’s a good description of what administrators will find when server administrators assume they have access to all the...

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...

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...