Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Enterprise Deployments of SharePoint

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This session covers the lessons learnt by early enterprise deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Focusing on SharePoint 2010 specifics, the session will detail these lessons along with best practices and approaches you can use to accelerate your deployments and avoid common pitfalls of large deployments, in terms of the server estate size, number of users and size of corpus.

This session is presented by Spencer Harbar.

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web-based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.

Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server-based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs. Product expertise includes SharePoint technologies, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability. Spencer is one of 22 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM.