Before You Make SharePoint Public

Today I presented at the first 24-Hour SharePoint Conference! Thank you all for attending. My session was prerecorded, which was a little odd to record a session without an audience, but it was worth it. I had a lot of fun doing it and I had a great turn out. Thanks again for joining!

You can watch it in its entirety below. The deck is just below there, and I threw some of the questions below as well, along with the animated GIF from the video. Enjoy!

Video

[youtube http://youtu.be/5a-9BRIQU-E]

Presentation

Great Questions

I had some great questions during the session, thanks to all who attended. Some questions I received during the session:

Jared:  who’s moderating this beast? Christian Buckley again?

Mark:  this one is non anchored

Mark:  Keep the questions comign though

Jared:  That’s poor planning, David Lozzi will definitely require supervision

Mark:  lol

Mark:  let see…

Me:   I’ll be ok

Amy:  David – Do you only need licensing for the person or persons building the site?

Me:  if hosting on-premises?

Amy:  online

Eduard:  online limit: 1 person – 1 public site

Eduard:  online 100 person – 1 public site

Me:  SharePoint Online or O365 will have the licenses included, however i’m not sure… thanks Eduard

Me:  i have some links in the references for comparing the versions of O365 and SP ONline

Eduard:  so you need only 1 licence to run online public facing site

Jared:  Amy – for public facing site you just need 1 license

Jared:  That’s what we have for our User Group site.. Just need licenses for those that are logging in to make changes.

Eduard:  friendly urls is only on prem?

Me:  Not on Public site for SharePoint Online, you can use it on your private sites

Eduard:  sure

Pavan:  Question: Intend to convert a public facing .net site to a SharePoint public facing site, currently we have SP 2010 Enterprise, so my question is do i need any extra licenses to have anonymous access available?

Jared:  Pavan – if you’re hosting it then yes.. You’ll want to talk about SharePoint for Internet with your MS Rep

Me:  Great question Pavan. I completely forget the licensing model for SP2010. I remember in 2007, maybe 2010, that there was an Internet Connector license for making SharePoint public. MS has gone away with that for 2013, maybe for 2010?

Me:  I recommend chatting with your MS rep to clarify

Eduard:  Are there ana advantages in terms of SEO between on prem and online?

Me:  @Eduard page SEO is the same, sitemap is there. Online doesn’t have managed navigation

Me:  For me that’s a big loss for SEO

Eduard:  a meen to remeber that managed navigation have also drawbacks to SEO

Me:  @Eduard, what drawbacks?

Eduard:  as far as I remeber, if you have a content like wiki, that is highly interconnected – and now you start build up a managed navigation – the links are different

Me:  Ah, good point.

Me:  just a little more tedious to manage

Eduard:   yeahh