From a planning perspective, what are the very basic areas that one needs to think of when going down the route of creating a SharePoint solution, whether its a site, or farm, or even a workflow solution. I have attempted to answer this by building a presentation key covering planning,...
Documenting SharePoi...
There’s plenty of technical articles discussing what tool to use, what commands to use, what products to use and more in the face of migrating one or more SharePoint environments from 2007 to 2010. However, this article describes the process that a SharePoint Architect would need to define...
Value Engineering in...
Welcome to the third and final part of my Value Management article concerning how to define and apply a model for solution architecture in SharePoint. If you have just jumped into this article, without reading the first two I urge you to go back and read the first two articles – here...
Value Management in ...
In this second of a three part blog I will describe Value Management in SharePoint and how it can be applied when creating or implementing a new SharePoint solution. Note that in fact this can also be applied to existing SharePoint environments where there is a requirement to extend or enhance...
Value Management in ...
This is the first of a three part article. You may have heard statements like: ‘I need a good return on my investment of SharePoint’ ‘I am paying a lot of money for SharePoint and people, what is it there to do?’ ‘I need to know what to do and what not to do...
Ten Steps to a successful implementation of ShareP...
People have been requesting me do a shortened article to cover SharePoint Implementation from a higher level; a kind of whats my the key steps required to deliver SharePoint to a client. Please note there’s a whole bunch of webcasts coming soon to go into some more detail on each of the steps, so watch this space. If you need further information go ahead and give me a shout! Happy Reading! One final point – if the following does not display correctly then please use this link: http://www.geoffevelyn.com/spssite/mmap/spimpl/index.html ...
Service Delivery – Working in harmony with externa...
Time for a service delivery article, looking at working with external SharePoint agencies in a SharePoint environment in BAU… If you are operating and managing SharePoint environments for your clients, you may find that there is a business requirement for enhancements or modifications to something to take place which would alter your controlled SharePoint environment. This business requirement may be one where there is a call for the intended work to be carried out by utilising services from an external ‘SharePoint’ on a sub-contracted basis. Now, before continuing, and for arguments sake, this article does not consider how the...
What SharePoint Out-...
As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from ‘XYZ Consultants Are Us...
SharePoint Implement...
Had a chat with a friend in the pub talking technical over a whiskey and rum, and got into a reminiscent of the good ole days of writing databases in DOS (Nantucket Clipper and dBase – remember that?! Wow). I was asked about SharePoint and the coding for that and then someone piped up...
Project Plan
SharePoint Project Planning Template in Microsoft Project format
Implementation Steps...
I use this presentation for stakeholders in communicating to them the key reasons for Sharepoint implementation and the stages of implementation following project methodologies. Whilst it focuses on Document Management in SharePoint it is purposefully made generic to cover the general process...
The swopping of SharePoint Heads – Capacity ...
Hi there, time for another blog from the evangelical Geoff marching into the land of SharePoint Capacity Planning. Start with an example if I may. Met up with a client who needed a SharePoint environment, and needs someone to help with a specification. Following a number of briefs, seemingly the clients’ requirement is a requirement for a central place so that users could manage online content, using tools such as Visio, Word, Excel. So, spent some evenings designing the user specification, then worked with the client to produce a design and technical specification. This is the fun part, having to move your mind-set from the...
Planning Worksheets
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...
SharePoint – T...
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...
Build Template
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...
Content Control
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...
Content Deployment &...
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...
Email Distribution G...
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...
Site Management R...
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...