Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 5 ppsx

MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-21 • Plan variations. When you plan for variations, you should start by considering the interaction between variations and other SharePoint Server 2010 features. These features include content approval, site navigation, content deployment, Web Parts, and multilingual sites. Other planning steps for using variations with SharePoint Server 2010 include determining the type of variations that you will require, specifying the source variation site and the target variation sites, deciding how sites and pages will be created on the target sites, and deciding how to schedule timer jobs for variations. Question: What is the default setting for maximum upload size? MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-22 Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure Key Planning Tasks for Digital Asset Management Key Points Planning for digital asset management includes the following major tasks: • Plan permissions and security. When you plan for permissions and security in an asset library, you must consider which permissions to grant to users and groups in your organization and whether you must define custom permission levels and groups. The standard available permission levels are as follows: • Limited Access. Users can view specific lists, document libraries, list items, folders, or documents. • Read. Users can view items on pages. • Contribute. Users can add or modify items on pages and in lists and libraries. • Design. Users can change the layout of site pages. • Full Control. Users have all permissions. • Plan storage and performance. An asset library is a specialized kind of document library; therefore, determining storage requirements for digital assets is the MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-23 same as determining storage requirements for documents. The main difference is that asset libraries contain fewer assets than document libraries, but these assets are often much larger. If you plan to use the asset library to store and serve audio and video files to users, you should enable the disk-based BLOB cache and Bit Rate Throttling options to provide better performance. • Plan metadata and search. You add metadata to help describe the type and content of a digital asset. This makes it much easier to find assets in an asset library; rich media files are not automatically searchable because they do not contain text that a search engine can index. Some metadata, such as the size and dimensions of an image, is entered automatically when you upload the asset to the asset library. You must add other metadata manually—such as a text description, copyright information, or keywords. • Plan Web Parts and Web pages. SharePoint Server 2010 has many Web Parts and field controls to take advantage of the new content types that are included as part of an asset library. When you design Web pages for sites, consider which fields you want to expose to users in Web pages and Web Parts to help users find the assets that they require. • Plan client support. You must install the latest version of Microsoft Silverlight® on all client computers that will access your Web sites if you want enterprise users to be able to take advantage of the rich media experience that SharePoint Server 2010 provides. This means that there are several things that you must consider about how and when you install Silverlight. These include deciding whether all users require access to the asset library and deciding whether the organization requires a managed deployment of the Silverlight client to desktops or users can install it themselves on an as-needed basis. Additional Reading For more information about ECM planning in SharePoint Server 2010, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=200900&clcid=0x409. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-24 Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure Key Planning Tasks for Asset Libraries Key Points Planning asset libraries for your digital asset management solution includes the following major tasks: • Identify digital asset management roles. When you plan a digital asset library, the first step is to determine the participants and stakeholders for your solution. This will help you to determine who creates digital assets in your organization, the kinds of assets that they create, who manages the assets, and who maintains the asset storage servers. • Analyze asset usage. After you determine who works with your digital assets, you must determine the kinds of assets that they work on and how they use these assets. You can then use this analysis to help you to determine other important information. This information includes how to structure the asset libraries, how many libraries you require, which content types to use for the assets, and which information management policies you should apply to the asset libraries. You must also plan for storage capacity, because most digital assets are larger than standard document files. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-25 • Plan organization of asset libraries. As you plan the asset libraries, you must make some decisions about them. These decisions include where to create them, how users must use them, how many you require, and how to organize them. • Plan content types. The content types that asset libraries include are image, audio, and video. You can either use these content types or create your own custom content types that you derive from the included content types. • Plan content governance for digital assets. You must plan the appropriate level of control that is required for each content type and storage location for digital assets. For example, you may use versioning to store successive iterations of assets in the library, or you may require users to check assets in and out before they work on assets. You may also define an approval process so that assets must be approved before they can be made available to an audience. • Plan workflows. You use workflows to perform management tasks on assets in the asset library. This means that you must consider and decide on several planning-related workflow issues. For example, you must decide whether assets have to be reviewed and approved before asset consumers can use them, who has responsibility for managing the expiration of assets, and whether you should retain or delete assets after they expire. • Plan information management policies. You must plan the information management policies for each content type that you will use in your asset library. These policies will then dictate how you audit, retain, and label assets. