Site and solution governance (SharePoint Server 2010)

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010

This section provides information about governing sites and solutions for both production and sandboxed Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environments.

Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals.

Sandboxed solutions restrict access to network and local resources to provide greater security and stability. You can use sandboxed solutions for load balancing solutions, for solutions that have not been fully tested, and for deploying user solutions in a hosted environment. Sandboxed solutions run in a separate worker thread so that they cannot access resources that belong to other solutions, and they have limited access to local and network resources.

In this section:

• Governance overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article introduces governance as an essential part of a successful SharePoint Server 2010 deployment and explains the various components of an enterprise governance plan.

• Governance features (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article reviews a set of SharePoint Server 2010 features that an organization can use to help govern an IT service, information management, and information architecture.

• Establishing and governing a SharePoint service (SharePoint Server 2010)

  Learn about key factors in governing a SharePoint service and what to include in a service-level agreement.

• Implementing and governing information architecture (SharePoint Server 2010)

  Learn how to plan an effective information architecture to ensure that your solution meets your business needs.

• Sandboxed solutions planning (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article explains how to plan to use sandboxed solutions in a SharePoint environment.

• SharePoint Development and Governance Using COBIT 4.1: A Practical Approach (book excerpt)

  These book excerpts are from "SharePoint Deployment and Governance Using COBIT® 4.1: A Practical Approach."

• SharePoint 2010 Governance Planning (white paper)

  This white paper focuses on the “front end” of the SharePoint environment – the business aspect of governance - the areas that effect business users. It uses a fictitious company to provide guidance for the necessary governance planning and implementation of SharePoint Server 2010.

• Implementing Governance in SharePoint 2010 (white paper)

  This white paper focuses on the “back end” of SharePoint governance – the technical implementation. It provides high-level guidance on the many configuration options that SharePoint Server 2010 provides to enable you to manage the environment for the benefit of all.