The document outlines a case study for migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013. It describes the clients as construction companies with slow adoption of changes. The goals are to create a unified SharePoint 2013 on-premises environment. Business drivers include performance issues, unhelpful search, and low user adoption in the previous environments. The proposed solution is to migrate content to the new environment using a third-party tool and realign content. Challenges include limited resources and user unhappiness with the current system. Potential benefits include cost savings, improved search and support, and increased efficiency. The plan involves various stages such as user engagement, governance, installation, migration, and decommissioning the previous environments.
SharePoint Saturday Houston 2016
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Movin on Up - ScarePoint Friday Cincinnati 2016Jim Adcock
Cincinnati's version of SharePoint Saturday, on a Friday before Halloween
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Building the intranet of the future: Using SharePoint to empower collaborationNate Chamberlain
Presented at multiple SharePoint Saturday events including Omaha, Baltimore and St. Louis.
Automation, organization, incredible search capabilities and user interactivity; all things your organization can have in choosing to build an intranet with SharePoint. We’ll discuss avoiding File Dump 2.0 by exploring best practices in internal communications and collaboration via intranets, rethinking forms and minimizing busy work by utilizing automation capabilities in SPD workflows and Microsoft Flow and designing intuitive navigation.
Credera was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Share Cloud Dallas 2012.
Jesus Salazar, a Principal with Credera and member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Development Advisory Council, presented on the topic of Office 365 Migration Planning.
OneDrive for Business: Much More Than a File ShareErica Toelle
At first glance, it seems OneDrive for Business may be a return to the file share days, with folders and files located on a server somewhere. In reality, it's a powerful enterprise content management tool with a robust list of features, including unlimited cloud storage per user. In this session, you'll learn about the features of OneDrive for Business and best practices for including it in your information management toolbox. You'll discuss how it fits into your SharePoint on premise and cloud roadmap, what content to put where, and how to migrate data from a file share or competitive platform into OneDrive for Business.
Is your organization looking to move your email to the cloud in order to get more space, better access and improved uptime? There are two big players the cloud space: Office 365 and Google Apps. Both are enterprise level systems with a range of features and benefits, but which one is the right for your organization?
Matthew Eshleman, Director of Professional Services at Community IT Innovators, provided an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Office 365 and Google Apps. He will also share case studies of organizations that have moved to both platforms, issues they faced in the transition, and costs involved with moving to these cloud platforms.
This webinar covered the following topics.
- Understanding the fine print in the service level agreement
- Staff training and buy-in required
- Costs involved in setting it up
- Moving data in and how to move data out in the future
SharePoint Saturday Houston 2016
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Movin on Up - ScarePoint Friday Cincinnati 2016Jim Adcock
Cincinnati's version of SharePoint Saturday, on a Friday before Halloween
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Building the intranet of the future: Using SharePoint to empower collaborationNate Chamberlain
Presented at multiple SharePoint Saturday events including Omaha, Baltimore and St. Louis.
Automation, organization, incredible search capabilities and user interactivity; all things your organization can have in choosing to build an intranet with SharePoint. We’ll discuss avoiding File Dump 2.0 by exploring best practices in internal communications and collaboration via intranets, rethinking forms and minimizing busy work by utilizing automation capabilities in SPD workflows and Microsoft Flow and designing intuitive navigation.
Credera was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Share Cloud Dallas 2012.
Jesus Salazar, a Principal with Credera and member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Development Advisory Council, presented on the topic of Office 365 Migration Planning.
OneDrive for Business: Much More Than a File ShareErica Toelle
At first glance, it seems OneDrive for Business may be a return to the file share days, with folders and files located on a server somewhere. In reality, it's a powerful enterprise content management tool with a robust list of features, including unlimited cloud storage per user. In this session, you'll learn about the features of OneDrive for Business and best practices for including it in your information management toolbox. You'll discuss how it fits into your SharePoint on premise and cloud roadmap, what content to put where, and how to migrate data from a file share or competitive platform into OneDrive for Business.
