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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and

William Nagle, Michael Hinckley, Paul Galvin, Richard Harbridge, Pavlo Andrushkiw, Peter Ward

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
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- Preface
  - Why this book
  - Going off the rails
  - How this book will save you money, and, just possibly, your career
    - Example: The .NET developer
  - How to use this book
  - What this book covers
    - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Defining a SharePoint IT Strategy
  - Q: Can you define what a strategy is?
  - Q: What is an IT strategy?
  - Q: How do you create a SharePoint IT strategy?
    - Day 1: Diagnostics
      - Intro to workshop discussion
      - Company background discussion
      - The Focus on IT environment discussion
      - Current IT core applications discussion
      - Future IT core applications discussion
      - Review discussion
    - Day 2: The treatment plan
      - Initial findings and review discussion
      - The Gap analysis
      - Priorities, actions, and agreement
      - Review discussion
    - Day 3: A successful SharePoint implementation plan
      - Next steps discussion
      - Summary and close out
  - Q: What is the intended outcome of the workshop?
  - Q: Who needs to be involved with the process?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: Do I need to get the CEO involved?
    - Q: Why is a SharePoint strategy different than other IT products?
    - Q: What are the pitfalls of a SharePoint strategy?
    - Q: Why do we really need an IT strategy?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: Any final words of advice on this?
  - Summary
- 2. Just Enough Governance
  - Q. What is governance?
  - Q. Why do we need it?
  - Q: So where do I start with governance?
  - Q: Who should be involved with SharePoint governance?
    - Case study: Include everyone
  - Q: Is it worth hiring a consulting firm to create your companys governance documentation?
  - Q: Why does it seem that SharePoint requires more governance than other technologies?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: How do you define "just enough governance"?
    - Q: How do I strike this so-called "balance"?
    - Q: Well, we have got this far without governance with SharePoint, so why bother?
    - Q: Our existing governance plan hasn't improved deployments or reduced frustrations; any suggestions?
    - Q: Won't governance slow down the speed of innovation?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: Where can I find further information on a governance approach with SharePoint?
  - Summary
- 3. Deployment Roadmap
  - Q: Which edition of SharePoint is right for me?
    - SharePoint Foundation
    - SharePoint Server 2010 Standard
    - SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
      - FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint 2010
      - SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard
      - SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise
      - Microsoft Office 365
      - FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Sites
  - Q: Where should I deploy SharePoint? What choices do I really have?
    - On-premise
    - Hosted
    - Cloud
    - Hybrid
    - So what do I choose?
  - Q: What about licensing? What are my options and how much will it cost?
    - What edition of SharePoint does my company need?
    - Who are my end users?
    - How many servers will run SharePoint?
    - How many people or devices will access SharePoint?
    - Is my company licensed for the Microsoft products that are needed to run SharePoint?
    - Enterprise Agreement
  - Q: SharePoint 2010 Development, Quality Assurance, Production how many farms do I actually need?
  - Q: What do I need to know about storage requirements and their impact on my deployment strategy?
    - Estimating content database storage
    - Data scale
  - Q: Intranet, extranet which SharePoint topology is right for me?
    - Intranets
    - Extranets
    - Public-facing Internet sites
  - Q: What about authentication for end users; what options are available to me?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: Is there any way for me to migrate my existing licenses, instead of having to obtain new ones?
    - Q: What do I need to know about web browsers, tablets, and mobile phones?
      - Web browsers
      - Mobile phones
      - Tablets
    - Q: Why are companies resistant to My Sites; can this attitude ever change?
    - Q: I've heard that Office 2010 is the only version that integrates with SharePoint 2010. Is this true, and what are some other MS products that integrate with SharePoint 2010?
      - Disaster recovery
      - Antivirus
      - Security
      - Monitoring and management
      - Project management
      - Business intelligence
      - Client applications
  - Digging deeper
    - SharePoint editions
    - SharePoint licensing
    - Capacity planning
    - Extranet topologies
    - Public-facing SharePoint sites
    - Authentication mechanisms
  - Summary
- 4. SharePoint in the Clouds
  - Q: What options do I actually have for cloud-based SharePoint 2010?
    - Public cloud
    - Private cloud
    - Community cloud
    - Hybrid cloud
  - Q: How can I use Amazon Web Services for SharePoint 2010?
    - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
    - Amazon Elastic Block Store
    - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
    - Elastic Load Balancing
  - Q: This doesn't sound like a turn-key solution. Where does Amazon's responsibility end and where does mine begin?
    - Amazon infrastructure
    - Windows infrastructure
    - SharePoint infrastructure
  - Q: Can I create a Microsoft private cloud solution for SharePoint?
    - Technology Stack
    - Licensing
    - Benefits
  - Q: Office 365 and SharePoint Online how many offerings and plans are actually out there?
    - Dedicated versus Standard
    - Small businesses
    - Midsize businesses and enterprises
    - Education
    - Kiosk Plans
  - Q: What authentication options do I have for SharePoint Online?
    - Microsoft Online Services IDs
    - Microsoft Windows Live IDs
    - ADFS 2.0 and SSO
  - Q: What about Windows Azure and SharePoint 2010? How can I take advantage of this offering?
    - Service
    - Data
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: Security is always a concern. What can I do to secure my SharePoint deployment in the cloud?
      - Amazon security
      - SharePoint security
    - Q: How do I migrate my on-premise deployment to SharePoint Online? What are my options?
    - Q: I've been told that SharePoint online has less features than its on-premise counterpart. What is it missing?
  - Digging deeper
    - Amazon Web Services
    - Private Clouds
    - Office 365
      - Migration
    - Windows Azure
  - Summary
- 5. SharePoint and Important Trends
