SharePoint 2013 Field Guide: Advice from the Consulting Trenches

by Errin O'Connor

Get a team of senior-level SharePoint consultants by your side, helping you optimize your success throughout your entire SharePoint 2013 initiative!

SharePoint 2013: Advice From the Trenches reveals how world-class SharePoint consultants approach, plan, implement, and deploy SharePoint 2013 to ensure its long-term success. This real-world guide covers every phase and element of the process, including:

-Initial “whiteboarding” of potential overall solutions
-Consideration of existing infrastructure, including older versions of SharePoint
-Developing roadmaps, architectures, and detailed, step-by-step implementation plans
-Successfully executing your SharePoint implementation plan, testing, and “going live”

Drawing on his personal experience leading nearly 200 SharePoint deployments, Errin O’Connor brings together:

- Powerful new best practices for SharePoint 2013 planning, implementation, and deployment Expert methodologies for providing content and records management through SharePoint 2013

- New ways to plan for and deliver support for mobile devices (“BYOD”)

- Insights for developing new SharePoint apps, either for your own environment or for sale

Using Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013, it’s possible to “change the game,” driving breakthrough improvements in everything from business agility to customer service to compliance. This guide will help you identify your best opportunities to leverage SharePoint 2013 – and then transform its potential into reality!

815 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2013

About the author

Errin is the Founder and Chief Architect for EPC Group and the author of four Microsoft Press books covering Power BI, SharePoint and Office 365. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country and around the globe.

Errin's latest book "Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step" by Microsoft Press guides you through creating world-class business analysis dashboards that integrate today's most widely-used data sources, using any of Microsoft's Power BI platforms, including the new Power BI Premium.

Errin is also the author of "SharePoint 2013 Field Guide: Advice from the Consulting Trenches" (Published in 2013) which covers best practices and proven strategies around the overall implementation, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online roadmap development, compliance (PHI, PII, HIPAA), security, enterprise content management (ECM) and records management (RM) methodologies as well as mobility planning in BYOD and MDM.

Errin is also the author of "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010: Inside Out" (Published in 2010) by Microsoft Press as well as "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Inside Out" (Published in 2007) by Microsoft Press.

For over 20 years, Errin has assisted in managing EPC Group's corporate strategy and architects the proven methodologies around business intelligence, collaboration, enterprise content management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors.

EPC Group has completed more than 5000+ Power BI, SharePoint, Office 365 and Microsoft stack-related implementations including efforts around Business Intelligence (BI), custom application development, hybrid cloud strategy, Windows Azure, Office 365, SQL Server, Microsoft Intune, System Center, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Microsoft Project Server.

Errin is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Power BI and SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada.

To learn more about EPC Group's consulting, architectural, or custom development services, visit www.epcgroup.net or contact EPC Group at (888) 381-9725 or email EPC Group at contact@epcgroup.net.

Reviews

[Scott St. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome reference for real-world advice for IT Professionals implementing SharePoint 2013 or an Office 365 project. The recommendations are helpful as they cover points of the "how", "why", and "this is what you should plan for" which have helped in my long-term scalability planning.

The information on the hybrid configurations for search and how to structure an information architecture for SharePoint sites as well as for content types for our records management initiative were also very helpful as it saved us a ton of time and helped us avoid several "pitfalls" that we were headed for but this book has been a invaluable resource.

A must read for IT Pros, SharePoint Experts\Admins and Developers looking at SharePoint 2013 development or Office 365 development around areas like the Office 365 API tools and for business intelligence around Power BI as well as hooking into on-prem data from the cloud securely. Its defeintily an entirely different approach than the other SharePoint and Office 365 books I have read as its set from a point of view around "making the right roadmap" decision for IT and matching that with my users business requirements or "use cases" they come to me with all of the time.