Is your organization looking to move your email to the cloud in order to get more space, better access and improved uptime? There are two big players the cloud space: Office 365 and Google Apps. Both are enterprise level systems with a range of features and benefits, but which one is the right for your organization?
Matthew Eshleman, Director of Professional Services at Community IT Innovators, provided an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Office 365 and Google Apps. He will also share case studies of organizations that have moved to both platforms, issues they faced in the transition, and costs involved with moving to these cloud platforms.
This webinar covered the following topics.
- Understanding the fine print in the service level agreement
- Staff training and buy-in required
- Costs involved in setting it up
- Moving data in and how to move data out in the future
With the arrival of SharePoint 2013 on the market and the push for Office 365, many are planning to make the move on to this new version of SharePoint. I consider myself lucky to have already participated to a few of these so far. Often, I come across some challenges in the organization surrounding this upgrade. I thought I would put up this post and hopefully some of you will continue the reasons a migration can fail through the comments.
To help teams be more productive, we need to change the way we think about meetings. Today, a meeting is typically treated as a stand-alone event, and the phone and video conferencing tools people use are designed to support that event.
What if we approached meetings in a more connected way – not as discrete events, but as a series of connected gatherings that drive collaborative progress? This approach is at the heart of how we built the meeting experience in Microsoft Teams.
We built Microsoft Teams to help people meet smarter. Stay focused. And achieve more.
Microsoft continues to tout the message of ‘Cloud This,’ ‘Surface That,’ and ‘Office 365 for all of your business needs,’ but what does it all mean? Do you feel like a “Zombie” with all of this messaging? You’re not alone. Office 365 is becoming such an important piece of Microsoft’s enterprise strategy that if you haven’t looked into its offerings, benefits and cost savings, you won’t know what you’re missing.
In this informative webinar, we deconstruct the offerings within Office 365 and clearly translate these solutions into business value and potential savings that your business will understand. Plus, get answers to your questions during our interactive Q&A session.
In this informative 60-minute webinar we will help you build your timeline, prepare your move, and learn ways to work with your users for a smooth transition. We’ll also discuss how to leverage SharePoint, Yammer, and One Drive for Business to truly realize the value they can offer. You will walk away being able to:
• Build your own timeline for moving to the cloud
• Understand the challanges in planning your Office 365 migration
• Know how to leverage the features of Office 365
• Describe common roll-out scenarios to your stakeholders
Making a real world sharing strategy for SharePoint, OneDrive & TeamsDrew Madelung
The world of sharing has changed, and our enterprise strategies need to adapt to them. There are many ways that your users are sharing files throughout Office 365 whether you know about them or not.
In this session we will walk you through the technical options you have to configure internal and external sharing and how to establish a sharing strategy that aligns to your business processes that you can take back with you!
Your journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft TeamsSasja Beerendonk
Your journey from Skype for Business to Teams - Beezy
Office 365 & SP Connect in Haarlem, October 2019
Moving from Skype for Business is not a simple upgrade. It requires a whole new way of working, confronting employees with a lot of new apps and features. It's a first step towards team collaboration. It immediately opens the door to the next required step: organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
SharePoint 2016 is coming and with it, Microsoft puts the focus on hybrid solutions.
What do you need to know?
In this webnar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Jill Hannemann discuss SharePoint 2016, including:
- What is a hybrid solution?
- How has hybrid grown in importance?
- What new hybrid capabilities are coming?
- How will hybrid solutions impact the future of SharePoint?
- What other changes should we expect?
In this presentation, I cover
--Account personalizations (about you and start page)
--Sign into your Office apps on the desktop to add your account(s)
--Add your places (you can have OneDrive for Biz, OneDrive, SharePoint & more)
--Introduction to main apps (Teams, OneDrive for Business & SharePoint)
--Resources
--Subscribe to my YouTube channel and my newsletter
Simple, Straightforward, and Jargon-Free Answers to basic questions including:
What is Office 365?
What is Office 365 used for?
How much does Office 365 cost?
Is Office 365 secure?
How does Office 365 stack up against the competition?
How difficult is it to migrate your existing files?
