New governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet
Hi. I’m Rob Silver, a writer on the IT Pro content team for SharePoint. I’d like to inform you about some content I recently researched and authored about governance with respect to SharePoint Server 2007. Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish in your enterprise to guide, direct, and control how it uses technologies to accomplish business goals. To strike the right balance between the needs of the SharePoint users in your enterprise and the IT professionals who deploy and operate SharePoint Server, we recommend that you form a governance body that includes representatives of all stakeholders in the SharePoint deployment. This body can then create and enforce rules that govern the use of SharePoint.
Here are some topics to help you determine the aspects of your SharePoint deployment to govern and the methods to use:
I’m very interested in your feedback on this new content. Do you find it useful? Is it the right level of detail? Do you agree or disagree with particular recommendations? Is there additional content you'd like to see added? There are three ways you can provide feedback. First, in each topic you will find a "Was this information helpful?" control with a text box for supplying feedback. Second, you can send us mail at "o12ITdx [at] microsoft.com". Third, you can use the "Leave a Comment" interface on this blog to provide feedback, either on this blog entry or on the governance content.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you and to evolving this content in partnership with you.
Thanks,
Rob Silver
Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content team
