Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 17. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Developing a Plan for Governance 12-21 Policies and Standards for a Governance Plan Key Points Policies define the rules for using SharePoint Server 2010 whereas standards describe the best practices for using SharePoint Server 2010. From a governance perspective statutory regulatory or organizational requirements typically drive policies. However experience of working with SharePoint Web content and Web users typically drives standards. When you create policies you expect your users to follow them to the letter. If your organization is subject to regulatory oversight you must ensure that you can enforce your policies because failing to do so may mean that the organization has become noncompliant. You typically create standards to encourage consistent working practices. You would expect your users to implement some aspects of the standards you define but equally you would not expect them to implement others that are not relevant to them or their job function. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 12-22 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure To ensure that your policies and standards are current and relevant Verify that your policies and standards for SharePoint Server 2010 are not at odds with other organization-wide policies. Publish policies and standards where your users can easily find and follow them. Regularly review and amend policies and standards to keep them correctly mapped to your changing organizational needs. The next section describes some specific examples of policies and standards that you might want to consider using in the governance plan for your organization. Example Content Policies and Standards Consider the following example content policies and standards Posting content to existing pages or sites. Your plan should include a policy or standard to cover the following Ensuring that only single copies of documents exist. Only posting content that the user owns. Maintaining a content posting cycle. Only editing documents that are in
