Saturday, 15 November 2014

SharePoint Audit:Explore the Hidden Gem

SharePoint Audit:Explore the Hidden Gem

Microsoft SharePoint, a phantom product by Microsoft, necessary for all organizations. The organization size can be classified on the basis of
1.Number of Employees Working
2.Number of SharePoint Functions They are going to use

SharePoint works on three key Pillars:
1. Information Architecture
2. Capacity Planning
3.Governance Model

So if you have already installed SharePoint in your organization and want to find whether the phantom is giving the best utilization! SharePoint Audit is Must.

"SharePoint Audit: Lets you make aware whether you are using SharePoint at fullest, what you are not using and Whether what you are using is as per best practices or not."

The Three key deliverable of SharePoint Audit are

  1. Utilization Capacity
  2. Best Practices
  3. Recommendations
to know more in details: vishalguptasharepoint@gmail.com





Sunday, 13 July 2014

SharePoint Adoption CheckList

SharePoint Adoption Checklist


Define Your Vision
• Establish the business priorities that SharePoint will address
• Determine your timeframe
• Establish metrics by which you’ll measure success
• Conduct a pilot to gather initial feedback
Identify Relevant Business Cases
• Determine the most appealing scenarios for business users
• Identify “low-hanging fruit”
• Review the list of use cases provided with this white paper to
determine which ones apply to your business
Release your SharePoint functionality in phases
• Start Small and Stay Focused
• Select a pilot group of users
Increase awareness by creating a communication plan
• Leverage Experts and Champions
• Engage Leadership by identifying executive sponsors
• Conduct town hall meetings to discuss your solution
• Create a plan for continuous communication
Support users by creating a training plan
• Establish short, just-in-time training options for users
• Ensure that your site owners are properly trained before giving them
site ownership
• Provide training to content contributors to ensure effective content
management
• Create a site owner community to enable users to help each other
Ensure ongoing success by creating a user support plan
• Establish a contact person for every page
• Establish a SharePoint Center of Excellence within your organization to
provide high-end support for users
• Survey users on a regular basis to gather feedback and establish metrics
• Ensure content gets moved from legacy platforms to SharePoint in a
planned manner
Generate excitement by creating an incentives and rewards plan
• Demonstrate with real data how features are useful
• Make it fun (buck the company culture)
• Use an online scavenger hunt as a fun way to encourage usage
• Provide recognition for content contribution

