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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Funny you should say that...


While the trends already mentioned so far in this chapter are the most prominent ones that impact SharePoint, there are a few others that are well worth mentioning. The next few trends are often discussed with very different perspectives based on experience, and while there are no clear answers, there are certainly a few important points you can make to help reduce the uncertainty you might be facing.

Q: What are the security trends?

A: One thing that SharePoint does a great job of is shining a light on all of the issues in your organization. While this can be considered a good thing, it can be very damaging if the organization isn't prepared to respond effectively.

A very common example of this is when an organization decides to index a file share and then finds a large number of documents that should be private or secured, but are actually not secured. SharePoint didn't change security, but it highlighted the existing security issue.

SharePoint permission sprawl...