SharePoint Worst Practices: Anatomy of a Failed Deployment

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

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

3. #Fail Quotes • 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

4. I don’t need the community to succeed…

7. 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.”

8. #SP2010 Deployment Gotchas! • 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!

9. The Story of the Vasa the Greatest Military Ship

10. Initially declared sank due to "imprudence and negligence“ • It was TOP HEAVY!

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

12. SharePoint is Plastic. What is your Creation?

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

14. We don’t need training

15. Two Very Different Models for Hosting SharePoint as an Application SharePoint as a Platform Easy to Move to Cloud On Premise – High Business Value

16. Let me optimize the SharePoint Databases

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

18. SharePoint Life Cycle Code Data

19. One Site Collection Can Fit Everything

20. The SharePoint Pyramid 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

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

22. SharePoint’s Social Features will waste people’s Time

23. Social Computing in SharePoint 2010 Makes Sense

24. Forced orTrying to beThe One ManBand

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

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

28. What Service Applications will you use?

30. Joel’s Thoughts on Service Apps

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

32. 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

33. Fail Quotes 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

34. Thanks!