Buwanang Archive: Abril 2009

Pamamahala ay isang Marketing Plan Masyadong

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Ang dahilan kung bakit gastusin namin kaya karaming oras (o dapat, gayon pa man) working out governance plans is because we want the SharePoint solution to be as effective as possible. We want good infrastructure and rules to keep it humming and safe in case of disaster. We want good security processes to both properly secure the environment but also make it reasonable to manage. We want a good information architecture that will stand the test of time, ideally managing to survive a major organizational change in the company.

To achieve that desirable objective, a governance document and plan can devolve into a bunch of “thou shall” and “thou shall not’s”, tulad ng sa:

  • Thou shall not create SharePoint security group; use AD instead.
  • Thou shall not create folders in document libraries; use content types and views instead.
  • Thou shall create all document content types based off a specific custom base type.
  • Thou shall not create an information taxonomy based off today’s company org chart.

“Thou shall” and “thou shall not” certainly have their place in the governance plan.

A more successful governance plan will also have a strong marketing angle. It should sell and justify itself to the maximum extent possible. A truly successful governance plan relies upon the voluntary cooperation of all SharePoint users. (There are fringe cases where community cooperation is not needed, such as when SharePoint is used by a very small number of tightly managed users; I’m sure you can think of others). If the user community doesn’t buy into your governance plan then it will be partially successful at best.

I use that word “buy” deliberately. The community will buy the governance plan if it’s fundamentally sound and you go to some effort to sell them on it. Selling leads to marketing and that’s why I think that a governance plan should be considered a marketing plan too. Convince your end users that they need to follow the governance plan and they will voluntarily follow it. If you can get a critical mass of people following the governance plan then the plan’s benefits follow and you’ll have a stronger environment for it.

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Solusyon: Kino-compile ang Moss Madla Walang Nagdadagdag ng Bagong Miyembro

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Ika-line: kung gusto mong gumamit ng isang profile ari-arian sa isang panuntunan para sa paglikha ng mga madla, ang ari-arian ay dapat na nakikita sa "lahat."

I was working with a co-worker yesterday and he was building out a MOSS audience based on a custom user profile property in MOSS. Sa kasong ito, ang madla na ari-arian ay pinangalanang "SITECD" at sa pamamagitan ng convention, nag-iimbak ng isang 3 character na code. Siya ay tinukoy sa madla at isang panuntunan na sinabi na kung "SITECD ay katumbas ng 'ABG'", pagkatapos ay isama na user profile sa madla.

Siya-set up ng isang solong profile ng gumagamit na may halaga at pinagsama-sama ang madla, but MOSS simply wouldn’t add that user. I noticed that the privacy setting for that profile was set to “me only” (ang pinaka-mahigpit na form) and I remembered reading somewhere that property profiles used in rules must be visible by “everyone”. He made that change and that solved the problem.

The really funny thing about this is that I “remembered” reading about this. It was nagging at me this morning for some reason and I realized that I had written a chapter in this book, Moss Ipinaliwanag: Deep Dive Isang Worker Impormasyon ni sa Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, at ako na sakop ang puntong ito sa pinakasentro kabanata sinulat ko :). I would have thought that every word I wrote in that chapter would be seared into my memory.

Matt Morse nagsusulat ito up sa magandang detalye dito at reference ko ito sa kabanata: http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/morse_matt/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=50

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Paggamit ng MSDN (at iba pang mga) Mga Forum para sa SharePoint Support

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Maaari kong isulat sa sa mahusay na haba tungkol sa MSDN forums, tuntunin ng magandang asal, convention sa pagbibigay ng, hanapin, at iba pa. I may do that, sa katunayan. I wanted to point out a small thing which may help people have a better overall experience.

