Governance

SharePoint 2010 for Records Management: Figure Out Governance and Compliance Requirements Before Deployment

Governance and compliance play essential roles in your records management (RM) strategy. If the correct foundation is not laid out at the beginning, then you run the risk of encountering multiple setbacks and potential delays when deploying and ultimately using SharePoint. So rather than put it off until the end of your implementation, take some time upfront to determine your record management needs and build them in from the beginning. First of all, how do you want to handle your records? In SharePoint 2010, you have...

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SharePoint Governance: Deployment Plan

This is the final post of our SharePoint Governance series and we hope you have already learned a lot. For this blog, we will be reviewing steps you need to take for your deployment plan. First of all, your deployment plan needs to capture both the hearts and minds of the user community in order to ensure that your solution will be successful. Everyone within your organization needs to be on the same page for your SharePoint site to work for you. The following areas should be incorporated in your rollout and launch...

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SharePoint Governance: Policies

SharePoint Governance: Policies
This is the 2nd post of a three blog series we’re running on SharePoint Governance. If you missed our first post, Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint. For this post, we are going to delve into policies. Don’t go running off just yet! We know policies can get to be headaches, especially if it requires pages and pages of reading. But SharePoint policies are essential in a successful deployment of SharePoint....

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