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Recently, I presented a webinar entitled ''The Importance of Governance in Your SharePoint Deployment Plans''.  Governance is becoming a hot topic in SharePoint deployment discussions (thankfully!) as more and more organizations are seeing the value of setting the proper structure and consistency that governance enforces.  I tried to ...

Came across this link yesterday... http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=758413.  It is Chapter 1 from the book I wrote with Scott Jamison and Sue Hanley, ''Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High Impact Collaboration''.  Personally, this is my favorite chapter.  It offers details on planning your SharePoint deployment, ...

A few days ago I wrote a post on the need for a good governance plan in order to ensure the scalability of a SharePoint 2007 depoyment.  Since then, a few folks have asked me about what a governance plan actually contains.  I liken a governance plan to a disaster recovery document... the concept is simple but when you start to peal away ...

When I meet with representatives from organizations interested in SharePoint (SPS 2003 and now MOSS 2007), I am often asked, usually by the IT department, ''Is SharePoint scalable?''  This usually translates to assessing SharePoint's technical ability to handle large numbers of documents or concurrent users.  That question is easy to ...