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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

Chapter 7. Growing SharePoint Capacity and Meeting Staffing Resource Needs

In the previous chapters, we discussed SharePoint strategy, SharePoint projects, and governance approaches. Now imagine that you are sitting at your desk and you want to unleash SharePoint into the veins of the organization. This chapter discusses how to grow SharePoint capacity, build and acquire skills sets needed, and allow the reader to understand some of the hidden costs of a SharePoint deployment, and how to assess success after the first year of deployment.

Q: What are the minimal SharePoint deployment and technical skill set I can get away with?

A: Assuming that this is an on-premise installation, the minimal deployment would be SharePoint 2010 Foundation. It already resides on Windows 2008 servers and can be installed for no additional cost. The Content Database and all other services can reside on that one server. The caveat is future-proofing for size, traffic, and lack of features available on Standard...