To help you make an informed decision about whether Office 365 is right for your business.
It doesn't get any sweeter than this. As of September 1st, Microsoft started offering huge incentives to encourage organizations to move to the cloud. So if you are already kicking the tires on Office 365 or perhaps just migrated Exchange to Office 365, these new features and unprecedented incentives recently announced now make a pretty compelling case to make the move to Office 365.
How to Get Nonprofit Office 365 Cloud SubscriptionsTechSoup
Have you heard about Microsoft Office 365 and are ready to use Microsoft cloud solutions, but unsure of how to get started? We’ll walk you through what subscriptions are available to nonprofits, how you can learn more about making the right choices for your organization, and your options for how to request the licenses you need. This webinar is best suited for those who are ready to explore moving to Office 365 or that already have a Microsoft nonprofit cloud account set up. In this webinar, we will discuss:
- What Office 365 licenses are available to nonprofits
- How to get qualified for purchasing licenses
- Requesting your licenses
- Ways TechSoup can help you through this process
Managing OneDrive for Business - SPSNYCDrew Madelung
OneDrive for Business (OD4B) is a key workload in Office 365 and can be an integral part of your collaboration strategy. OD4B provides a cloud location to store, share, and sync your work files and then work with them from any device. Microsoft has spent a lot of effort to get a rock-solid solution including a well-oiled sync engine together.
You may have heard the buzz - Microsoft has announced their release of a new messaging app for Office 365 - Microsoft Teams. This release is in response to the competitor in the collaborative chat service field, Slack.
Microsoft Teams fully integrates with Office 365 and is highly customizable. The new app has the ability to start an online meeting with your team, schedule a meeting, gather your thoughts, brainstorm, and collaborate on documents.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Joshua Steiner talk about why these types of apps are so popular, what makes Microsoft Teams unique and how the new app will impact your Office 365 experience.
SharePoint Engage Phoenix 2017
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
April 29 2017 - SharePoint Saturday Houston 2017
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
With the arrival of SharePoint 2013 on the market and the push for Office 365, many are planning to make the move on to this new version of SharePoint. I consider myself lucky to have already participated to a few of these so far. Often, I come across some challenges in the organization surrounding this upgrade. I thought I would put up this post and hopefully some of you will continue the reasons a migration can fail through the comments.
To help teams be more productive, we need to change the way we think about meetings. Today, a meeting is typically treated as a stand-alone event, and the phone and video conferencing tools people use are designed to support that event.
What if we approached meetings in a more connected way – not as discrete events, but as a series of connected gatherings that drive collaborative progress? This approach is at the heart of how we built the meeting experience in Microsoft Teams.
We built Microsoft Teams to help people meet smarter. Stay focused. And achieve more.
Microsoft continues to tout the message of ‘Cloud This,’ ‘Surface That,’ and ‘Office 365 for all of your business needs,’ but what does it all mean? Do you feel like a “Zombie” with all of this messaging? You’re not alone. Office 365 is becoming such an important piece of Microsoft’s enterprise strategy that if you haven’t looked into its offerings, benefits and cost savings, you won’t know what you’re missing.
In this informative webinar, we deconstruct the offerings within Office 365 and clearly translate these solutions into business value and potential savings that your business will understand. Plus, get answers to your questions during our interactive Q&A session.
In this informative 60-minute webinar we will help you build your timeline, prepare your move, and learn ways to work with your users for a smooth transition. We’ll also discuss how to leverage SharePoint, Yammer, and One Drive for Business to truly realize the value they can offer. You will walk away being able to:
• Build your own timeline for moving to the cloud
• Understand the challanges in planning your Office 365 migration
• Know how to leverage the features of Office 365
• Describe common roll-out scenarios to your stakeholders
Making a real world sharing strategy for SharePoint, OneDrive & TeamsDrew Madelung
The world of sharing has changed, and our enterprise strategies need to adapt to them. There are many ways that your users are sharing files throughout Office 365 whether you know about them or not.
In this session we will walk you through the technical options you have to configure internal and external sharing and how to establish a sharing strategy that aligns to your business processes that you can take back with you!
