I'm doing some research on strategic decision-making. I took the following notes from a brief (30 minute) video of Peter Cohan on strategic decision-making. He has a web site at http://petercohan.com/ .

Migrating content with SharePoint is a well-known pain point. All too often, SharePoint just isn't up to the job of migrating everything you need, potentially leaving you with a broken and incomplete system.

Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) have been pain points for many SharePoint customers. Microsoft's Bill Baer, SharePoint Technical Product Manager, gave a presentation at Teched 2010 on the topic, and it is now available online, at http://northamerica.msteched.com/?fbid=qhPGAfbdVsq .

The introduction of the FAST search engine in SharePoint 2010 has made SharePoint a serious contender in the search space, but has also increased the complexity of a SharePoint deployment.

So if you want to become a FAST expert, or diagnose an existing installation, where should you start?

Microsoft has cancelled the "Oslo" project, which was also known by more recent name  SQL Server Modeling CTP (Repository/Modeling Services, "Quadrant".)  They spill the beans here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/modelcitizen/archive/2010/09/22/update-on-sql-se...

Stakeholder engagement is a critical part of a successful SharePoint project. Part of this activity is about understanding how the organization functions and makes decisions.

I’ve just watched a presentation by Jeff Fried from Microsoft, titled “FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 – What you need to know.” http://www.ba-insight.net/Resource%20Library/2010-02-23%2014.02%20FAST%2... .

Here’s a summary.

I’ve just finished reading the Packt Publishing book “Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration BluePrint: A real-world SOA Strategy for the Integration of Heterogeneous Enterprise Systems”.

Microsoft has released their SharePoint 2010 CMIS Connector - a SharePoint solution that aids integration of enterprise content management systems.(CMIS stands for Content Management Interoperability Specification).