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-26 Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure Lesson 3 Planning Features and Policies for Content Management There are several features and policies available in SharePoint Server 2010 that enable you to host an efficient and successful content management solution, and each of these requires planning before you implement them. You must be familiar with all of the planning steps that are required to implement these features and policies in your SharePoint Server 2010 content management solution before you can design a content management plan. Objectives After completing this lesson, you will be able to: • Plan for versioning control, content approval, and check-in and check-out. • Plan for information management policies. • Plan for content types. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-27 • Plan for document sets. • Plan for document IDs. • Plan for workflows. • Plan for metadata-based routing and storage. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-28 Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure Planning for Versioning Control, Content Approval, and Check-In and Check-Out Key Points SharePoint Server 2010 provides features to help you control documents in your document libraries. The following table describes these features. Feature Description Versioning control The method by which successive iterations of a document are numbered and saved. Content approval The method by which site members with Approver permissions control the publication of content. Check-in and check-out The methods by which users can better control when a new version of a document is created and also comment on changes that they have made when they check in a document. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning Enterprise Content Management 10-29 When you plan content management policies, you must consider how you will use versioning control, content approval, and check-out and check-in features in SharePoint Server 2010 to control the versions of a document throughout its life cycle. Planning Versioning Control The default versioning control setting for a document library depends on the site collection template on which it is based. You can also configure different versioning control settings for different document libraries to suit the specific requirements of that document type. SharePoint Server 2010 has three versioning options: • No versioning. This option specifies that no previous versions of documents are saved. You typically use this option for document libraries that contain content of low importance or content that never changes. • Create major versions. This option specifies that numbered versions of documents are retained by using a simple versioning scheme such as 1, 2, 3. To control the effect on storage space, you can also specify how many previous versions to keep. You typically use this option when you do not want to differentiate between draft versions of documents and published versions. • Create major and minor (draft) versions. This option specifies that numbered versions of documents are retained by using a more complex major and minor versioning scheme such as 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, and so on. To control the effect on storage space, you can also specify how many previous major and minor versions to keep. You typically use major and minor versioning when you want to differentiate between draft content that is not yet ready for publication and published content that is ready for viewing by an audience. Note: Regardless of the versioning control that you choose, it is important to consider the effect that retaining multiple versions of the same document can have on storage space. Planning Content Approval Use content approval to control the process of making content available to an audience. You can also schedule content publishing depending on the document state. A document draft that is awaiting content approval is in the Pending state. When an approver reviews the document and approves the content, it becomes available for viewing by site users with Read permissions. A document library MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 10-30 Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure owner can enable content approval for a document library and optionally can associate a workflow with the library to run the approval process. The way in which documents are submitted for approval varies depending on the versioning settings in the document library, as previously mentioned. Planning Check-In and Check-Out You can specify that users must check documents out from a document library before they edit the documents. The key benefits of requiring check-in and check- out include gaining better control of when document versions are created and better capture of metadata. This is because an author can write comments that describe the changes that he or she has made to the document when he or she checks it in. Tip: You configure settings for the content control features that are discussed in this topic in document libraries. To share these settings across libraries in your solution, you can create document library templates that include your content control settings to ensure that newly created libraries reflect your content control decisions. Question: Which versioning option would you use if you wanted to keep previous versions, but did not need to differentiate between draft versions of documents and published versions? . PROHIBITED 10-30 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 20 10 Infrastructure owner can enable content approval for a document library and optionally can associate a workflow with the library to run the approval. Plan metadata and search. You add metadata to help describe the type and content of a digital asset. This makes it much easier to find assets in an asset library; rich media files are not automatically. the asset to the asset library. You must add other metadata manually—such as a text description, copyright information, or keywords. • Plan Web Parts and Web pages. SharePoint Server 20 10 has