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SharePoint and the Change Management Challenge. Garry Smith. Sydney Level 1, 13-15 Myrtle St North Sydney NSW 2060. Seattle 520 Pike St, Suite 1405 Seattle WA 98101. Seattle SPUG May 15 2008. Who is echoTechnology?. June 2005 - San Francisco, Seattle , Sydney
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SharePoint and the Change Management Challenge Garry Smith Sydney Level 1, 13-15 Myrtle St North Sydney NSW 2060 Seattle 520 Pike St, Suite 1405 Seattle WA 98101 Seattle SPUG May 15 2008
Who is echoTechnology? • June 2005 - San Francisco, Seattle , Sydney • Canada, Chicago, Connetticut, Maryland, California, Atlanta, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Australia We make changing SharePoint easy
Who Am I • Bad News • 18 Hours Travelfrom Sydney • New Demonstration Environment. \ New Build of echo • Not really a Community Guy or Pure IT Guy • President of a Vendor. (Technical Sales) • Good News • Microsoft Certified Trainer of Developers • Software Engineering Background • First Field Deployments • Delivering Solutions as a Systems Integrator, 15 Years • 300 Online Demonstrations to SharePoint deployments globally
Traditional Approach Dev Test Production
Challenges Features and Capabilities Control
How? Manage Migrate
Demonstration Scenarios • Deploy a new web part to all product sites in Sydney and New York • Migrate Sites, Load Content from 2003/File Shares and Apply Meta Tags • 3. Make a bunch of changes safely in Sydney and New York • Change theme and navigation in Sydney and New York • Add a new column to all Product documents Libraries in Sydney. • Add a workflow to all ingredient libraries in Sydney
What is echo? • Migrate • 2003 • Domino • Exchange • File Shares • Manage • Workflows • Features • Webparts • Any design element
IT Pro Value Proposition • Fast Safe Portal Change • Lower operational risk • Lower TCO • Dynamic pilots • Shorter design phase • Faster deployment phase • Longer portal shelf life • Higher user adoption rates
What people are saying “…the single most valuable after market tool you need to know about is echo for SharePoint... a must have for SharePoint administrators and developers."Mike Fitzmaurice Senior SharePoint Product ManagerMicrosoft echo Releases Swiss Army Knife for SharePoint CMSWire
Who is echoTechnology? We make changing SharePoint easy