3. Dan Usher
Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
SharePoint Infrastructure Engineer and Architect
MCITP, MCP, MCTS, Security+
Edmond Avanesian
Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
SharePoint Solutions Architect, Project Manager
PMP, ITILv3, …
Who are you?
4. SharePoint in the Wild
SharePoint as a Collaboration and Development
platform…
Considerations for Frameworks and Governance
What to avoid and what definitely doesn’t work
Recovering from disaster…
5. It’s 8 AM on Wednesday morning and SharePoint seems
to be a mess…
Users can’t authenticate to the system…
New software patches were pushed over the weekend
through SUS…
The development team pushed new software updates
out onto the production servers from their dev laptop
virtual machines…
The Infrastructure team changed the switch port
settings…
DNS server IP addresses were changed…
All this happened on one day?!?!
7. Did we have a plan in place?
Anything for Development Guidelines?
Anything for Architecture?
Anything for Implementation?
How about change management?
Did you have a vision or business case for the
use of SharePoint in place?
Did you have a visioning group work to define
needed capabilities and solutions?
17. Start off with the governance checklist…
http://go.spdan.com/xeurd
Use the sample project plans…
http://go.spdan.com/hmewo
Firm up your stakeholders and work to define
solutions that meet their needs…
Hire a SharePoint consultant to assist…
18. Vision…
Use cases…
Planning the enterprise
taxonomy and logical
architecture…
Physical architecture?
Source : http://bit.ly/sps‐ref‐wssLA
http://go.spdan.com/kuouh
22. Develop Use Cases to test against
Regression Testing Plan – Test all cases you create
QA
Use the architecture planning documentation
examples available from Microsoft ‐
http://go.spdan.com/yfeqp