About this Course

This class should be taken before you roll out SharePoint, but probably will be taken after you have already done it the wrong way. Governance is a broad topic potentially touching every aspect of the organization. This 2-day instructor-led class will focus on governance of content stored and used within SharePoint. We will cover the What, Who and How of governance with an end goal of getting you a good start on your governance team and plan.

The course covers:

•   All versions of SharePoint (2007 - 2013) on premises and in the Cloud
•   and in general, corporate and organization intellectual property governance

Labs:

•   This class includes four team oriented problem solving labs to explore real world governance problems and to create a governance plan.

Audience Profile

At Course Completion

What you will take away from this class:

•   What is governance
•   What should be governed
•   Who should govern, and how they should be selected
•   How to define core SharePoint services and manage their release
•   A list of critical policies that should be created, and enforced
•   What needs to be audited and how to do audits
•   What needs to be considered in your plan for legal reasons, business reasons and best practices reasons

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

•   A good understanding of the "big picture" of SharePoint
•   Basic training or experience with SharePoint end-user and site owner skills
•   A good understanding of the "how" and "why" of SharePoint in your organization
•   A good understanding of intellectual property policies in your company

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

•   What is SharePoint?
•   What areas of the business are impacted by a SharePoint installation
•   The SharePoint cultural change
•   What is at risk?
•   What is governance?
•   Governance is not just about SharePoint
•   Who is in charge?
•   What you will get with no plan, and no enforcement
•   SharePoint Terminology

Module  2: Governance, the team and the plan

•   Who creates the Plan, who enforces the Plan?
•   The Governance Team
•   Selecting the team
•   Sponsorship and buy-in
•   The Governance Plan
•   Audits?
•   Lifecycle of SharePoint
•   Lifecycle of the plan and the team
•   Resources available

Module 3: Project Management

•   Project Management and Governance
•   ITIL?
•   Resources available

Module 4: SharePoint Service Model

•   SharePoint Roles - the people
•   Deploying and supporting SharePoint in Tiers
•   Four nine's? 24 x 7? Local/International?
•   Content Management
•   Team Collaboration
•   My Sites
•   Social Networking
•   Microsoft Office Integration
•   SharePoint as a development platform
•   Resources available

Module 5: Security

•   What's at risk?
•   The SharePoint security model
•   Security at the server

Module 6: Configuration, Customization and Custom Development

•   The three C's: Configuration, Customization and Custom Development
•   Which should you permit?
•   At what cost?
•   And what can go wrong...
•   Development, Staging and Production - testing and migration
•   Change control
•   SharePoint Designer Policies and Best Practices
•   Development standards and procedures
•   Resources available

Module 7: Taxonomy

•   Taxonomy, a definition
•   Types of taxonomies
•   Who should create and own the corporate taxonomies?
•   Tools to support taxonomies
•   Resources available

Module 8: Planning the Information Architecture

•   Applications, Site Collections or Sites
•   Planned or open (the wild, wild, West!)
•   Resources available

Module 9: Farm Administration

•   Resource planning
•   Scalability
•   Disaster planning and disaster recovery
•   Resources available

Module 10: SharePoint Administration

•   Procedures and tools for new sites
•   Procedures and tools for monitoring SharePoint
•   Backup requirements
•   Resources available

Module 11: Training and Support

•   End user training and support
•   Extended training needed for SharePoint
•   Office and SharePoint integration
•   Resources available

Module 12: Content Management

•   Content life spans
•   Approval processes
•   Content Types and metadata
•   Resources available

Module 13: The Internet

•   SharePoint and the internet

Module 14: Everything else you need to consider

•   Driving adoption
•   Where do you go from here...
•   Resources available