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About SharePoint Governance


What is SharePoint Governance?

'SharePoint Governance' is a guideline on how SharePoint will be used within your organization. It is a set of all the rules and procedures as you will apply them to SharePoint.

Proper Sharepoint governance assigns responsibilities and access levels to various members of your organization to ensure SharePoint runs smoothly.

In short, SharePoint governance determines how SharePoint will run, who will do it and what equipment will be used.

Why is a SharePoint Governance Plan needed?

SharePoint's power and ease of use has made it one of the hottest selling pieces of software to hit the market. This success has lead Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to talk about SharePoint as the company's next big operating system.

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