I’ve lately been telling people that if you run into some kind of problem with your SharePoint environment, development project or other SharePoint related activity, post a question to the forums earlier in your action chain rather than later. I know for myself that when I have a problem, a number of potential solutions present themselves right away. I order these potential solutions in terms of likelihood, applicability and how easy they are to investigate. I go through that list and by the time I’ve gotten to #10, I’m making registry changes to a key “/foo/bar/almostThere/isThisIt/noThisIsNotIt/iCantBelieveIAmDoingThis/finallyThere!” on the advice of a blog found on page 8 of a Google search. When that doesn’t work, I finally post a question to MSDN (e.g. dito: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/threads).

I suggest that you reverse that approach. Post the forums much earlier in your investigation because:

  • It’s free to you anyway.
  • There’s no guaranteed SLA (of which I’m aware, kahit).
  • Samakatwid, it can take a long time for people to respond.
  • People often do respond eventually.
  • If you wait until 2 o 3 days after the problem first surfaced, you’re frantic for a response and forums are not a good place for emergency help (unless you’re lucky).

Kaya, talaga, it’s easy and free and you have a good shot at getting some kind of answer, but it will take a while to get that answer (muli, unless you’re lucky).

I used to think that I should hold off on looking for community help because I don’t want to waste someone’s time asking for help when I could find it out myself. Some forum moderators and active participants may feel that way, but I don’t (kahit, I don’t feel that way any more). I don’t see any downside. The worst case is that you post a question and then answer it yourself some time later, possibly “wasting” some one’s time. I don’t see a big risk in that and there’s value in the researching of questions like that in any event.

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Maliit na Paalala Tungkol Microsoft Online Services Ang mga password at Pangangasiwa

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Sinimulan ko upang gumana sa Maliit na Negosyo ng Microsoft sa Suite Produktibo Online na ilang mga buwan na nakalipas, but now I have some better reason to be using it.

Pa rin ako nagtatrabaho ang aking paraan sa paligid nito, sa gayon ay maaari ko maaaring makuha ang ilan sa mga terminolohiya mali, ngunit isa lamang mayroong dalawang pangunahing mga interface: ang administrasyon center at ang mga serbisyo sa kanilang mga sarili.

Ang sistema ay nagsasabi sa akin na ako ay nagkaroon na baguhin ang aking password, so I went ahead and did that. That allowed me to proceed and work with the services part (SharePoint, email, at live pulong). Gayunman, kapag nagpunta ako sa screen ng administrasyon, hindi ito magiging ipaalam sa akin sa pamamagitan ng pagsasabi sa akin na hindi ito naniwala ang aking password ay tama.

The behavior was a little odd. If I entered the password I *thought* it should be, it would blank out the userid and the password and tell me the password or userid was incorrect. If I entered a blatantly wrong password, Gusto ito sabihin sa akin ang parehong, ngunit panatilihin ang mga gumagamit na patlang ID buo.

Ako naglalaro sa paligid na may ito para sa isang maliit na habang at sa wakas ay tinatawag na (oo, sa Linggo umaga). Incredibly, isang kapwa, Ben, answered the phone right away. At, Hindi ko na kailangang maglagay ng credit card.

Long kuwento maikli, the administration center password uses different password rules than the services password. Admin password must contain alpha, numeric and special characters. When I changed my admin password the first time, Hindi ko sundin na panuntunan (at hindi rin ito ay bigyan ng babala sa akin!). I was able to change it to a valid administration password and got back in.

Kung nakakaranas ka ng na uri ng problema sa hinaharap, alam mo kung ano ang nagtrabaho para sa akin at sana ay ito gumagana para sa iyo.

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SharePoint bilang isang Business System Operating

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Mula pa nang Narinig ko ang isang quote, reportedly sa panahon ng Q&Ang isang session na may Steve Ballmer Marso 2007, I’ve sort of been holding my breath for something to happen. The quote was basically this: “SharePoint is an operating system for business applications.” Knowing a fair bit about SharePoint and a middling bit about operating systems, I thought it was really apt. I’m holding my breath, waiting for companies to really buy into that concept and start to build applications within the SharePoint “operating system.”