Saturday, 31 August 2013

Difference in SharePoint 2013 Editions


Difference in SharePoint 2013 Editions
Category features Foundation Server - Standard Server - Enterprise
General Access Services NO NO YES
General App Catalog (SharePoint) NO YES YES
General App Deployment: Autohosted Apps NO NO NO
General App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps NO YES YES
General App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps NO YES YES
General App Management Services NO YES YES
General BCS: Alerts for External Lists NO YES YES
General BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs) NO YES YES
General BCS: Business Data Webparts NO YES YES
General BCS: External List YES YES YES
General BCS: OData connector NO YES YES
General BCS: Profile Pages NO YES YES
General BCS: Rich Client Integration NO NO YES
General BCS: Secure Store Service YES YES YES
General BCS: Tenant-level external data log NO NO YES
General Browser-based customizations YES YES YES
General Client Object Model (OM) YES YES YES
General Client-side rendering (CSR) YES YES YES
General Custom Site Definitions NO NO YES
General Custom Site Provisioning NO NO YES
General Developer Site NO NO NO
General Forms Based Applications NO YES YES
General Forms on Spreadsheets NO YES YES
General Full-Trust Solutions YES YES YES
General InfoPath Forms Services NO NO YES
General JavaScript Object Model YES YES YES
General List and Library APIs YES YES YES
General Remote Event Receiver YES YES YES
General REST API YES YES YES
General Sandboxed Solutions YES YES YES
General SharePoint Design Manager YES YES YES
General SharePoint Designer YES YES YES
General SharePoint Store YES YES YES
General Workflow 2010 (.NET 3.5) YES YES YES
General Workflow 2010 (out of the box) NO YES YES
General Workflow 2013 NO YES YES
General Workload API: ECM APIs NO YES YES
General Workload API: Search APIs YES YES YES
General Workload API: Social APIs NO YES YES
General Active Directory Synchronization YES YES YES
General Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) YES YES YES
General Analytics Platform NO NO YES
General Claims-Based Authentication Support YES YES YES
General Configuration Wizards NO YES YES
General Deferred Site Collection upgrade YES YES YES
General Distributed Cache YES YES YES
General Host Header Site Collections YES YES YES
General Improved Permissions Management YES YES YES
General Improved Self-Service Site Creation NO NO YES
General Managed Accounts YES YES YES
General Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) YES YES YES
General OAuth NO YES YES
General Patch Management YES YES YES
General Quota Templates YES YES YES
General Read-Only Database Support YES YES YES
General Remote Blog Storage YES YES YES
General Request Management YES YES YES
General Request throttling YES YES YES
General Resource throttling YES YES YES
General Service Application Platform YES YES YES
General SharePoint Health Analyzer YES YES YES
General SharePoint Online Admin Center - - -
General Shredded Storage YES YES YES
General Site Collection Compliance Policies NO YES YES
General Site Collection Health Checks YES YES YES
General State Service YES YES YES
General Streamlined Central Administration YES YES YES
General System Status NOtifications YES YES YES
General Unattached Content Database Recovery YES YES YES
General Upgrade evaluation site collections YES YES YES
General Usage Reporting and Logging YES YES YES
General Windows PowerShell Support YES YES YES
Content Accessibility Standards Support YES YES YES
Content Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support YES YES YES
Content Auditing NO YES YES
Content Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes) NO YES YES
Content Auditing of View Events NO YES YES
Content Content Organizer NO YES YES
Content Design Manager YES YES YES
Content Document Sets NO YES YES
Content Document Translation in Word Web App YES1 YES1 YES1
Content eDiscovery NO NO YES
Content External Sharing: External Access NO NO NO
Content External Sharing: Guest Link NO NO NO
Content Folder Sync NO YES YES
Content Information Rights Management (IRM) NO YES YES
Content In-Place Hold YES YES YES
Content Managed Metadata Service NO YES YES
Content Metadata-driven Navigation NO YES YES
Content Multi-stage Disposition NO YES YES
Content Office ProPlus (Osub) NO NO NO
Content Office Web Apps (edit) YES1 YES1 YES1
Content Office Web Apps (view) YES1 YES1 YES1
Content Office Web Apps Server integration YES YES YES
Content PowerPoint Automation Services NO YES YES
Content Preservation hold library NO NO YES
Content Quick Edit YES YES YES
Content Related Items YES YES YES
Content Rich Media Management NO YES YES
Content Shared Content Types NO YES YES
Content SharePoint Translation Services YES YES YES
Content Site mailbox NO YES2 YES2
Content Unique Document IDs NO YES YES
Content Video Search NO NO YES
Content WCM: Analytics NO YES YES
Content WCM: Catalog NO NO YES
Content WCM: Cross-site publishing NO NO YES
Content WCM: Designer Tools NO YES YES
Content WCM: Faceted navigation NO NO YES
Content WCM: Image Renditions NO NO YES
Content WCM: Mobile and Device Rendering NO YES YES
Content WCM: Multiple Domains NO NO YES
Content WCM: OOTB Recommendations Webparts NO YES YES
Content WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) NO YES YES
Content WCM: Topic Pages NO NO YES
Content Word Automation Services NO YES YES
BI Business Intelligence Center NO NO YES
BI Calculated Measures and Members NO NO YES
BI Data Connection Library NO NO YES
BI Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts NO NO YES
BI Excel Services NO NO YES
BI Field list and Field Support NO NO YES
BI Filter Enhancements NO NO YES
BI Filter Search NO NO YES
BI PerformancePoint Services NO NO YES
BI PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration NO NO YES
BI Power View NO NO YES
BI PowerPivot NO NO YES
BI Quick Explore NO NO YES
BI Scorecards & Dashboards NO NO YES
BI SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode NO NO YES
BI SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode NO NO YES
BI Timeline Slicer NO NO YES
BI Visio Services NO NO YES
Search Advanced Content Processing YES YES YES
Search Content Search Web Part NO NO YES
Search Continuous crawl YES YES YES
Search Custom entity extraction NO NO YES
Search Deep links NO YES YES
Search Event-based relevancy NO YES YES
Search Expertise Search YES YES YES
Search Extensible content processing NO NO YES
Search Graphical refiners NO YES YES
Search Hybrid search YES YES YES
Search Managed navigation NO YES YES
Search On-premises search index - - -
Search Phonetic name matching YES YES YES
Search Query rules—Add promoted results NO YES YES
Search Query rules—advanced actions NO NO YES
Search Query spelling correction YES YES YES
Search Query suggestions NO YES YES
Search Query throttling NO YES YES
Search Quick preview YES YES YES
Search Recommendations NO YES YES
Search Refiners YES YES YES
Search RESTful Query API/Query OM YES YES YES
Search Result sources YES YES YES
Search Search connector framework NO NO NO
Search Search results sorting YES YES YES
Search Search vertical: “Conversations” NO YES YES
Search Search vertical: “People” NO YES YES
Search Search vertical: “Video” NO NO YES
Search Tunable Relevancy NO NO NO
Sites Change the look YES YES YES
Sites Connections to Microsoft Office Clients YES YES YES
Sites Cross Browser Support YES YES YES
Sites Custom Managed Paths YES YES YES
Sites Governance YES YES YES
Sites Large List Scalability and Management YES YES YES
Sites Mobile Connectivity YES YES YES
Sites Multi-Lingual User Interface YES YES YES
Sites My Tasks YES YES YES
Sites OOTB Web Parts YES YES YES
Sites Permissions Management YES YES YES
Sites Project functionality for team sites YES YES YES
Sites Project site template YES YES YES
Sites Project Summary web part YES YES YES
Sites Project workspace YES YES YES
Sites Public Website (SPO) - - -
Sites SharePoint Lists YES YES YES
Sites SharePoint Ribbon YES YES YES
Sites Task list YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: Drag & Drop YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: NOtebook YES YES YES
Sites Team Site: Simplified Access YES YES YES
Sites Templates YES YES YES
Sites Themes YES YES YES
Sites Work Management Service YES YES YES
Sites Usage Analytics YES YES YES
Social Ask Me About NO YES YES
Social Blogs YES YES YES
Social Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation NO YES YES
Social Community YES YES YES
Social Company Feed YES YES YES
Social Follow NO YES YES
Social Microblogging NO YES YES
Social Newsfeed NO YES YES
Social One Click Sharing NO YES YES
Social People, Sites, Document Recommendations NO YES YES
Social Personal Site NO YES YES
Social Photos and Presence YES YES YES
Social Profile NO YES YES
Social Ratings NO YES YES
Social Site Feed YES YES YES
Social Skydrive Pro NO YES YES
Social Tag profiles NO YES YES
Social Tasks integrated with Outlook NO YES NO
Social Trending Tags NO YES YES
Social Wikis NO YES YES
Add-Ons Additional Storage - - -
Add-Ons App Hosting: Base - - -
Add-Ons App Hosting: Per User - - -
Add-Ons Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services - - -
Add-Ons Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code in Azure LWR - - -
Add-Ons Duet Online - - -