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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:06 PM

Standardization and Consistency is the key - SharePoint Configurator Released to Codeplex

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
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:49 PM

Free Pac West Sales Event: Meeting of the Minds Governance and SharePoint 2007

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
Posted by joelo | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:56 AM

Default installation configuration and what you need to know.

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
Posted by joelo | 11 Comments
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:37 PM

Hey I'm on RunAsRadio for SharePoint Governance

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
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 7:48 AM

Configuration Options for SharePoint (Hosting Options)

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
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:15 AM

SharePoint as an IT Service Offering

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
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Friday, June 08, 2007 2:20 PM

Hero and Hiro - Day 2-4 at TechED Orlando

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
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Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:51 AM

MSIT Site Life Cycle Managment tool beta 1 release and TechEd Goodies

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
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:00 AM

How Long Does a Typical Deployment Take?

"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,
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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:37 AM

To Unghost or To Not Unghost, That Is the Question!

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
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Attachment(s): revert to site definition.GIF
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:29 AM

SharePoint Governance through Database Design Considerations

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
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:39 AM

Master Page and Themes on WSS sites in MOSS

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
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Monday, March 19, 2007 10:47 PM

Solutions, Information Policies, Compliance and Auditing

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
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Friday, March 16, 2007 3:00 AM

SharePoint Information Architecture and the Information Architect

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
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:06 PM

Key Governance Considerations in a SharePoint Deployment

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
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Attachment(s): Sample SharePoint Governance Plan.doc
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