Avoiding Failed SharePoint Deployments: SharePoint Worst Practices

Joel Oleson
Quest Software
http://www.sharepointjoel.com
@joeloleson
Joel.oleson@quest.com
SharePoint Worst Practices: Anatomy of a Failed Deployment

Who is SharePoint Joel?
10 Years of SharePoint
7 Years of SharePoint at MS
Blogger, Speaker, Writer
SharePoint Product Architect, Evangelist & Strategy @ Quest

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

I don’t need the community to succeed…
#SPSJHB

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.”

Claims based authentication with Excel Services and Office Web Apps
Profile Import and FIM (Forefront Identity Manager) – security requirements
http://bit.ly/hdfVhL
December CU Fixes – Important!
#SP2010 Deployment Gotchas!
#SPSJHB @joeloleson

The Story of the Vasa the Greatest Military Ship
#SPSJHB @joeloleson

Initially declared sank due to "imprudence and negligence“
It was TOP HEAVY!
#SPSJHB @joeloleson

We Don’t Know Why We are Doing SharePoint but someone asked for it, so we do it!

SharePoint is Plastic. What is your Creation?

Live by the K.I.S.S. PrincipleKeep it Simple Stupid!

We don’t need training

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

Let me optimize the SharePoint Databases
#SPSJHB @joeloleson

We don’t need a test environment. It costs too much!

SharePoint Life Cycle
Code
Data
#SPSJHB @joeloleson

One Site Collection Can Fit Everything

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

SharePoint is so awesome, so we’re dumping all our File Shares, Notes, and PFs data

There are many tools & solutions with Analysis to help you migrate from Lotus Notes, File Shares, and Public Folders…
Hoarders TM

SharePoint’s Social Features will waste people’s Time

Social Computing in SharePoint 2010 Makes Sense

Forced orTrying to beThe One ManBand

Why do we need sandbox solutions when we can create server solutions that are so much easier?

Let’s turn it all on and see what happens…

What Service Applications will you use?

2010 SharePoint Services and Databases

Service Apps – Local Only
Enterprise

Service Apps – Farm to Farm + WANHTTPS WCF + XML
FAST
*SharePoint Foundation

Joel’s Thoughts on Service Apps

We are using In-Place Upgrade because we don’t want to lose anything.

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

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

Questions?Don’t forget your evals

Avoiding Failed SharePoint Deployments: SharePoint Worst Practices

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