SharePoint Deployments can be a challenge, and learning from other failures is a great alternative than to hear people's best practices. If you know what makes one fail, can help a ton!
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1. Joel Oleson Quest Software http://www.sharepointjoel.com @joeloleson Joel.oleson@quest.com SharePoint Worst Practices: Anatomy of a Failed Deployment
2. Who is SharePoint Joel? 10 Years of SharePoint 7 Years of SharePoint at MS Blogger, Speaker, Writer SharePoint Product Architect, Evangelist & Strategy @ Quest
3. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison If at first you don't succeed, redefine what you did as success. Stephen Colbert #Fail Quotes #SPSJHB @joeloleson
6. In April 2008 – James Karl Buck, and his translator were detained covering anti-government protest in Egypt. Buck managed tweet simply “arrested.”— less than 24 hours later — he was able to tweet: “free.”
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8. Profile Import and FIM (Forefront Identity Manager) – security requirements
17. Two Very Different Models for Hosting SharePoint as an Application SharePoint as a Platform Easy to Move to Cloud On Premise – High Business Value #SPSJHB @joeloleson
18. Let me optimize the SharePoint Databases #SPSJHB @joeloleson
19. We don’t need a test environment. It costs too much!
22. Permanent Central Portal Enterprise Search Enterprise Browse Corporate Business Taxonomy With Divisional Stakeholders Central Portal Permanent Division Portals Business Process Division News, Scorecards Group Reporting Semi Structured Group, Team, Project Sites and Workspaces Ad Hoc Self Service w/ Life Cycle Management Per User Blogs, bios, Social The SharePoint Pyramid #SPSJHB @joeloleson
23. SharePoint is so awesome, so we’re dumping all our File Shares, Notes, and PFs data
24. There are many tools & solutions with Analysis to help you migrate from Lotus Notes, File Shares, and Public Folders… Hoarders TM
37. We are using In-Place Upgrade because we don’t want to lose anything.
38. Released to the Web SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating Get Prescriptive guidance on Upgrade Methods Drill deep into assessment tools Compare Migration tools Save yourself time
39. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. J. K. Rowling Fail Quotes
Is social media causing the revolutions to happen or is it just an enabling factor? Clearly it is the means by which people are coming together for a common purpose. In social media there is the term Flash Mob which was done more for fun than for political purpose. Today I'd say the instructions for forming and storming are definitely for political purposes--but the concept is the same
These service models provide a starting point to understand the cost implications involved with the solution types that you may want to implement.I want to host team collaboration sites and also my public facing web site on SharePoint.Team sites (Commodity)Public Web Site (Application)Exec Sponsor Governance Plan: Clear Goals, Vision, Mission and MetricsSkilled Team(s)TrainingService Definition & Service ModelEasy to search find and discover: Information ArchitectureStandards and Policies(ITIL/MOF) Change, Configuration and Release Management ProcessesCulture and AdoptionK.I.S.S.