Introduction

Governance is the process of creating policies and rules and assigning roles and responsibilities to make a system work properly. Even if your attitude is “Good Government is Less Government,” very few of us would want to have no government. In short, governance is the difference between order and chaos.

In this book, we will explore the concept of governance as it applies to a business’s use of the SharePoint family of products. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the concepts of web sites, collaboration, and portals as they are used in SharePoint. SharePoint provides a platform for creating, storing, and retrieving information. This information is generically referred to as content and it can take many forms, such ...

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