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 Since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an application platform, not just an application, maintaining and managing a SharePoint farm requires many skills. The level of complexity is comparable to SAP, although SharePoint does much more than SAP. The required skills are so broad it’s almost impossible to find them in one person. However, most of what’s required can be found in two roles: System Administrator and SharePoint Development Leader (in many environments, some parts of the System Administrator role can be handled by standard server operation procedures (anti-virus, firewall, etc.).
SHAREPOINT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR:
The System Administrator role in a SharePoint farm is very broad since it requires knowledge of both SQL Server and Windows Server. Many companies therefore look to their SQL Server DBAs to take on the role of SharePoint System Administrator since SharePoint stores all of its data in SQL Server databases.
However, the Windows Server knowledge required to build and maintain a SharePoint farm is considerable, and DBAs may not have the time or desire to acquire this knowledge. Therefore, the System Administrator role is often split between two people who work closely together: a Windows Server administrator and a SQL Server DBA.
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 (Rating: 5 out of 5) by Kevin Gunther-Canada, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Working in higher education, I see the need for business process automation on an almost daily basis. Unlike traditional businesses, academia is a difficult environment to attempt to create or impose standardized automated business processes in any real way, since such institutions tend to be highly decentralized and complex environments. SharePoint is a tool that seems to have been developed to address these kinds of business needs: it offers a foundational architecture that suffers from relatively few of the restrictive rules of turnkey solutions, while still providing much of the flexibility of custom-developed applications to address the myriad of unique needs academic institutions tend to have ...
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Written by Mike Ferrara
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(Rating: 5 out of 5)
For server administrators, backup and restore processes are essential in production environments. This is obviously no different for SharePoint farms, but out-of-the-box (OOTB) features for backup and restore are certainly lacking in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The Selective Restore Manager Pro from Metalogix is one such product that aims to fill the void left by Microsoft ...
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Written by Tony Rockwell
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 (Rating: 4 out of 5)
Most businesses want an open and communicative environment. This most commonly includes the display of an organization chart on the company intranet. For the growing number of companies who implemented SharePoint as their intranet, Microsoft left a gaping hole in the out-of-the-box functionality of both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 when it comes to addressing this need. Content and Code’s 1OrgChart is one of the better products that has appeared on the market to fill the gap ...
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Written by Mike Ferrara
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(Rating: 4 out of 5)
One column type missing from SharePoint that I've always found useful is the cascading list. Not only is a cascading list a staple field type on most web forms, but it is a big favorite with end users. It magically narrows down your choices on the next column once you've made a selection from the previous column! Big deal right? We've seen these things for years on the web, but Microsoft just did not feel comfortable with making these an out-of-the-box option. Luckily for us, we've got options from 3rd party developers...
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