So, I’m going straight to the bad practice #2 because of conversations with some peers yesterday here in the UK. We see lots of blogs and articles about SharePoint Governance, and they are all very lengthy and probably applicable to most organizations. But, what I’ve seen is the average SharePoint administrator is the Exchange Admin, firewall admin, and sometimes the accountant! The point is – many folks don’t have time to go through a lengthy governance process. But, we know what kind of trouble they’ll get in without it! So, what’s the answer? I call it ‘Bare Metal Governance”
After we held several, very successful workshops in March, then Microsoft announced that SharePoint Designer was going to be a free download. In my work environment, users having access to download SharePoint Designer for free is a potential administrative nightmare. No issues so far
Applications, computers, file shares all utilize AD for permissions for starters. AD when it comes to SharePoint it can be looked at in two parts. The user and the security group.
Planning your SharePoint environment is very much the same way, there can be multiple out comes, with lots of twists and turns along the way, and depending on the choices you made earlier, could force the outcome later.
Peter Serzo will be speaking at the Best Practices Conference in Washington, D.C. at the end of August. He sent me a little recorded parable that I thought you might find of interest.
Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) brings a fresh perspective to each of his engagements and the clients he represents. Each session [...]
I’ve many customers that struggle with implementation and support of best practices because of organizational politics, budget constraints, and culture. While most of the SharePoint administrators and developers I work with want to implement best practices, they face impediments and many times just give up. When this happens, one of two outcomes is often the case:
With Mark Miller as the host, Laura Rogers will demonstrate just how flexible and useful the Out-of-the-Box Web Parts are in MOSS. She will take a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access, Business Data Catalog, and Data View Web Parts. She will then look at how to customize some of these web parts using SharePoint Designer while still adhering to the Industry Best Practices. All of this is done without using any code. This session in itself is a best practice, because it is best to learn what SharePoint can do out-of-the-box, before writing any code.
With the increasing number of SharePoint conferences, you might be asking yourself “Why would I attend the Best Practices® Conference?” In this post, I’d like to answer that question.
I was recently involved in facilitating discussions and debate on the topic of governance for the leadership team of a public/private/community sector consortium. It was absolutely light years away from SharePoint governance, yet they struggled with it just as much as we do – and they get paid lots more than us!
Getting started with jQuery in SharePoint is surprisingly easy (to me). (I do have serious questions about a “best practices” approach to deploying these things to production, but that’s for another day). I’ve just started playing with this technology and to that end, I created a sandbox environment to use. If you’re looking to get started with jQuery, you may find this approach useful.
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