Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook -- Table of Contents -- Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- Why this book -- Going off the rails -- How this book will save you money, and, just possibly, your career -- Example: The .NET developer -- How to use this book -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Defining a SharePoint IT Strategy -- Q: Can you define what a strategy is? -- Q: What is an IT strategy? -- Q: How do you create a SharePoint IT strategy? -- Day 1: Diagnostics -- Intro to workshop - discussion -- Company background - discussion -- The Focus on IT environment - discussion -- Current IT core applications - discussion -- Future IT core applications - discussion -- Review - discussion -- Day 2: The treatment plan -- Initial findings and review - discussion -- The Gap analysis -- Priorities, actions, and agreement -- Review - discussion -- Day 3: A successful SharePoint implementation plan -- Next steps - discussion -- Summary and close out -- Q: What is the intended outcome of the workshop? -- Q: Who needs to be involved with the process? -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: Do I need to get the CEO involved? -- Q: Why is a SharePoint strategy different than other IT products? -- Q: What are the pitfalls of a SharePoint strategy? -- Q: Why do we really need an IT strategy? -- Digging deeper -- Q: Any final words of advice on this? -- Summary -- 2. Just Enough Governance -- Q. What is governance?.

Q. Why do we need it? -- Q: So where do I start with governance? -- Q: Who should be involved with SharePoint governance? -- Case study: Include everyone -- Q: Is it worth hiring a consulting firm to create your company's governance documentation? -- Q: Why does it seem that SharePoint requires more governance than other technologies? -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: How do you define "just enough governance"? -- Q: How do I strike this so-called "balance"? -- Q: Well, we have got this far without governance with SharePoint, so why bother? -- Q: Our existing governance plan hasn't improved deployments or reduced frustrations -- any suggestions? -- Q: Won't governance slow down the speed of innovation? -- Digging deeper -- Q: Where can I find further information on a governance approach with SharePoint? -- Summary -- 3. Deployment Roadmap -- Q: Which edition of SharePoint is right for me? -- SharePoint Foundation -- SharePoint Server 2010 Standard -- SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise -- FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint 2010 -- SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard -- SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise -- Microsoft Office 365 -- FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Sites -- Q: Where should I deploy SharePoint? What choices do I really have? -- On-premise -- Hosted -- Cloud -- Hybrid -- So what do I choose? -- Q: What about licensing? What are my options and how much will it cost? -- What edition of SharePoint does my company need? -- Who are my end users? -- How many servers will run SharePoint? -- How many people or devices will access SharePoint? -- Is my company licensed for the Microsoft products that are needed to run SharePoint? -- Enterprise Agreement -- Q: SharePoint 2010 Development, Quality Assurance, Production - how many farms do I actually need?.

Q: What do I need to know about storage requirements and their impact on my deployment strategy? -- Estimating content database storage -- Data scale -- Q: Intranet, extranet - which SharePoint topology is right for me? -- Intranets -- Extranets -- Public-facing Internet sites -- Q: What about authentication for end users -- what options are available to me? -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: Is there any way for me to migrate my existing licenses, instead of having to obtain new ones? -- Q: What do I need to know about web browsers, tablets, and mobile phones? -- Web browsers -- Mobile phones -- Tablets -- Q: Why are companies resistant to My Sites -- can this attitude ever change? -- Q: I've heard that Office 2010 is the only version that integrates with SharePoint 2010. Is this true, and what are some other MS products that integrate with SharePoint 2010? -- Disaster recovery -- Antivirus -- Security -- Monitoring and management -- Project management -- Business intelligence -- Client applications -- Digging deeper -- SharePoint editions -- SharePoint licensing -- Capacity planning -- Extranet topologies -- Public-facing SharePoint sites -- Authentication mechanisms -- Summary -- 4. SharePoint in the Clouds -- Q: What options do I actually have for cloud-based SharePoint 2010? -- Public cloud -- Private cloud -- Community cloud -- Hybrid cloud -- Q: How can I use Amazon Web Services for SharePoint 2010? -- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud -- Amazon Elastic Block Store -- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud -- Elastic Load Balancing -- Q: This doesn't sound like a turn-key solution. Where does Amazon's responsibility end and where does mine begin? -- Amazon infrastructure -- Windows infrastructure -- SharePoint infrastructure -- Q: Can I create a Microsoft private cloud solution for SharePoint? -- Technology Stack -- Licensing -- Benefits.

Q: Office 365 and SharePoint Online - how many offerings and plans are actually out there? -- Dedicated versus Standard -- Small businesses -- Midsize businesses and enterprises -- Education -- Kiosk Plans -- Q: What authentication options do I have for SharePoint Online? -- Microsoft Online Services IDs -- Microsoft Windows Live IDs -- ADFS 2.0 and SSO -- Q: What about Windows Azure and SharePoint 2010? How can I take advantage of this offering? -- Service -- Data -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: Security is always a concern. What can I do to secure my SharePoint deployment in the cloud? -- Amazon security -- SharePoint security -- Q: How do I migrate my on-premise deployment to SharePoint Online? What are my options? -- Q: I've been told that SharePoint online has less features than its on-premise counterpart. What is it missing? -- Digging deeper -- Amazon Web Services -- Private Clouds -- Office 365 -- Migration -- Windows Azure -- Summary -- 5. SharePoint and Important Trends -- Q: How big is SharePoint to Microsoft? -- Q: Which IT trends matter? -- Q: What are the user experience trends? -- Users choose their interface and the sources for those interfaces -- Users choose between desktop, web, mobile, and other forms of technology-driven information consumption -- Mobile, tablet, and other forms of consumption have had mixed experiences -- One browser doesn't rule them all -- Growing screen resolutions and growing accessibility expectations -- Q: What are the IT delivery trends? -- Q: What are the collaboration and communication trends? -- Q: Do social computing technologies really help businesses, and is SharePoint really a social computing platform? -- Q: What are the data and information trends and how is SharePoint meeting this demand? -- What is BI for the masses? -- The Microsoft BI Stack -- Search first, ask questions later.

SharePoint and FAST -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: What are the security trends? -- SharePoint permission sprawl -- Environment security -- Q: How agile is SharePoint? -- What is agile? -- Q: SharePoint applications: Is it better to buy or build? -- Q: What are the reasons for the rapid growth of more SharePoint applications that you can download and activate? -- Digging deeper -- Q: What are your internal corporate trends? -- Q: What are the consumer trends? -- Q: What are other industry and technology trends? -- Summary -- 6. How to get the .NET Developers on Board Quickly? -- Q: What's so different about SharePoint development compared to .NET development? -- Q: How should we approach SharePoint development? -- Have a source-control strategy -- Create a development environment -- Build a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment -- Build a production environment -- Deployment strategy -- Q: What roadblocks do new SharePoint developers face? -- Complementary SharePoint technology -- Q: How do we avoid mistakes in the early stages? -- Q: Can you provide an example of when a straight .NET development is more appropriate than SharePoint .NET? -- Q: What do I need to know to get started in SharePoint development? -- .NET development -- How SharePoint features function within the platform -- How to deploy customizations -- Q: What technical environment do I need to get started with SharePoint development? -- Q: Do developers ever resist the SharePoint developer route? -- SharePoint development is not considered professional development -- Developers do not want to work within a product -- Most developers do not want to be end user focused -- Funny you should say that... -- Q: How do I know that my developers just do not have the SharePoint knowledge? -- Q: Does a SharePoint developer need better than normal communication skills? -- Digging deeper.

Q: How can I learn SharePoint development as fast as possible?.