15. Chief Architect & CEO

19. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Topology Logical architecture Platform dependencies UX metaphors & user training Developer tools

20. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same basic topology: WFE APP SQL But: Office Web App Servers Workflow Manager Servers And…No separate FAST servers

21. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same basic topology:

22. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same logical architecture Farm Web Application Site Collection Site (Subweb) List/Library Item

24. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same platform dependencies Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CPU + Memory + I/O Except: Windows 2012/SQL 2012 Memory requirements go UP WFE: 8GB  12GB [24-32GB!]

25. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same UX metaphors Site Pages Web Parts Ribbon Folders/Metadata Except: Everything’s an App Additional training required

26. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Same developer tools Visual Studio SharePoint Designer Except: SharePoint Designer Design View Napa Tool for Office 365

27. Making the Most of Today’s Investment Net Result? Able to leverage much of existing investment

29. SharePoint 2013: What’s New? Social Mobile Search Business Solutions

31. Social How does it impact me? More usage of personal sites Retention and compliance considerations New privacy settings Governance: what should users do?

33. Mobile How does it impact me? BYOD gaining popularity Internal/external connectivity Users expecting it to work

35. Search How does it impact me? Topology Content Search Web Part Central to user experience Users expect it to be perfect

36. SQL Access Services WFE

37. Business Solutions How does it impact me? Topology: Access Services, SQL Azure, etc. Database growth and management Empowerment of power users

38. What’s New in SharePoint 2013? Net Result? Identify where SharePoint 2013 can make the best impact to your business.

41. 1. Organize Content Metadata vs. Folders Default vs. Requested Values Contributor vs. Consumer Empowerment vs. Governance

44. SharePoint Governance: Simply the “Rules of the Road”

47. 1. Organize Content Net result: Use governance to manage risk…will start to lead to better organization of content And better search results

48. 2. Plan for Search Reconcile Content Sources Organize Content in Hierarchies Use Natural Language Encourage rich and consistent metadata Review Search Reports Regularly

50. 3. Plan for Social Social features rely heavily on profiles Reliable profile information is harder than you think Invest in planning and governance in this area

51. 3. Plan for Social: 7 Steps 1.Identify stakeholders 2.Identify how the profile information will be used 3.Identify directory services and business systems 4.Determine which properties to include 5.Determine property details 6.Determine personalization settings policies 7.Plan for capacity

52. 3. Plan for Social Remember, My Sites is three key features: 1.Profiles 2.Personal Sites 3.Social (Newsfeeds, etc.) So…who can do what? [plan permissions]

53. My Site Permissions* MY SITE Option combo Personal site creation Edit profile Newsfeed Document library Document following People following Site following Social Tags and Note Board 1, 2, 3Yes 1,2Yes No 1YesNoYes NoYes 1,3YesNoYes NoYes 2NoYesNo YesNo 2, 3NoYesNo YesNoYes 3No Yes 1. Create Personal Site Enables users to create a personal site to store their documents, newsfeed, and followed content. 2. Follow People and Edit Profile Enables users to follow people from their My Site and to edit their personal profile. 3. Use Tags and Notes Enables users to use SharePoint 2010 tags and notes

55. 4. Plan for Apps Define Your App Strategy Plan for Farm and Sandbox Solutions Design for the Cloud moving forward

56. 4. Plan for Apps

57. 5. Clean Up Top 10 List: Preparing Your Environment for SharePoint 2013

58. Moving to SharePoint 2013

59. SharePoint 2013 Upgrades

61. 5. Clean Up Top 10 List: Preparing Your Environment for SharePoint 2013

62. Clean Up 10. Delete unused or underused site collections and subwebs Why? Reduce risk and improve performance

63. Clean Up 9. Check large lists (lists with lots of data) Why? Performance and User Experience

64. Clean Up 8. Delete excess columns from wide lists (lists with too many columns) or remove wide lists Why? Wide lists can cause an upgrade to fail

65. Clean Up 7. Consider moving site collections into separate databases Why? SP2010: 15,000 site collections SP2013: 5,000 site collections

66. Clean Up 6. Remove extraneous document versions Why? Large numbers of versions can slow down an upgrade significantly

67. Clean Up 5. Remove unused templates, features, and Web Parts Why? Platform hygiene

68. Clean Up 4. Remove PowerPoint Broadcast sites Why? Not available in 2013 (Office Web Apps installed separately)

69. Clean Up 3. Finish Visual Upgrades in SharePoint 2010 Why? All sites will move to 2010 experience automatically

70. Clean Up 2. Check databases for duplicate or orphaned site collections Why? Platform hygiene

71. Clean Up 1.Clean up Health Analyzer Issues Why? Platform hygiene

72. Clean Up 0. Have a beer (with your users) Why? Beer is good. And you’ll learn something valuable from user community

77. Bob’s Journey: 1. He deployed SharePoint 2007  2010 2. Thinking about 2013 3. Wants to prepare better than he did for 2007  2010 He switched on social, but didn’t get quality participation He switched on search, but didn’t get good results Site content could be organized better Little to no site governance No ongoing 'love' 4. Wanted to understand his potential journey (before he embarks)

79. Initial Deployment Deploy collaboration sites that connect teams, improve access to information and increase productivity

80. Controlled Empowerment Establish governance and training that provides a well- organized model for content management and delivery

81. Broad Adoption Deliver advanced workloads that broaden adoption, drive compliance and reduce the cost of maintain multiple systems

82. Business Critical Solutions Build tailored business solutions that provide insights, improve decisions and increase organizational agility

83. Where are you in your SharePoint journey? Stop by Jornata booth 460 to take our survey…and enter for a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD!

84. Good profiles Accurate profile info AD hygine Photos Business need Good titles Good metadata Clean content corpus Quality pruning

85. Quality Content Communication Incentives Great Experience Clear Business need Strategy Governance Development Support Power Users

86. Ongoing technical monitoring Ongoing content monitoring Great User Support Great Experience Clear Business need

92. Scott Jamison Email: scott.jamison@jornata.comscott.jamison@jornata.com Blog: www.scottjamison.comwww.scottjamison.com Twitter: @sjam

93. MySPC