SharePoint Governance and SP Accelerator 2009

SharePoint Governance and SP Accelerator 2009
The SharePoint Governance Plan is a guidebook outlining the administration, maintenance and support of your SharePoint environment. It identifies lines of ownership for both business and technical teams, defining who is responsible for what areas of the system. Furthermore it establishes rules for appropriate usage of the SharePoint environments within your organization.

An effective governance plan ensures the system is managed and used in accordance with its designed intent to prevent it from becoming an unmanageable system. The management of an enterprise-wide system involves both a strategic, business-minded board to craft rules and procedures for the use of the system and also a tactical, technically-competent team to manage the routine operational tasks that keep the system running. Users of the system will be empowered by a support and developer community sponsored by the business leaders.

When establishing your SharePoint governance plan it is important to take into consideration the Offline SharePoint client your roaming users will be utilising, i.e. how does SP Accelerator 2009 fit into your organizations overall SharePoint strategy.
Branding
Establishing a core brand will not only make the offline client seem to belong to the organization but will promote better navigation and organization. Providing a consistent look and feel across your clients accessing your SharePoint information is essential to letting users know they are using your internal SharePoint applications.

SP Accelerator 2009 has branding settings which can be configured to allow you to brand the application according to your organization's requirements. Administrators can deploy a branded Welcome screen, corporate logo and customize them for all SP Accelerator 2009 users using group policies or other administrator tools.

If you are a SharePoint hosting organization and you want to create a custom branded offline SharePoint exp