That O365 Guru from Cape Town (#NadirKamdar)

If you managed to catch my SharePoint 2010 and Content Migration presentation for SharePoint Saturday, thank you for attending - as promised, my slides are attached. If you didn't attend my presentation, which is very possible sine the majority of my audience is from the States, India and Jhb.  I tried to make the presentation as clear and detailed as possible.  I also reduced all the unnecessary images I used to give the presentation more live so the downloads are much smaller.  Enjoy.

This article is a continuation of Part 2 - Please read that article first. Phase 3: Development   In the development phase, the solution is built according to the specifications defined by the architect (As defined in Part 2 ).   The development phase requires 2 key players, the SharePoint Administrator and the SharePoint Developer.  Yes - this is two different roles with two different skill sets.  You may want to add SharePoint data-capturer to the list so basic tasks like deploying a taxonomy and site population can be completed by a cheaper resource, allowing the higher skilled resources to spend time on more complex requirements. The SharePoint Administrator The SharePoint Administrator focus is on the setting up, configuration and management of services running on SharePoint.  Anything available "out of the box" from SharePoint can be deployed by the SharePoint Administrator, which should be at least 80% of the entire solution.  (If anyth...

This article is a continuation of Part 1 - Please read that article first.   Phase 2: Planning After the Envision Phase is completed, the Planning Phase starts, that requires a different set of skills. If the Envision Phase is all about "What the Organisation wants", then the Planning Phase is about  "How are we going to give them what they want". Successful projects (SharePoint or otherwise) places a lot of time into planning, on average, 20% of your entire project should be placed in the planning phase, if you get that right, the future phases is just about applying the plan. The experts needed for this phase are as follows: Project Manager Business Analyst SharePoint Architect Infrastructure/network administrator Database administrator SharePoint Designer Steering Committee From the last phase, the Business Analyst would have defined the scope and document what the organisation wants.   In this phase, the SharePoint Architect...

More specifically, assisting the business in migrating content from an old HTML/ASP/ASP.NET website to a new SharePoint site. These old site are probably 10 years old, filled with out of date data, poorly updated, with no owners or any accountable members. When migrating you want to provide the end users with the following Content is current and updated regulary Permissions are assigned and maintained Content is easy to find Content and site is inviting in otherwords, everything that the current site is not providing!! So how do you do it? Well, depending on your timelines, the following approach proved successful. Identify the taxonomy of the new site identify owners of each node of the taxonomy Get them all in one room and prepare them for whats to come Provide simple templates that will help the owners get content in the strucutre that matches the pre-defined taxonomy (define restrictions and governance rules of the sharepoint site) Give the owners time to populate the templates w...