Last week has been a good week for me because it has been the first full week that I’ve been exposed to SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) GTM outside of my company. There has been so many things that I have learned that I can’t even start explain. The one thing that is evident about SharePoint 2007 is that it has grown 2 to 3 times the size and it has a lot more complexity than it predecessor SharePoint 2003.
There are a lot of underlining things that are completely the same but there a lot more items that are brand new and require a lot more planning than before. A big problem that I recognized over the last 2 years is that most companies under plan there deployment of SharePoint and after a year or so it becomes unmanageable or no longer supplies a benefit because information is too hard to find through navigation and search.
For the new release Microsoft has tried to help in this situation by supplying additional planning information. Some of the information that I have found very useful are the supplemental documents for MOSS and WSS which can be found by using the first to links. These Visio documents give great examples and information that any company planning to do a MOSS or WSS deployment.
MOSS
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/49cf7edd-14ee-445b-8ab0-1d1339f2435f1033.mspx
WSS
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/bcbae7bd-656b-4003-969c-8411b81fcd771033.mspx?pf=true
Another set of great content that I have found is the worksheets that Joel posted links for on his blog. These worksheets will give you a great start on getting all the planning organized and help everyone see the big picture. These worksheets will definitely help create the road map that can be used for a successful MOSS or WSS deployment. The link to the worksheet are posted below.
Worksheets
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/386a641c-3c07-46e8-a25d-bfdcc55bfacb1033.mspx
This week and the next I’m in Seattle working with another company doing MOSS discovery and planning. I’m very excited about these 2 weeks because it is going to give more real world experience with the new versions. So far Seattle has been a little windy, wet and cold but I guess that is expected for the middle of December. I'm off to work for the day and looking forward to another adventures day.
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