Finalizing loose ends

Did we forget something? I am sure we did. That's why I created this chapter to make sure we go back and retrace our steps and find things that may not have been communicated or documented. We want to make sure at this point that we have accounted for everything in our old environment, which includes services and content. This includes everything we noted in our planning and assessments. The last thing you want is a failed SharePoint farm implementation.

These next two chapters were created to finalize the configuration and make sure that we check all the loose ends to finalize our farm. There are a couple of areas that were left out of our service configuration chapter that we need to expand on, as well as web applications, site collections, and general settings for those areas, which we will get into in this chapter.

Here, as a precaution, it's a good idea to go back and assess your users and departments to make sure you have accounted for all...