SharePoint: Don’t Upgrade to SharePoint 2010!

 

Don’t upgrade to SharePoint 2010!

   There, I said it.

        Don’t do it.
            Just say no.
                 Put the DVD down and just walk away!

 

Unless when you rolled out 2007….

you really planned ahead,
created the ultimate governance plan document,
enforced that plan,
planned a farm with scalability and redundancy  in mind,
designed your taxonomy,
properly trained your users,
created and routinely executed an audit plan, 
and have a well documented and tested disaster recovery plan,

then you will just be creating the same mess again.

 

Do it right this time!  And then migrate only the business appropriate content into a clean, safe, secure, reliable and useable system.

You have probably learned a lot about SharePoint 2007 and probably learned a lot about how NOT to install it, release it to the corporation, train users and organize sites and data. You most likely now an expert on what NOT to do.

Now go do your homework. You have the time. It’s worth every minute. Go research “governance”, “best practices” and other people’s horror stories. Get your governance team trained on governance and a project methodology. Get your plan together, carefully implement it and enjoy!

 

 

 

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Cincinnati SharePoint User Group Meeting (November 2009)

We have a new URL! http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org
(this still works:  http://cincyspug.securespsites.com )

 

6:00 PM 11/5/09 at MAX Technical Training

Topic: SharePoint 2010 (what else could it be, just after the big announcements!)

 

We have door prizes!  We have a number of SharePoint books and other goodies to give away!
We will also have some discount codes just for people who attend from several major book publishers.

SharePoint: SharePoint 2010 Posters (Technical diagrams) Available

14 free posters for SharePoint 14!  34-by-44-inch posters.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx

 

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.

Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.

Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.

Hosting Environments in SharePoint 2010 Products
Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.

Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products
Compares and contrasts the search technologies that work with SharePoint Products 2010:SharePoint Foundation 2010,Search Server 2010 Express,Search Server 2010,SharePoint Server 2010,FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Walks through primary architecture design decisions for search environments.

Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Details the physical and logical architecture components that make up a search system and illustrates common search architectures.

Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Walks through the initial design steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search architecture.

Business Connectivity Services Model
This model poster describes the architecture of Microsoft Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Server 2010 and provides information about how to create solutions that are based on the service.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning
This model covers planning for an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches
This model helps you understand the in-place, database attach, and hybrid approaches to upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process
This model explains the methodology for testing the upgrade process before upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade
This model covers upgrading services from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

Choose a tool for business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010
Discusses the tools available for business intelligence

SharePoint: Setting a People Picker field using the API

 

Funny how the obvious does not always work… For example, you want to create a new task in code and assign it to some one. You might try to set the Assigned To field to the user's name:

      SPItem itm6 = lst.Items.Add();
      itm6["Title"] = "test2";
      itm6["Assigned To"] = @"MAXSP2007\samc";               //fails!
      itm6.Update();

“Assigned To” is a “People Picker” field and only accepts data in certain ways, any but the obvious. If you read this field you will see a value like:  “8#;MAXSP2007\samc”, and using that value will work…

What the "People Picker” field wants is the ID of the user, the “8”.  The rest appears to be ignored. So, here’s several ways to get there:

      itm1["Assigned To"] = web.AllUsers[@"MAXSP2007\samc"];  //works
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      itm2["Assigned To"] = 8;                                //works
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      itm3["Assigned To"] = web.AllUsers[@"MAXSP2007\samc"];  //works
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      SPMember member = web.AllUsers[@"MAXSP2007\samc"];
      itm4["Assigned To"] = member.ID;                        //works
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      SPMember member = web.AllUsers[@"MAXSP2007\samc"]; 
      itm5["Assigned To"] = member;                           //works

 

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