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SharePoint Governance And the role of the Site Owner
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Shaun Nichols Lead Solutions Engineer – Metalogix Migrations Governance Solutions Content Management
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Lessons from the past How many of you had a SharePoint 2007 Environment? Single Site Collection Permissions Sprawl Orphan Accounts Stale Content Customizations First experience with SharePoint for most people How many of you had a SharePoint 2007 Environment? Single Site Collection Permissions Sprawl Orphan Accounts Stale Content Customizations First experience with SharePoint for most people
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This is the reason for Governance!
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Pillars of the governance Plan Business Governance IT/Operational Governance Information Management Business Governance IT/Operational Governance Information Management
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Business Governance Build your team Have a vision Identify main areas for success Who will be responsible for what? Build your team Have a vision Identify main areas for success Who will be responsible for what?
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The Team An evangelist or leader Business leaders IT operations Developers Owners/End Users
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Vision Why are we using SharePoint? Define the business drivers The non-technical definition of SharePoint for our business
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Which features do we need most Translate the business need Focus on the key areas Try to avoid needless complexity
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Ask the tough questions The big questions Discover processes that can be incorporated – you might be surprised Dig into content, operations, roles, social The big questions Discover processes that can be incorporated – you might be surprised Dig into content, operations, roles, social
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Information Architecture Site Structure Taxonomy Content on the pages Define content in SharePoint Site Structure Taxonomy Content on the pages Define content in SharePoint
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Site Structure Gotta talk to those users again Departmental Driven Design – Maybe not Functional sites like
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Can I do this all in one site collection? The Good Simple navigation settings Master page gallery Lookups The Bad Growth of content Scalability for the future Issues with unique security
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Side Note: Managed Navigation Uses managed metadata in navigation Consistency throughout all sites Can give the appearance of seamlessness with multiple site collections
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Page Content Uniformity across the sites Important content at the top A wireframe when starting can be a big help SharePoint Designer
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Metadata
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Taxonomy Content Types Discover what content will be in SharePoint Could this be a search scope? Careful not allow sprawl here as well Columns Users only have so much patience Further define content beyond the properties of the document
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Managed Metadata A central and reusable taxonomy Sharing content types across site collections Can be limited to certain locations too Folksonomy
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IT/Operational Governance Continuity and data protection Policies Security Classification of content Continuity and data protection Policies Security Classification of content
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Business Continuity Gotta keep the lights on! Monitor Performance Are there application SLAs in place already? Gotta keep the lights on! Monitor Performance Are there application SLAs in place already?
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Policies Expiration of old content Storage quotas Looking at activity reports to find stale content Expiration of old content Storage quotas Looking at activity reports to find stale content
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Customizations What if you had to migrate by the end of the year? SharePoint Designer? Third party solutions? What if you had to migrate by the end of the year? SharePoint Designer? Third party solutions?
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Side Note – App Model Evolution of sandboxed solutions Change in development tools used Where will we allow apps? Who can deploy them? Will we allow apps from the store?
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Security
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Information architecture Plays a role in security Classification of the sites Reduction in governance from IT as content becomes more collaborative Impact on inheritance
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Key areas of concern Inheritance Custom Permission Levels Custom Groups Direct Access AD Groups vs SharePoint Groups Inheritance Custom Permission Levels Custom Groups Direct Access AD Groups vs SharePoint Groups
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Are you hosting compliant content? HIPAA, PII, Auditing Features within SharePoint Records Management Information Rights Management Approval of the content HIPAA, PII, Auditing Features within SharePoint Records Management Information Rights Management Approval of the content
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What is your plan? Are there unique security requirements here? Who is the audience for this? Does out-of-the-box give us what we need? Enable the end users Are there unique security requirements here? Who is the audience for this? Does out-of-the-box give us what we need? Enable the end users
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Side Note – O365 External Users Share Requests You can disable external sharing!
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Who does what? IT Provide Training and Resources Active Directory Groups Templates Enforce the guidelines in governance documentation Site Owners Access requests Proper provisioning Who can know the content better than them?
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Search Keep important content in SharePoint Organize hierarchies using plain language Promote metadata usage Authoritative Pages Keep important content in SharePoint Organize hierarchies using plain language Promote metadata usage Authoritative Pages
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It all comes together in the end Well defined and organized site structure Effective use of content types and metadata Back to understanding the content that will be in SharePoint Will there be content outside of SharePoint that we will still have to see? Well defined and organized site structure Effective use of content types and metadata Back to understanding the content that will be in SharePoint Will there be content outside of SharePoint that we will still have to see?
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So, I left some stuff out… Workflows BDC OWA Search… kinda Workflows BDC OWA Search… kinda
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