SharePoint Success: Governance, Administration, and Adoption

(each session is about 75 minutes long)

Get Real with Governance: Selling, Creating, Designing & Implementing SharePoint Governance
Most SharePoint governance documentation focuses on the "soft sides" of governance—the people and the process of governing SharePoint. In this session, you'll learn how to tackle the harder sides of governance:

• "selling" the importance of governance to your organization
• ensuring that you've "covered your bases"
• aligning your SharePoint design with your governance model

Take away prescriptive guidance for how to

The SharePoint Administrators' Missing Manual
While most SharePoint administrative tasks are well documented, there remain too many that are tricky, misunderstood, or under-documented. In this rapid-fire session, Dan will shed light on SharePoint

• security
• backup and restore
• site provisioning
• alerts & email
• user and group management

Dan will also cover best practices for SharePoint architecture and implementation, and help you to avoid common mistakes and performance bottlenecks.

Big Wins with Business Intelligence Lite: High Value, Low Effort Solutions
Too often, business intelligence (BI) is seen as a giant, expensive undertaking, but it doesn't have to be! Dan Holme has guided his clients to high-value solutions through "BI Lite"—solutions that use out-of-the-box functionality of Windows SharePoint Server lists and Office client applications to move critical business data from old-school Excel and Access files to online, multi-user solutions. In this session, Dan will share several approaches that you can use to make the most of SharePoint as a database and application platform without ever cracking open Visual Studio, and before the BDC. Through practical, real world examples you'll be inspired to identify and solve business problems and to deliver "big wins" that drive success and adoption of SharePoint and Office in your enterprise. You'll learn to:

• move important, shared, or multi-user databases from their 20th century home in Excel worksheets and Access databases to SharePoint
• create rich, code-free "business intelligence lite" SharePoint solutions that leverage Excel as an analysis and presentation tool
• develop sophisticated, intelligent relational database applications with gorgeous forms and reports using Access as a SharePoint front-end.

Archives for this eLearning are available until September 24, 2010.