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SharePoint Compliance: Securing the Content & Infrastructure

Axceler and HiSoftware invite you to an upcoming webinar that will focus on the issues surrounding SharePoint security, compliance, and governance.

Because SharePoint makes it is so easy to build new sites, SharePoint systems can grow quickly and become unwieldy. Additionally, the creation and storage of content in SharePoint introduces risk that information may be accessed by or shared with individuals outside of the regulatory and corporate policies designed to protect sensitive information.

If administered wisely, SharePoint can be a tremendously powerful resource. And that is why a SharePoint governance plan—and the tools to manage and enforce it—are essential.

Join us on this webinar to find out how you can:

  • Scan SharePoint content to analyze risk and automatically classify and protect this information
  • Implement item-level security - restrict, encrypt, track and prevent
  • Prevent sensitive content from leaving SharePoint through email, print or "save as"
  • Cleanup and manage SharePoint permissions
  • Audit SharePoint storage and activity
  • Monitor SharePoint permissions
  • Enforce user policies
  • And more...

We hope you can join us on this webinar to find out how Axceler’s ControlPoint and HiSoftware’s Security Sheriff SP work to keep your SharePoint environment secure.

Register now.

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time: 2:00pm (EDT), 11:00am (PDT)
Duration: 45 minutes followed by Q&A
 

 


SharePoint Migration - Achieve Success Faster with Davinci Migrator

Eager to upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 but afraid of a long process or breaking something in the move? Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 reduces risk, lowers the cost, and shortens the time necessary for SharePoint migration.

Watch this webinar to learn about the benefits of Davinci Migrator, including how to:

  • Discover problems with your SharePoint portal before you migrate
  • Build realistic schedules based on migration estimates
  • Migrate in one big wave or a series of smaller waves – depending on your schedule
  • Enable the migration of out-of-the-box and SharePoint Designer workflows, as well as custom workflows built with Nintex Workflow
  • Query your legacy portal using drag-and-drop, SQL, or a Query-by-Example interface, and create batched SharePoint migrations
  • And finish your migration before your deadlines

Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 offers comprehensive, risk-based control when moving to the latest SharePoint platform, allowing users to discover, transform, iterate, and control migration activities.

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Rebooting SharePoint Governance: 5 Pillars to Guarantee Success

‘SharePoint Governance’ means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and for the most part - they are all wrong!

This session is part of the global re-education of what ‘SharePoint Governance' REALLY is and how it is the essential element to enable your organisation to deliver business value through the SharePoint platform.

Ant Clay talks about the industry’s current myopic view on Governance, the difference between Assurance and Governance, Facilitation versus Analysis and how to align SharePoint with your businesses vision in both project delivery and on-going into the future.
Key Take-aways:

  • A Review of current SharePoint Governance “thinking” and why it is fundamentally flawed
  • The 5 Pillars of SharePoint Governance
  • Real examples of how this new approach to SharePoint Governance has benefited our customers

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SharePoint Permissions, Policies & Productivity
Get it Right with ControlPoint

Axceler invites you to view this webcast that shows you how to better manage SharePoint permissions, policies, and improve your overall SharePoint productivity. Whether you have SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010, you can benefit from watching this session where we show you how to use ControlPoint to:

  • Ease the difficulties involved with SharePoint Administration
  • Enable varied Permissions & Security actions and reporting
  • Enforce SharePoint governance automatically
  • Support a centralized or distributed model for SharePoint management
  • Boost your SharePoint’s value and productivity
  • Increase end-user adoption
  • Reduce demands on the overall SharePoint infrastructure
  • And more!

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Aligning SharePoint to Business Goals:
Don't Just Say It, Do It

It is common to hear consultants wax lyrical about how we have to align SharePoint to "business goals". While this and other popular clichés like "obtain executive support" or "obtain user buy-in" are easy to say, in practice they are much harder to do. After all, if this was not the case, then business goal alignment would not be near the top of the list for SharePoint challenges.

Deploying Microsoft SharePoint is about alignment, adaption and adoption (all that “people stuff” that geeks suck at). Current SharePoint governance documentation abounds in service delivery, but just because your system is rock solid, stable, well documented and processes defined, there is absolutely no guarantee of success. In fact, the secret sauce to a successful SharePoint project is an area that governance documentation barely touches. To find what’s in this secret sauce, come and be part of this discussion!

Rather than just tell you what is wrong with the world, in this session, Paul Culmsee and Michal Pisarek will offer practical guidance, tools and methods on how to tame this complex problem. They will demonstrate how to ensure that all aspects of SharePoint delivery clearly align to organizational aspirations, ensure all stakeholder needs are considered and at the same time, create the understanding and commitment via an inclusive, collaborative approach.

Session topics:

  • Why aligning organizational goals is hard
  • Why SharePoint belongs to a class of problems that are inherently hard to solve
  • Why users have trouble articulating what they really want
  • The reality of how we actually solve new or novel problems
  • How to avoid chasing platitudes and tap into the wisdom of crowds
  • The one best practice you need before you consider any other best practice
  • Field tests, practical tools and techniques


View this webcast now.


 

How to Develop and Enforce SharePoint Governance Policies through Services and Software

One of the keys to SharePoint's popularity is its ease of use - users can create collaborative websites in less than 5 minutes. But, because it is so easy to build new sites, SharePoint systems can grow quickly and, if not administered wisely, become unwieldy.

Organizations increasingly need SharePoint governance, especially as SharePoint becomes an enterprise collaboration platform and falls under corporate IT governance requirements. There are many parts to a SharePoint governance equation; two of the most important are the software and the services.

On this webinar you will see how Axceler’s ControlPoint governance and administration software and Jornata’s AutoPilot managed service offering work together to give SharePoint administrators a standardized governance model and maintenance plan for SharePoint deployments, including proactive support for farms, information management and application policies.

View this webinar to learn:

  • Best practices for establishing a SharePoint governance model including policies and farm-wide application control
  • How to establish a standardized governance model & maintenance plan for SharePoint deployments
  • How to enforce governance policies automatically with ControlPoint
  • How to identify SharePoint governance violations
  • How to manage SharePoint security
  • And more


Register and view now.



How to Improve Your SharePoint Governance with Microsoft's Chris Bortlik

Join Microsoft SharePoint Technology Specialist Chris Bortlik to learn how to take your SharePoint governance to the next level.

Watch this webcast and learn:

  • Why governance is important
  • Why you need a solid SharePoint information architecture 
  • Why it’s important to consider inheritance 
  • How to use content types 
  • How retention policies can be applied
  • The concepts around SharePoint security management (Activity Directory groups, SharePoint groups)
  •  How Microsoft enables self-service and information classification for collaboration sites 

You’ll also see a short demonstration of the “Best SharePoint Product” of 2011 and the Community Choice award-winner, Axceler ControlPoint.  ControlPoint can help you enforce your SharePoint governance policies and gives you the ability to explore, protect, analyze and control SharePoint.

View this webcast now.