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

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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

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