Summary

Going live with your new farm takes a lot of planning and attention to detail. As you have seen in this chapter, there were lots of references to prior chapters to make you aware of some of the things you may have missed. A lot of the information in this chapter was mentioned way back at the beginning, but if you still didn't take those areas of concern into consideration, you can see how they can come back to haunt you right before deployment. This happens a lot, and if you did run into this issue, you are one of many.

As stated, planning and implementing a SharePoint environment takes patience, organization, teamwork, and cross-team support. Even the best technically sound SharePoint admin will miss things, and this could be due to not being organized or just not having the patience to document the environment. These, as well as other errors, come into play when depending on one person to do all the work. In this type of implementation, do not let one person do this...