PRESENTATION BY SCOTT MCGEARY SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATOR FOR DSHS – CHILDREN’S ADMINISTRATION T-5 - SharePoint - Streamline Productivity within your Agency
Overview of SharePoint in our Organization Primarily used as an active workspace and archive for projects and work groups Intranet only In use for over 3 years Over 30 sites and sub-sites Over 3000 users Over 7.1 million hits total Over 2 GB bandwidth used daily Over 80 GB of data and files No downtime issues during critical business hours
Site Hierarchy
Children’s Administration Home
FamLink Portal – Project Site
FamLink Portal Sub Site
Popular Features Lists Task Management Calendars Issue Tracking Project Assignments Document Libraries Project archives Document version preservation Check-in/Check-out capabilities Workflow
Example of List
Example of Document Library
Less Practical Features Discussions Most discussions of this sort are dealt with in Not many people found value in this feature in our office since most people on the main project team were centrally located Wiki’s Contributions or changes were rarely submitted to Wiki pages Most Wiki pages were only changed by the original creator
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Example of Wiki
Overall SharePoint Experience Pros Allows one central location for project artifacts, lists, and management Allows groups to collaborate electronically in a secure environment Reliability and uptime Ease of environment management Users typically learn and adapt to interfaces and functionality very quickly Most business needs and processes can be addressed in some way with SharePoint Integration with Microsoft Office very smooth
Overall SharePoint Experience Cons Users sometimes want existing functionality to work differently Misc. bugs that have since been corrected with updates
Contact Info Scott McGeary