The following downloads are worksheets designed to help plan aspects of a SharePoint 2010 implementation, and at the same time ensure that decisions in the design are captured. This relates to two chapters in my book (Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects) covering User...

A SharePoint Implementation combining a detailed Project Plan and Quality Plan allows you to capture key pieces of information; namely, the commitment to spend (i.e. what the budget is); the schedule (when it is needed by) and the scope (what is SharePoint going to solve). If you are about to...

This is a SharePoint Build Template. It is designed so that you can record the content of the SharePoint installation in terms of its software, and refer to the documents that will guide the installation of SharePoint. The Software Build Template is referred from my book, Managing and...

SharePoint Project Risk Management  Definition: Risk Management is the identification and evaluation of risks to an organization – including risks to its existence, profits and reputation -  and the acceptance, elimination, controlling or mitigation of the risks and the effects of the...

This article is concerned with how the management of documents and data in a site related to the implementation of SharePoint 2010, thus allowing the control, storage and management of information related to a SharePoint 2010 implementation project. This document will describe the recommended...

 Here’s a little section from my forthcoming book concerning Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. Large SharePoint implementation and upgrade projects are the nightmare of many corporate boardrooms. Decisions regarding goals for the organization concerning how...

Verify and Validate – two of the things you must do when you apply a deployment of SharePoint, or a feature to SharePoint, or a third party addon to SharePoint. In fact, there’s so many areas that you need to do this in, though people get confused about the actual procedures...

SharePoint subcontracts can be raised when it is considered that it is more effective to place discrete packages of work outside of the organisation. This article is referred to in my book, Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. The article describes, from an academic viewpoint...

SharePoint 2010 as an upgrade and new collaborative technology platform is here; brand new; shining with feature-sets, clean with many new things users can do. Those considering the push of moving their SharePoint 2007 environment(s) over could of course do this since there is a plethora of...

Whilst making the march into SharePoint 2010, lets’ not forget those clients still using SharePoint 2003 and wanting to migrate into 2010. This article attempts to list some key things you need to be aware of in migrating from 2003 to 2010, and lists web parts in 2003 that you need to...

I carried out a presentation the other day on sharepoint topologies and what you need to understand to develop and define those topologies – people asked for the presentation doc to be made available, so here it is! Download:...

A great PDF from Ben Curry at Mindsharp, describes 20 Design Life Cycle concerning Sharepoint and poses questions concerning business, functional, technical, techniques for gathering and much more. Download: 20 Design Decisions for...

Bunch of my friendly architects chatting over a significant number of beers and spirits, telling rather silly jokes got into a heated discussion on SharePoint Content Deployment. Hrm… Sounds like a punchline building up here – Anyway, it all went a bit like the ‘I went...

If you’re a SharePoint Architect, there are a number of areas you want to focus on in your career. Personally, I decided long ago that implementation, structure, automation of the business process in SharePoint is my focus. To do that, I combine my technical knowledge of SharePoint with...

Sharepoint has the ability to take incoming emails via Microsoft Outlook into a document library or calendar. For example, one could setup meeting requests via Outlook and send these into a calendar on SharePoint. Also, an email could be sent directly into a document library from Outlook. The...

Was asked today whether there were guides available that walked someone through building a site structure – a kind of click here, click there guide. So, my thoughts and after discussing the client requirements boils down to this: The question concerning creating SharePoint site...

As a SharePoint Architect, you’ll define a policy concerning the management of sites or at least will have an input to it; and whatever policy or process that comes from that is not called Tech Support – it’s called Business Content (content hierarchy) Support – meaning...

If you are planning to install Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 7, here is an excellent article in MSDN, just follow the steps and you will end up successfully installing SharePoint 2010 beta on windows 7. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx TIP: even if you follow the...

Wow, getting late and on another sharepoint environment. This time, looking at Sharepoint 2010. People have often asked me, hey Geoff what does it take to define a Sharepoint environment? Is there a checklist of areas we need to ensure we have covered? What kind of questions should we be...

Someone said to me today ‘Hey – our Sharepoint Search system Sucks – I reckon Google Search is better, lets put that in now!’ – here’s my reply sorry if it turns into a rant hehe. Implementing google search over sharepoint enterprise federated search just...