  - Q: How big is SharePoint to Microsoft?
  - Q: Which IT trends matter?
    - Q: What are the user experience trends?
      - Users choose their interface and the sources for those interfaces
      - Users choose between desktop, web, mobile, and other forms of technology-driven information consumption
      - Mobile, tablet, and other forms of consumption have had mixed experiences
      - One browser doesn't rule them all
      - Growing screen resolutions and growing accessibility expectations
    - Q: What are the IT delivery trends?
    - Q: What are the collaboration and communication trends?
      - Q: Do social computing technologies really help businesses, and is SharePoint really a social computing platform?
    - Q: What are the data and information trends and how is SharePoint meeting this demand?
      - What is BI for the masses?
      - The Microsoft BI Stack
      - Search first, ask questions later
      - SharePoint and FAST
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: What are the security trends?
      - SharePoint permission sprawl
      - Environment security
    - Q: How agile is SharePoint?
      - What is agile?
    - Q: SharePoint applications: Is it better to buy or build?
      - Q: What are the reasons for the rapid growth of more SharePoint applications that you can download and activate?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: What are your internal corporate trends?
    - Q: What are the consumer trends?
    - Q: What are other industry and technology trends?
  - Summary
- 6. How to get the .NET Developers on Board Quickly?
  - Q: What's so different about SharePoint development compared to .NET development?
  - Q: How should we approach SharePoint development?
    - Have a source-control strategy
    - Create a development environment
    - Build a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment
    - Build a production environment
    - Deployment strategy
  - Q: What roadblocks do new SharePoint developers face?
    - Complementary SharePoint technology
    - Q: How do we avoid mistakes in the early stages?
    - Q: Can you provide an example of when a straight .NET development is more appropriate than SharePoint .NET?
  - Q: What do I need to know to get started in SharePoint development?
    - .NET development
    - How SharePoint features function within the platform
    - How to deploy customizations
    - Q: What technical environment do I need to get started with SharePoint development?
  - Q: Do developers ever resist the SharePoint developer route?
    - SharePoint development is not considered professional development
    - Developers do not want to work within a product
    - Most developers do not want to be end user focused
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: How do I know that my developers just do not have the SharePoint knowledge?
    - Q: Does a SharePoint developer need better than normal communication skills?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: How can I learn SharePoint development as fast as possible?
      - Find a user group
      - Connect through social media
      - Forums
    - Q: What SharePoint books do you recommend for learning development?
  - Summary
- 7. Growing SharePoint Capacity and Meeting Staffing Resource Needs
  - Q: What are the minimal SharePoint deployment and technical skill set I can get away with?
  - Q: What would be the typical SharePoint skill sets needed for different company sizes?
  - Q: How easy is it to train in-house technical staff on SharePoint?
  - Q: What kind of training resources are available?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: Should I listen to recruiters on job descriptions?
      - SharePoint Developer:
      - Preferred requirements:
    - Q: What are the hidden costs of SharePoint?
    - Q: Is there a good approach when using SharePoint for a "charge back" model to the business?
    - Q: Is it worth purchasing a Microsoft Enterprise License Agreement?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: How do I start to grow capacity?
    - Q: What if I can't get budget to grow capacity?
    - Q: How do I define if SharePoint has been a success after one year?
  - Summary
- 8. Managing your First SharePoint Project
  - Q: What factors should you take into consideration?
    - Team skill and experience
    - Size and scope of the project
    - Your customer
    - Configuration versus customization
  - Q: Why is a SharePoint first project different to other technologies' first project?
    - Case Study: The insurance firm
    - End-user community
    - Anti-patterns
  - Q: How do we decide upon our first project's scope?
    - Principles of good business scope
    - Technical scope
    - Sirens of Greek mythology
    - Technical skill set
  - Q: How do you plan for and design your first SharePoint project solution?
    - Planning
    - Designing
  - Q: What's the best way to execute?
    - Work iteratively
    - Share, share, share
  - Q: Should you implement in phases?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: How do you organize your SharePoint team?
    - Q: How do you leverage success?
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: What problems should you anticipate with your first project?
      - Q: Who should be the first business unit for a SharePoint deployment?
      - Q. How easy is it to change from configuration to customization in a project?
  - Summary
- 9. Now What?
  - Q: How do I apply the concepts from this book to produce results?
  - Q: I have heard SharePoint projects often fail. How can this be avoided?
  - Q: How do I choose a company to partner with?
  - Q: Is it easy to offshore SharePoint development?
  - Q: How do I estimate a SharePoint development project?
  - Q: How easy is it for Java development teams to learn .NET SharePoint development?
  - Funny you should say that...
    - Q: How do I write an RFP for a technology that I'm not familiar with?
      - You get what you ask for
      - People are fooled by price
      - Time is money
      - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  - Digging deeper
    - Q: Can a SharePoint deployment really help my career?
      - Formulation
      - Concentration
      - Momentum
      - Stability
      - Breakthrough
      - Mastery
      - Other operating states
        
        Emergency
        
        Danger
  - Summary
- Index

Titel: Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and
Autor: William Nagle, Michael Hinckley, Paul Galvin, Richard Harbridge, Pavlo Andrushkiw, Peter Ward
Originaler Titel: Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook. 100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments with this book and ebook
ISBN: 9781849686112, 9781849686112
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2012-05-24
Format: E-book
Artikelkennung: e_3cly
Verleger: Packt Publishing

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