Scott Jamison

Thanks to everyone who attended the SharePoint 2010 Executive Briefing at the Microsoft offices yesterday! You can find the slides on the Jornata website.

I’ve got a new article up on InformIT that discusses Tagging in SharePoint 2010. Be sure to check it out!

Special thanks to Susan Hanley for her wonderful insight that led to a full chapter on this topic in our latest book.

Registration is now open for the upcoming SharePoint Saturday event in Boston on September 25, 2010. I’ve been selected to speak along with some other fantastic speakers (the full list of sessions is available here). Most of the Jornata crew will be on-hand, and we’ll be giving away copies of Essential SharePoint 2010, among other fun prizes.

Be sure to attend…we’ll see you then!

I’ve been speaking to lots of customers who are in the process of implementing SharePoint 2010, along with SharePoint product team members from Microsoft, and one of the common themes?  Essential SharePoint 2010 is a “must-have book” for SharePoint 2010!  It’s great to hear the positive feedback and I can’t thank our fabulous writing team enough! I’m quite pleased with the final product, and I hope you are too!

If you have any questions or feedback on the book, feel free to contact me directly at scott<dot>jamison<at>jornata<dot>com.

Microsoft has published two new SharePoint 2010 whitepapers co-authored by yours truly. Check them out!

SharePoint 2010: Planning and Deploying User Profiles

SharePoint 2010: Governance Planning

And don’t forget the new SharePoint 2010 book…copies are heading to bookstores as we speak!

Yesterday I was presenting the Governance topic at the first official SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Certified Master rotation. Governance is an important part of any SharePoint deployment, and covers key topics like roles & responsibilities, processes, and policies. One of the discussions that ensued during class was how enforcement of governance policies in a SharePoint deployment can be broken down into the following:

1. Things that users can and cannot do. These items are enforced via technology. For example, a company might impose a site collection quota or file upload restriction.
2. Things that users may and may not do. These items are described within processes & policy. For example, a company might have a policy that customer information must not be stored within a SharePoint list unless it’s secured properly.
3. Things that users should and should not do. These items are described within a set of guidance. For example, a company might recommend that documents should be shared via document workspaces and not emailed as attachments.

If you’re using SharePoint and haven’t given much thought to these kinds of policy statements and how they are enforced, now’s a good time to start.

Now that SharePoint 2010 has officially been launched, I thought I’d update everyone on some of the things we’ve been working on at Jornata.  It’s been a fantastic year so far…we’ve been extremely busy working on some fantastic projects!

In just the past four months, we’ve:

• consulted on a half-dozen large-scale production launches of SharePoint 2010
• finished writing a book on SharePoint 2010
• written official courseware for Microsoft on SharePoint 2010
• hired some of the most impressive SharePoint consultants around

In addition, I’ll be out and about talking about SharePoint 2010 at some upcoming conferences. Two of them include:

• SPTechCon Boston 2010
• SharePoint Conference 2011

I hope to see you there!

The MITRE corporation recently released its yearly list of the top 25 most widespread and critical programming errors.  Many of these are present in SharePoint-targeted solutions. As such, how can you prevent these in your environment?

Here’s a list of things you should do:

• Be vigilant when it comes to ISV solutions for SharePoint. Teach your business users to go with trusted names and to get your help validating software choices whenever possible. This will become more of an issue with sandboxed solutions, which allow a site collection administrator to upload compiled code directly to the server.
• If you develop your own code in-house, make sure you have a thorough code review process in place. Don’t rush custom code out the door to meet a business need before the code is ready. For example, this checklist is a bare minimum for checking web part quality.
• When hiring consulting companies to build solutions for you, ask them about their code validation and quality assurance process. In the rush to find SharePoint talent, many organizations are cutting corners on things like deep expertise and quality control.

I’m heading out to San Fran to speak at this year’s SPTechCon. It should be a fantastic event…check out the speaker list!

I’ll be giving two talks:

• If you build it, they will come: Driving SharePoint End-user adoption
• Introduction to Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010

I hope to see you there!

Thanks to those of you who attended my session at the Best of SharePoint event!  It was a fantastic event led by Microsoft’s Chris Bortlik.

You can find my slides on Social Computing in SharePoint 2010 (among others) on the Jornata website.