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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

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