Your journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft TeamsSasja Beerendonk
Your journey from Skype for Business to Teams - Beezy
Office 365 & SP Connect in Haarlem, October 2019
Moving from Skype for Business is not a simple upgrade. It requires a whole new way of working, confronting employees with a lot of new apps and features. It's a first step towards team collaboration. It immediately opens the door to the next required step: organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
SharePoint 2016 is coming and with it, Microsoft puts the focus on hybrid solutions.
What do you need to know?
In this webnar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Jill Hannemann discuss SharePoint 2016, including:
- What is a hybrid solution?
- How has hybrid grown in importance?
- What new hybrid capabilities are coming?
- How will hybrid solutions impact the future of SharePoint?
- What other changes should we expect?
In this presentation, I cover
--Account personalizations (about you and start page)
--Sign into your Office apps on the desktop to add your account(s)
--Add your places (you can have OneDrive for Biz, OneDrive, SharePoint & more)
--Introduction to main apps (Teams, OneDrive for Business & SharePoint)
--Resources
--Subscribe to my YouTube channel and my newsletter
Simple, Straightforward, and Jargon-Free Answers to basic questions including:
What is Office 365?
What is Office 365 used for?
How much does Office 365 cost?
Is Office 365 secure?
How does Office 365 stack up against the competition?
How difficult is it to migrate your existing files?
To help you make an informed decision about whether Office 365 is right for your business.
It doesn't get any sweeter than this. As of September 1st, Microsoft started offering huge incentives to encourage organizations to move to the cloud. So if you are already kicking the tires on Office 365 or perhaps just migrated Exchange to Office 365, these new features and unprecedented incentives recently announced now make a pretty compelling case to make the move to Office 365.
How to Get Nonprofit Office 365 Cloud SubscriptionsTechSoup
Have you heard about Microsoft Office 365 and are ready to use Microsoft cloud solutions, but unsure of how to get started? We’ll walk you through what subscriptions are available to nonprofits, how you can learn more about making the right choices for your organization, and your options for how to request the licenses you need. This webinar is best suited for those who are ready to explore moving to Office 365 or that already have a Microsoft nonprofit cloud account set up. In this webinar, we will discuss:
- What Office 365 licenses are available to nonprofits
- How to get qualified for purchasing licenses
- Requesting your licenses
- Ways TechSoup can help you through this process
Managing OneDrive for Business - SPSNYCDrew Madelung
OneDrive for Business (OD4B) is a key workload in Office 365 and can be an integral part of your collaboration strategy. OD4B provides a cloud location to store, share, and sync your work files and then work with them from any device. Microsoft has spent a lot of effort to get a rock-solid solution including a well-oiled sync engine together.
You may have heard the buzz - Microsoft has announced their release of a new messaging app for Office 365 - Microsoft Teams. This release is in response to the competitor in the collaborative chat service field, Slack.
Microsoft Teams fully integrates with Office 365 and is highly customizable. The new app has the ability to start an online meeting with your team, schedule a meeting, gather your thoughts, brainstorm, and collaborate on documents.
In this webinar, Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Joshua Steiner talk about why these types of apps are so popular, what makes Microsoft Teams unique and how the new app will impact your Office 365 experience.
SharePoint Engage Phoenix 2017
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
April 29 2017 - SharePoint Saturday Houston 2017
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Using sharepoint to solve business problems #spsnairobi2014Amos Wachanga
Using sharepoint to solve business problems #spsnairobi2014. This presentation was done by Amos Wachanga of Techno Brain Ltd at Sharepoint Saturday Nairobi event on 18th Oct 2014, held at Techno Brain HQ in Nairobi, Kenya.
The presentation creates a business scenario at start, then introduces Sharepoint and mentions some key features that would solve identified business problems, and finally using the case study and examples, ties it all down through a typical solution creation for the business scenario.
SharePoint 2013 Migration - Your 5 Rules for SuccessChristian Buckley
An overview of SharePoint 2013, and best practices for organizing and orchestrating your migration to the latest version of SharePoint -- whether on prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid. Includes a quick overview of PointBeyond's migration planning services.