Ko na nakatuon ng maraming ng pag-iisip sa paksang ito sa taong ito (pagpunta pabalik sa aking 2009 hula) at ako pagpunta sa makipag-usap sa mga ito sa Mayo 2 SharePoint Sabado kaganapan sa Washington.

Ito ay abstract aking presentasyon ni, pinamagatang "Ang paggamit ng SharePoint Platform upang Buuin ang Vertical Application Negosyo":

"Pahalang?"" Vertical?"Ano ang mga salitang ito ibig sabihin sa isang konteksto SharePoint? SharePoint, bilang madalas naming marinig, ay isang "platform" para sa mga application na gusali. Katunayan na ito ay madalas na nawala sa amin dahil ang tinatawag na pahalang na mga tampok ng platform, tulad ng mga dokumento sa pamamahala at paghahanap, are so easy and useful in and of themselves. Gayunman, SharePoint ay kahit na mas malakas at magbabalik higit na halaga kapag ginamit upang lumikha ng vertical mga application na ginawa para sa araw na matugunan ang iyong negosyo 'sa mga kinakailangan sa araw. Session na ito ay naglalarawan kung paano mag-ipon mga tampok ng platform sa isang verticalized solusyon gamit ang isang tunay na mundo ng negosyo halimbawa - isang sales quote pamamahala proseso at customer gateway. Ang layunin ng tagapagsalita ay upang buksan ang iyong mga mata upang ang mga posibilidad ng platform SharePoint at sa pakikinabangan nito pahalang na mga tampok ng platform upang lumikha ng pinasadyang solusyon ng negosyo para sa iyong vertical samahan.

Kung subject na hindi lumutang ang iyong bangka, there are a bunch of other good topics. And DC is a great venue in and of itself to visit.

Pagpaparehistro ng bubukas ito Huwebes, 04/16. Panatilihin sa tuktok ng site at grab isang upuan bago ito ay masyadong late 🙂

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Canadian Minuto

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Oras na ito noong nakaraang linggo, Ako ay sa Montreal, attending the highly recommended SharePoint Summit 2009. I gave a 3.5 hour tutorial on installing and customizing SharePoint. It was a scary subject on many levels. I’m not really a SharePoint admin, pero alam ko sapat na upang bigyan ang isang pagtuturo sa mga paksa. (Thankfully, Geoff Schaller mula sa Software Objectives in Australia, among a few others, was in the crowd to answer some of the deeper questions [I don’t know what they put in the water down there, but we need some of it here in the U.S.]).

Pero, back to many levels of scariness… It had a lot of potential to be very boring. I actually installed WSS and then upgraded it to MOSS. In front of a room full of people. Canadian poeple. There were long 5 at 7 minute gaps where we were watching the installation process chug along. I needed to fill that time with something useful and interesting. I’m not sure I succeeded.

Sa wakas, it was loooong. Three and one half hours. That’s a long presentation. I made a little joke of it, saying “We have a long presentation ahead of us. Three and one half hours. That’s 210 minuto. And I don’t even know how many minutes that is in Canadian.”

Everyone laughed and as a result, Montreal is officially on my Good Places list 🙂

Even if they hadn’t laughed at my joke, I would love Montreal. I try very hard to be open minded and not take my cues from South Park, but I admit, to my chagrin, that I had no idea how great is the metropolis of Montreal. I can’t wait to go back in a few months, when it’s a little warmer, to visit again.

On a sort of related note, I also sat through Erik Swenson’s first public presentation entitled “IA and Branding Process: Sketches to Wireframes to Hi-Fidelity Designs.” (Erik is my EMC colleague). Check out the abstract here: http://www.sharepointsummit2009.com/conference_day2.htm. I even recorded it for for him. I tried several times for some “action shots” and zoomed in on him when he paused to drink some water. I didn’t always succeed, but I tried 🙂

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