Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Inside Out

Site Governance Best Practices

Site governance is a critical step in ensuring the success of your WSS 3.0 deployment. From an information management perspective, WSS 3.0 is extremely powerful and robust. When you add in Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007, and the possibilities of customization in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you have a huge amount of territory to monitor and properly govern within the organization.

As we have discussed in the past few chapters, the collaboration and sharing aspect of SharePoint is one of its best features because it can get a large number of users within the organization involved and collaborating in many different ways. This feature needs to be controlled in a way that does not discourage the user ...