As we all know, more and more organizations are starting to question “Do we or do we not implement Office 365?”. However, as these discussions are taking place; governance is rarely addressed or considered. The main reason is that the majority believe that once they have implemented governance that they are done; unless there is an update such as a server name change or an employee change (such as a departure or addition). During the initial planning around governance it is likely that there were discussions around auditing of the governance document and potential quarterly reviews to ensure that the document is up to date and still fits the business. However, it is common to forget that after that fact; even though it is documented “within the governance document”.
Governance becomes even more important with Office 365 just because its cloud based and ever changing with new and deprecated features on a pretty regular basis. This means all of the content, backup, recovery, etc. are all handled by Microsoft and you have virtually no control over it (Can you say MAJOR SLA impact?). In this session we will review the areas of concern and how they can be addressed within the governance document, the importance of reviewing the document frequently; and ways to make the information available to your internal SharePoint Community. In addition, we will review the features of Office 365 that will have a major impact on SharePoint and Office Apps. We will review each of these applications and the areas of importance that should be addressed in the governance document, as well as why each of them are important.
SharePoint migrations rarely turn out as you plan them. They are sometimes risky and too often take longer than planned. Over the last 10 years of migrating from SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 to the latest versions of SharePoint/Office 365 we’ve seen a consistent theme -- organizations underestimate the complexity and level of effort required for a successful, smooth migration.
Whether you are planning to complete your own migration, or engaging a vendor to assist, this webinar will discuss precautions you can take to avoid the slippery slope experienced in SharePoint migrations.
Join Jill Hannemann, Adam Levithan and our special guest Ryan Tully from Metalogix as they:
- Go through the assessment steps to understand the full landscape of your existing SharePoint environment
- Review methodologies for moving content from one environment to the next
- Outline precautions you should take in migrating to either SharePoint 2013 on-premise or online
SharePoint migrations rarely turn out as you plan them. They are sometimes risky and too often take longer than planned. Over the last 10 years of migrating from SharePoint 2003, 2007, 2010 to the latest versions of SharePoint/Office 365 we’ve seen a consistent theme -- organizations underestimate the complexity and level of effort required for a successful, smooth migration.
Whether you are planning to complete your own migration, or engaging a vendor to assist, this webinar will discuss precautions you can take to avoid the slippery slope experienced in SharePoint migrations.
SPS Toronto 2017 Keith Tuomi - Migrating to SharePoint Online & OneDrive for ...Keith Tuomi
My SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2017 deck, focusing on the strategy and tactics that drive an intelligent, phased approach for migrating to Office 365, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
SP Fest Denver - O365 Governance: One Area Cloud May Not Be SimplerStacy Deere
Random things we all typically hear when it comes to Governance…
• Not on top of the list right now
• Not in the budget
• We’ll get to it later
• Not really seeing the need…
I have yet to hear 1 valid reason as to why Governance should not be completed, maintained, or approved in budgets. Governance really is not an option in any organization if you want your processes and procedures followed by employees. Each time I have been involved in a project where governance was put on the back burner there have been issues with not knowing what other departments processes were, building themselves into a corner, not meeting service level agreements, and the list goes on and on. If there is no one source of truth in how all the functions of the business run, how are you ever going to build a solid foundation and keep it running at the level it needs to run so that your organization can be successful? In this session we will review what governance is, how it can be useful, how you can get started, maintain it, and most importantly how to get it approved!
Guiding a Successful SharePoint ImplementationRandy Williams
August 25 session
SharePoint is transforming the way organizations are connecting their people, business processes, and enterprise-wide information. In this exclusive two-part series on 23 & 25 August, led by SharePoint MVP Randy Williams, IT managers and SharePoint users will walk away with the blueprint they need to ensure they can successfully deploy SharePoint to meet their specific business needs.
In this session, learn the best practices and common pitfalls innate in implementing SharePoint in order to ensure your SharePoint service offering is right on the mark, the first time.
