Watch Your SharePoint Practices
October 24, 2011
We’ve been focusing on SharePoint’s negative aspects lately and steps you can take to correct them. We continue our discussion with a PowerPoint presentation from SharePoint Dan on “SUGDC Deck-SharePoint Worst Practices.”
Dan Usher is a SharePoint infrastructure engineer and architect, in less words a SharePoint expert. He outlines a typical scenario: updates, changes in IP addresses, new software patches, and different port settings. How do you handle this? Rule #1 is to form a plan (duh!) outlining implementation, change management, development guidelines, etc. The reason this happened was because governance was not established. The usual advice is outlined, but there is something new. Usher discusses the importance of monitoring a system and performing regular maintenance. We realize it’s a no brainer, but many businesses fail to include this in their planning.
The presentation ends in basic points we’ve become familiar with these points:
Figure out what the system will be doing before deployment…cast a vision and stick to it!
Ensure process and governance are developed and used not only for developers and designers, bit for the end user.
Keep the user base informed, don’t expect them to go to the web part gallery on a regular basis-explain what’s new!
It’s the usual stuff repackaged, but it’s cleverer and less long-winded.
Our view is that you can sidestep some of the pitfalls associated with SharePoint by embracing certified third party solutions. Search is a great example. You can make SharePoint more useful using SurfRay’s Ontolica technology. Check out the company at www.surfray.com.
Whitney Grace, October 24, 2011
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