Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

This page contains tools and resources to help business decision makers and IT professionals govern their SharePoint Products and Technologies environment. Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place in an enterprise to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint. By using the governance techniques and best practices available from this page, an enterprise can align its policies for using SharePoint with its culture and goals while still enabling teams and individuals to effectively collaborate and share information.

Featured Video

Video: SharePoint Governance
In this short video presentation, Microsoft technology specialist Mike Gannotti interviews Jeff Collins of Xcelligent about their solution for enterprise governance of SharePoint.

Featured Content

SharePoint Collaboration Service Governance Plan
This SharePoint governance plan is a guideline outlining the administration, maintenance, and support of Fabrikam’s planned SharePoint deployment.

SharePoint Pod Show
See governance podcasts with Robert Bogue, plus podcasts about other SharePoint topics.

SharePoint paradox meets SharePoint governance
Read this article by Julian Warne to learn about the business value of implementing SharePoint governance in your organization.

SharePoint governance: Considerations for a successful deployment
Scott Jamison explains how effective governance (which includes defining roles and responsibilities, policies, process, and technology) can help you to ensure the overall long-term success of your SharePoint environment.

Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations
Use this sample code acceptance checklist as a starting point for your own checklist to help verify the quality of solutions that are submitted for deployment, so that the solutions deployed provide the intended benefits without exposing the enterprise to unnecessary risk.

Plan governance for your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment
Learn what governance is, how to establish and govern a SharePoint service, how to govern your enterprise's information architecture, and which SharePoint features can help you govern your SharePoint deployment.

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Governance and Windows SharePoint Services

Developer Content on Governance

Governance Webcasts

Keeping control of your SharePoint sites with IT governance: Learn about the capabilities and techniques available in SharePoint Server 2007 that help contribute to a well-governed deployment.
Compliance and records management: Learn about collaborative and records spaces, how they function, what hold orders are, and how records managers can put a hold on records.