SharePoint Engage Phoenix 2017, co-presented with Liz Sundet
How to create and use Promoted Links to drive user engagement and simplify navigation inside SharePoint
SharePoint Group Therapy Expanded Edition - SPEngage Phoenix 2017Jim Adcock
SharePoint Engage Phoenix 2017, March 14, 2017
This expanded edition of SharePoint Group Therapy incudes content from the SharePoint Governance 101 session to level-set conference attendees understanding of SharePoint Governance with new interactive exercises before deep-diving into their governance issues.
What does governance mean in SharePoint? How do you get to good governance? Do you really need governance? What happens if you don’t have governance, or do it poorly?
Bring your questions and Jim will bring his experience building SharePoint governance in multiple organizations. We’ll discuss governance basics and help get you going in the right direction.
Do your users complain about the usability of your SharePoint? Do you suffer from site proliferation? Rights management issues? Content inaccuracy and staleness? Can you easily tell who owns the content of a particular site or list? Is your SharePoint out of control? Then you might benefit from SharePoint Therapy. At the very least, this class will give you a free hour of therapy, giving you a chance to vent about your (SharePoint) problems in a roomful of sympathetic listeners.
The instructor will act as therapist and help move participants past their trauma and regain a sense of control through Governance.
Since the goal of therapy is to actually make things better, you should bring your questions and be prepared to share personal experiences regarding SharePoint governance (and its absence) and aligning your business objectives with SharePoint. We will discuss:
•What problems are you having in your environment?
•What fears do you have about implementing governance?
•What fears do you have about implementing SharePoint?
We’ll talk roles and responsibilities, stakeholder involvement, when to fit your organizational culture and when to change it using both carrots and sticks – training, enforcement & business alignment.
Business alignment can be seen as the marriage of IT and business objectives. Every marriage has its rocky moments, and sometimes a therapist is needed to resolve those issues. Perhaps your marriage could benefit from a little SharePoint Group Therapy?
SharePoint Governance 101 SPBiz June 2015Jim Adcock
June 17, 2015
What does governance mean in SharePoint? How do you get to good governance? Do you really need governance? What happens if you don’t have governance, or do it poorly?
Bring your questions and Jim will bring his experience building SharePoint governance in multiple organizations. We’ll discuss governance basics and help get you going in the right direction.
(Unlike the "Group Therapy" session, this is a straight-up presentation, though the Q&A at the end can be used by the audience to ask their specific questions)
September 14, 2016 - Austin SharePoint User Group
What does governance mean in SharePoint? How do you get to good governance? Do you really need governance? What happens if you don’t have governance, or do it poorly?
Jim brings his experience building SharePoint governance in multiple organizations. The session covers governance basics to help get you going in the right direction.
(Unlike the "Group Therapy" session, this is a straight-up presentation, though the Q&A at the end can be used by the audience to ask their specific questions)
This slide deck is from the presentation On September 14, 2016 at the Austin O365 & SharePoint User Group
My presentation to the Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group, September 7, 2016
The basics of SharePoint Governance - what you need to consider when implementing governance, how to create a plan, and how to make governance work in the long term.
MS Ignite Report - San Antonio SharePoint User Group 2015-05-19Jim Adcock
The May meeting of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group was a panel discussion of the recent Microsoft Ignite conference.
Here are the slides from the conference overview.
Slide deck from my SharePoint Governance Group Therapy session at SharePoint Saturday Houston. This sessions is structured as a workshop, so there aren't a lot of slides, Feel free to contact me if you have questions!
Tools, Techniques and Resources for Supporting Supporting the Dis-employed as...Jim Adcock
Presentation from November 2010 on ways to help unemployed survive unemployment and get a new job! Audience is caregivers in the St Martin's Lutheran Church Stephen Ministry
Can I Use Twitter to Help My Career - TweetCamp San AntonioJim Adcock
This is the updated version of the presentation I gave at TweetCamp San Antonio in 2009. While the interface has changed some, the basics of using Twitter as an intelligence gathering and connection-making tool to aid your career have remained the same.
