Your organization has deployed SharePoint as the ultimate collaboration platform that will solve all your problems in a blink of an eye. However you, as the content owner, are still struggling with end users and all the SharePoint features. In this session we are going to discuss tools you have at hand and simple and effective scenarios you can implement on your portal. These will help end-users to perform day-to-day operations with ease and to boost the overall SharePoint adoption.
Language: English
Session Level: Intermediate
Driving Behavioral Change for Information Management through Data-Driven Gree...
Best Practices To Boost Your SharePoint Implementation
1. Best scenarios to boost your SharePoint implementation Toni Frankola Perpetuum Mobile d.o.o., Croatia http://www.sharepointusecases.comhttp://www.endusersharepoint.comhttp://twitter.com/tonifrankola
10. The problem 10% - SharePoint technology 90% - SharePoint Content and People
11. SharePoint planning / requirements Find out what are the requirements Requirements gathering before installation Find features that you really need: Not every enterprise requires MOSS Enterprise Build vs. Buy (www.sharepointreviews.com)
13. SharePoint - Lego® approach (2) Take small steps Simple collaboration and lists Education is not enough They must use it Customize SharePoint for your »child« age
24. Eat your own dog food SharePoint team should publish a blog How-to guides Information about new features Anything SharePoint relegated Document SharePoint installations wiki
26. Trick – Information push End users prefer to be notified via email Push info via »Alert me« Subscribe their AD group They will not be able unsubscribe
29. Automated Knowledge Base (2) Apply this rule after the message arrivesfrom Microsoft Support and contains Re: in the subjectforward to ms-knowledgebase@intranet.local
30. Automated Knowledge Base - Benefits Everybody can learn from communication New employees included Available even when you are Out of office Please note: Available with Exchange SharePoint Search indexes all the solutions
32. Eat your own dog food (3) SharePoint Issue tracking on SharePoint Start on top of Microsoft Templates Expand as needed Email integration Workflows Custom reporting Source: http://endusersharepoint.com
35. SharePoint as self-service HR portal WIN-WIN situation HR Ideas (some available as Microsoft Templates) Annual leaves Expense Employee training Employee activities Employee benefits Hiring and firing Lending libraries
36. HR application »ingredients« OOTB WSS A workflow tool Security, approvals, calculations... My recommendation: Use Nintex Workflow 2007 Managers looove lazy approval Keep it simple Try to use simple web forms instead of InfoPath Make rich UIs with JQuery
37. Workflow benefits Cut approval times shortened From days to within 1 business hour Reports show you bottlenecks
50. Advanced Meta-data structure Meta data that has: Many-to-many relationships Hierachies Customer > Invoice > Invoice Product Report data Best practice: Use your own database
52. Internal Phonebook Scenario Benefits: OOTB functionality Simple to use Access 2007 for printing Connect to Outlook Sync to your Mobile device Bamboo > snyc with User Profiles
53. Internal Phonebook Scenario (2) Printing with Access 2007 (OOTB) Search Contacts as you type (check my blog)
55. The importance of Search * Per 1000 employees Sources: Versus – Windows Live Enterprise Search, Dec 2006;IDC – Content Technologies Search Study, 2004-2005;Forrester – The Forrester Wave, Enterprise Search Platforms, 2006.
56. Quick wins Search as you Type by Jan Tielens Customer: Toni, please remove all other searches, we will use this one from now on.
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58. Thank you! Toni Frankola http://www.sharepointusecases.com http://twitter.com/tonifrankola
