This is the bare bones necessities you need to cover for a successful SharePoint implementation. It isn't pretty or well explained, but will get you started in the right direction.
Item/List/Site Recovery – Who is responsible? How will you back them up? Does it work?
Versioning – How many? At least one for backup reasons? Who manages this?
Monitoring – You are monitoring your farm, Web apps, app pools, databases, drives, NICs, zones, firewalls, etc – right?
Reporting – How are you doing reporting on things like performance and security?
Developer Customization – How do you control developer customizations and custom code? Solutions? Features? Both? Ad-hoc? (I hope not! the latter!)
SharePoint Designer Customization – Does everyone have SPD? Is that a good think/
Windows Server configuration management – Who controls the configuration and change management of the server platforms themselves/
Server farm configuration management – How many farm admins do you have? Do you trust them? Are they trained?
SQL Server - Are you monitoring uptime and performance? Are you using multiple databases where it makes sense? What types of drives do they live on? Are you mirrored/clustered? How do you test patches? What’s autogrow set to for logs and data?
Themes – Do you control how many / what themes are available in the sites/
Site Quotas – Do you control how large site collections are? This is the only way to control the 2nd stage of the Recycle Bin, right?
Navigation consistency – Do you need a consistent navigation story for both global and current? How will you accomplish this consistency?
Recycle Bin settings – How large is your 1st stage? Who sees it? How large is the 2nd stage? Who manages and restores from the 2nd stage?
Upload size – What’s your maximum upload size? Why? Will IIS timeout over WANs or sluggish VPNs?
Site and Site Collection Creation – Who creates Site Collections? Sites? Who can delete them? Manage them? Authorize access?
How will your users authenticate? Multiple AuthN sources? How will you accomplish that?
Security - Farm level – Who’s in command? How are you auditing that?
Security - Site Collection Level – Who controls security for site collections? How are you sure/
Authorization Mechanism/training – Do people know how to authorize access within your organization. Are they following the proper procedures, like need-to-know or FOUO?
Search - Farm/SSP Level config and change management – Who Controls Search management? Don’t get your search management mangled
Search - Site Collection config and change mgmt. – Who is controlling the end user search experience? Keywords, best bets, Google ads, scopes, etc..
Document Creation/Publish/Mgmt, etc – How do you control findability keywords? Content types? Consistent metadata? Publication? Approval?
Metadata management (taxonomy) – What’s your taxonomy look like?
Content Types – Are your content types truly farm unique? Who defines and manages these?
Information Management Policies – Who controls and audits your IM Policies?
IIS Config mgmt. – Are you wathing your IIS configuration management/change management? Are you server admins messing with your IIS configs? Are you backing these up independently?
Item/List/Site Recovery – Who is responsible? How will you back them up? Does it work?
Versioning – How many? At least one for backup reasons? Who manages this?
Monitoring – You are monitoring your farm, Web apps, app pools, databases, drives, NICs, zones, firewalls, etc – right?
Reporting – How are you doing reporting on things like performance and security?
Developer Customization – How do you control developer customizations and custom code? Solutions? Features? Both? Ad-hoc? (I hope not! the latter!)
SharePoint Designer Customization – Does everyone have SPD? Is that a good think/
Windows Server configuration management – Who controls the configuration and change management of the server platforms themselves/
Server farm configuration management – How many farm admins do you have? Do you trust them? Are they trained?
SQL Server - Are you monitoring uptime and performance? Are you using multiple databases where it makes sense? What types of drives do they live on? Are you mirrored/clustered? How do you test patches? What’s autogrow set to for logs and data?
Themes – Do you control how many / what themes are available in the sites/
Site Quotas – Do you control how large site collections are? This is the only way to control the 2nd stage of the Recycle Bin, right?
Navigation consistency – Do you need a consistent navigation story for both global and current? How will you accomplish this consistency?
Recycle Bin settings – How large is your 1st stage? Who sees it? How large is the 2nd stage? Who manages and restores from the 2nd stage?
Upload size – What’s your maximum upload size? Why? Will IIS timeout over WANs or sluggish VPNs?
Site and Site Collection Creation – Who creates Site Collections? Sites? Who can delete them? Manage them? Authorize access?
How will your users authenticate? Multiple AuthN sources? How will you accomplish that?
Security - Farm level – Who’s in command? How are you auditing that?
Security - Site Collection Level – Who controls security for site collections? How are you sure/
Authorization Mechanism/training – Do people know how to authorize access within your organization. Are they following the proper procedures, like need-to-know or FOUO?
Search - Farm/SSP Level config and change management – Who Controls Search management? Don’t get your search management mangled
Search - Site Collection config and change mgmt. – Who is controlling the end user search experience? Keywords, best bets, Google ads, scopes, etc..
Document Creation/Publish/Mgmt, etc – How do you control findability keywords? Content types? Consistent metadata? Publication? Approval?
Metadata management (taxonomy) – What’s your taxonomy look like?
Content Types – Are your content types truly farm unique? Who defines and manages these?
Information Management Policies – Who controls and audits your IM Policies?
IIS Config mgmt. – Are you wathing your IIS configuration management/change management? Are you server admins messing with your IIS configs? Are you backing these up independently?
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