Can I Use Twitter to Help My Career - Launch Pad Job ClubJim Adcock
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithy
Movin’ On Up - A #SharePoint Migration Case Study #HSPUG
1. Movin’ On Up
A SharePoint 2013
Migration Case Study
Houston SharePoint User Group
February 19, 2014
2. Jim Adcock, The SharePoint Therapist
Director, Enterprise Development
Dynamic Systems
http://dlairman.wordpress.com
http://SharePointTherapist.com
@dlairman
Focused on Governance, User Adoption, Business Process Automation
Thursdays at 11:30 am
Fridays at 10:00 am
3.
4. The Clients
A nearly century-old construction company
(slow to make changes)
A 40 year old construction company
(with many of its employees dating back to the company’s
founding)
5. The Environment
Existing SharePoint 2007
~400 GB in the content DB
Pilot SharePoint 2010
Records Center
Office 365
Project that needed ability to collaborate with external
entities, not enough resources at the time to set up their own
extranet
External services (some approved, some not)
Box, Dropbox, etc.
7. Business Drivers
Some performance issues in 2007
(All 400 GB in a single content DB)
Unhelpful search results
Required support for legacy customizations
Low user adoption
Lots of files sent via e-mail
Shadow resources may be in use (Box, etc.)
Access controls out of control
Lots of folders! (Intentionally designed to mirror the old paper
document storage)
8. Proposed Solution
Migrate content into new environment using third-party tool
Cleans up access controls
Allows creation and assignment of content types
Leaves behind stale content
No customization ghosts
Realign content into smaller content databases
Alternative – script migration using PowerShell
9. Challenges
Resources dedicated to SAP implementation
Funding limitations
Server resources
Turnover of SharePoint staff
Datacenter and office move
Users not happy with current SharePoint environment
(Therefore SharePoint sucks!)
12. Potential Wins
Once the migration is complete:
Resources dedicated to supporting the two older environments
can be reclaimed
Costs of the cloud environment and approved third-party cloud
services eliminated
SP2013 costs less than SP2010, skipping 2010 makes sense
Example Savings
# of Internal Users 100
# of Servers 2
Internal CAL
Enterprise (Est.)
Cost
SharePoint 2010
$
82
$
40,000
$
88,200
SharePoint 2013
$
94
$
7,000
$
23,400
$
64,800
Saving (Est.):
15. The Plan
Documents customized to reflect the
existing environment and desired
outcomes labeled as “Plan”, and as-yet
un-customized docs are “Templates”.
As the templates get filled out, they
become plans.
16. To Do
Engage the users!
Determine Governance
Determine Architecture
Install Servers and Software
Configure 2013 Environment
User Training
Content Migration
Application Migration
Decommission 2007 and 2010
17. User Engagement
Contest: Name SharePoint!
$50 prize!
Nearly 1/3 of users participated!
52 Suggestions
94 Votes in 1st round, 125 in 2nd
25
15
5
5
Survey: What do you like/hate
about the current system?
4
4
22. Upgrade project kickoff meeting with key stakeholders (Presentation Rough
Draft)
MAKE IT BETTER!
INTRANET MIGRATION TO SHAREPOINT 2013
23. WE’RE GETTING AN UPGRADE
• SharePoint 2013 has some great new features – including a more
intuitive interface!
• Streamlined Permissions – it will be easier for you to get access to your
stuff!
• Better Search – it will be easier for you to find what you are looking for!
24. BETTER SEARCH!
• So significant, I had to mention it again!
• You know how Google has gotten better over the years at giving you
what you are looking for? Microsoft has figured out that it needs to
step up its game.
26. THAT’S THE CARROT
• Carrots are good for you!
• But you aren’t a horse, and carrots may not be your favorite food…
• In other words, while it is good for you, you might have to “eat” some
things that you may not like the taste of in order to reap the benefits.
27. CHANGE CAN BE HARD….
• But we are going to do everything we can to make it as easy as
possible to get to the good stuff.
28. WHY SHAREPOINT?
Provides a secure place to store documents
•
•
•
•
•
Always backed up
Always available (cloud!)
Version control
Access control
Alerts – stay informed of changes!
