Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

What is governance?

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 Products and Technologies. Effective governance can:

• Protect the enterprise, such as by helping to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Greatly increase the usability of a solution. For example, the governing body in an enterprise can define metadata requirements for all content that makes it easier to categorize and search for the content across the enterprise.
• Increase an organization's efficiency — for example, by requiring training as a prerequisite to becoming the administrator of a SharePoint collaboration Web site.

Featured Content

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.

Increasing SharePoint engagement
This white paper by SharePoint MVP Robert Bogue defines the problem of increasing the engagement of your enterprise’s information workers with SharePoint Server 2007, identifies typical engagement-blockers, and suggests strategies to increase engagement at the team, departmental, and enterprise levels.

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.

Webcasts about governance for SharePoint Server 2007

• 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, including managing Shared Service Providers, using the security, policy, and auditing facilities available to administrators, and controlling sites and content.
• 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.