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Implementation Articles
Microsoft Ignite 2019 Guide to Office 365 ProPlus Deployment
If you’re an Office IT Admin, get ready to learn the latest and greatest about Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus...
Value Engineering in SharePoint – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part of my Value Management article concerning how to define and apply a model for solution architecture in SharePoint. If you have just jumped into this article, without reading the first two I urge you to go back and read the first two...
Value Management in SharePoint – Part 2 of 3
In this second of a three part blog I will describe Value Management in SharePoint and how it can be applied when creating or implementing a new SharePoint solution. Note that in fact this can also be applied to existing SharePoint environments where there is a...
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SharePoint Governance
SharePoint governance planning adds legitimacy to a SharePoint implementation. Defined governance rules, roles, and responsibilities in the Plan phase ensure the business is provided with the resources to make the SharePoint implementation a success. A SharePoint governance plan describes the business-critical nature of the SharePoint implementation and provides the evidence for requesting the necessary people and money investments.
SharePoint 2010 Service Applications
This is a list of all the SharePoint 2010 Service applications, and is presented as one of the appendices to my book Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. For each of the services I describe the functionality and the purpose of the Service. I've also...
Project Planning
When implementing SharePoint in an organization, its not just about dropping SharePoint on a server and saying to the client 'There you go!'. This introduction to SharePoint Project Planning gives 10 useful steps to ensuring a successful SharePoint implementation....
What SharePoint Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) really means
As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from 'XYZ...
Do you UAT SharePoint Standard Features?
Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However,...
My pennyworths on Third Party Product Deploy in SharePoint – Where is the Documentation then?
I have a customer who has third party developers enhancing their SharePoint platform; their questions surrounded the control of these developers from the perspective of how their products end up running in SharePoint. We all know that SharePoint is pretty...