32. A FEW CHANGES…
• Additional Governance - Consistent look and feel across the
organization
• Better experience for the end users – you!
• More consistent system behavior
• More consistent search results!
• Behavior - Never add another attachment to e-mail
• Cost savings!
• No more playing “Which version is correct?”
• No more folders!
• Say what?!?!?
33. FILE FOLDERS ARE SO 19TH CENTURY
• Prior to 1898, businesses kept papers in envelopes in turn stored in
arrays of pigeonholes often lining a wall. Finding and opening
envelopes and unfolding papers was troublesome and inefficient.
• The vertical filing cabinet (more or less as in use today) was invented
by Edwin G. Seibels in 1898. Seibels reasoned that folding was not
necessary; papers could be kept in large envelopes standing on end
vertically in a drawer.
• Electronic folders are designed to mimic the separation provided by
the 1898 invention.
34. LIMITING YOUR VIEW
• Folders limit your view of information to only the way the data is
separated by the folders
• But what if you wanted to look at the data a different way?
35. HOW WE FIND STUFF
• Then: Location was everything
• Now: Search is king. Search is so much the prevalent way we find
things that we don’t even call it “searching” anymore. We call it after
a common search appliance – we “Google” things now! (Even when
we are using Bing! Sorry, MS!)
• Search gives you what you are looking for when you are looking for it
36. CONTAINERS ARE FOR LOCKING
• Use containers (like sites, libraries or folders) to create security zones.
• Use labels – tags and “metadata” to group things by what they are
and make them findable
• Use “content types” to determine what types of labels can be
applied, and how to handle the document lifecycle
37. TRAINING!
• A big change like this is an opportunity to address training gaps
• A big part of helping you to get the most out of SharePoint is teaching
you how to get the most out of SharePoint
38. MAKE USERS HAPPIER
• Easier to use
• More effective, giving you time to spend on things that matter!
39. MAKE MANAGEMENT HAPPIER
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•
•
•
Cost reductions!
Increased efficiency! (More cost reductions!)
More focus on capturing business (more profit!)
More focus on improving services (happier customers, more profit!)
40. PROPOSED VISION STATEMENT
“The Portal provides an environment where, in one organized, intuitive and searchable location
employees will find the systems, tools, information and collaboration areas that they need.
From any internet-connected computer, employees will be able to realize greater efficiency
accessing important business systems, people information, company forms, news, benefits
summaries, calendars and other company information.
The portal will provide tools for teams to collaborate and share documents, timelines, status
reports and other communication, thus providing additional benefit to our customers, and our
industry partners in a secure and efficient way.”
Stakeholders provide input at this step
41. Out of Scope
In Scope
Utilized by Business Users to develop and implement business solutions that use technology without IT’s direct involvement.
Utilized by IT to develop and implement more advanced technical solutions through a unified application delivery platform.
The primary repository for document sharing, collaboration, and communication.
The primary location for simple workflow/business process automation.
The employee Portal and communication center for internal corporate communications.
The primary project issue tracking system with the support of Project Server.
x
The repository for any XYZ documents and processes.
The platform used for customer relationship management. (Recommend OOS)
The learning management system used by our organization. (Recommend OOS)
Utilized as an asset management system.
The ticket tracking system for our operational issues.
The work order management system used by our organization.
Stakeholders provide input at this step
42. Install the Servers
Virtualized environment, can clone base OS
Dev, Test and Production environments
How do you create multiple environments with consistency?
44. User Training
Often the most overlooked requirement
for successful rollout!
Training begins as soon as the Dev
environment is stood up.
45. Open for Business
Open the 2013 site for use
Search crawls 2007 content
New home pages for each department
Links to 2007 site content until migrated
46. Content Migration
Test migration of content to Test environment
Move IT first – dog food!
Validate the migration test in Test
Use the validated migration to re-migrate to Prod.
Final validation in Production
50. Questions?
Ask now or feel free to contact me later:
@dlairman and @SPointTherapist
jim@adcock.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimadcock
http://SharePointTherapist.com
http://dlairman.wordpress.com