{"id":104,"date":"2008-10-27T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T05:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T05:57:42","slug":"name-your-sharepoint-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2008\/name-your-sharepoint-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Your SharePoint Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It used to drive me nuts when people came up with goofy names for their portals – usually because they could come up with some real doozies,\u00a0spawn of the .com boom and generally more clever than they needed to be.\u00a0 But at the end of the day, you need to name your sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We had a guest speaker at the MNSPUG a few months back that was describing his company’s uses of SharePoint.\u00a0 During that presentation, he made a statement that stuck with me about naming his site – actually about naming the sites and solutions that were built on the SharePoint platform.\u00a0 I can’t quote him exactly, but he essentially stressed the importance of coming up with names rather than calling things ‘SharePoint’.\u00a0 There are a couple of advantages to this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. If you have more than one instance or solution, calling everything ‘SharePoint’ can be confusing.\u00a0 Naming each solution\u00a0reduces confusion.\u00a0 When talking about ‘SharePoint’, let it be about the platform itself.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. SharePoint is a\u00a0product and a platform.\u00a0\u00a0In the unfortunate instance where something isn’t\u00a0working correctly and users are becoming disenchanted with\u00a0a solution – its better that they are frustrated with a specific solution rather than the entire platform.\u00a0 Let people say there’s something wrong with ‘UberSource’ instead of saying there’s something wrong with SharePoint.\u00a0 SharePoint is so much bigger than a single implementation – don’t get your users down on it unnecessarily.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It seems like a simple and somewhat silly thing to call out, but the bottom line is to\u00a0name your SharePoint instances \/ portals \/ solutions\u00a0– whatever.\u00a0 It’ll make your life easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Carry on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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