Sharepoint 2013 Field Guide: Advice from the Consulting Trenches

by Errin O'Connor

Covers SharePoint 2013, Office 365's SharePoint Online, and Other Office 365 Components In SharePoint 2013 Field Guide, top consultant Errin O'Connor and the team from EPC Group bring together best practices and proven strategies drawn from hundreds of successful SharePoint and Office 365 engagements. Reflecting this unsurpassed experience, they guide you through deployments of every type, including the latest considerations around private, public, and hybrid cloud implementations, from ECM to business intelligence (BI), as well as custom development and identity management. O'Connor reveals how world-class consultants approach, plan, implement, and deploy SharePoint 2013 and Office 365's SharePoint Online to maximize both short- and long-term value. He covers every phase and element of the process, including initial "whiteboarding"; consideration around the existing infrastructure; IT roadmaps and the information architecture (IA); and planning for security and compliance in the new IT landscape of the hybrid cloud. SharePoint 2013 Field Guide will be invaluable for implementation team members ranging from solution architects to support professionals, CIOs to end-users. It's like having a team of senior-level SharePoint and Office 365 hybrid architectureconsultants by your side, helping you optimize your success from start to finish! Detailed Information on How to...Develop a 24-36 month roadmap reflecting initial requirements, longterm strategies, and key unknowns for organizations from 100 users to 100,000 users Establish governance that reduces risk and increases value, covering the system as well as information architecture components, security, compliance, OneDrive, SharePoint 2013, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and identity management Address unique considerations of large, global, and/or multilingual enterprises Plan for the hybrid cloud (private, public, hybrid, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) Integrate SharePoint with external data from Oracle and SQL Server to HR, ERP, or document management for business intelligence initiatives Optimize performance across multiple data centers or locations including US and EU compliance and regulatory considerations (PHI, PII, HIPAA, Safe Harbor, etc.) Plan for disaster recovery, business continuity, data replication, and archiving Enforce security via identity management and authentication Safely support mobile devices and apps, including BYOD Implement true records management (ECM/RM) to support legal/compliance requirements Efficiently build custom applications, workflows, apps and web parts Leverage Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

696 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 15, 2014

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.