18 Months of MOSS

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18 Months of MOSS

• A summary of SharePoint usage _at_ the Ohio Bureau
  of Workers Compensation

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Topics Areas

• BWC Background
• Our MOSS Pilot Project
• Where we are today
• BWCWeb
• BWCTeam
• BWCApps
• What happens next?
• Questions and Answers

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BWC?
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BWC SharePoint Background

• BWC Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation
• NBM project used SharePoint 2003
• Extranet implementation
• 18,000 sites
• Lots of customization
• Lessons learned
• Internal SharePoint 2003 Sites
• Byproduct of NBM project (somewhat unplanned)
• Some key departmental use
• All led to a pilot of MOSS2007

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Our Pilot Project

• 6 months (approx Jan - June 07)
• Lots of planning exercises Governance
  Framework
• Web application structure
• Site structures
• Training
• Support roles / skills
• Business need for collaboration sites
• Documentation for early adopters is scarce

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Fast forward
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Implemented Today

• BWCTeam
• (our team collaboration area team sites)
• BWCApps
• (a special application area)
• BWCWeb
• (our intranet home page news/publishing)

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But First..
BWCWeb
/ BWCApps
more controlled
BWCTeam
My Sites
less controlled
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Other FYI

• All evolved from an IT lead Grass Roots
  movement (not Enterprise Strategic)
• NO Custom Code (for a couple reasons)
• SharePoint Designer only in BWCWeb / BWCApps
• BWCTeam some required training

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BWCWeb
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BWCTeam
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BWCApps COR
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What happens next?
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Sun Shining, birds chirping .

• Get Enterprise / Customer / Strategic support
  (Strategy Team)
• Better policy publishing process
• Tools help end users with permissions
• An Information Architecture initiative
• Custom code use (but very diligently)
• Reengineering our SP2003 sites
• Continuous Search Improvements
• My Sites???
• .

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Questions and Answers
(I had to add this matched the color scheme too
well!) (if I forget, please make sure I go to the
next, final slide)
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