Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

Change Management

As mentioned in Chapter 9, the management of change is crucial to a stable SharePoint system. But the worst practices around change management occur because initially it seems you can simply make changes to SharePoint without needing a proper process. However, that is only because the majority of SharePoint’s functionality is supposed to be user-driven and can be changed through the web UI. Also, it initially contains very little production data that users depend on to do their jobs. As SharePoint becomes more adopted and integrated into the business’s daily functioning, it becomes more essential to manage changes to it properly. It is likely that more customizations have crept in, and these require careful testing before they ...