Governance¶
[Team | Jackson Team] [Tech Lead | TBC] [Service Owner | TBC] [Service Manager | TBC] [Product Manager | TBC]
This page gives an overview of the Governance portal, describing its current status, where and how it's developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Service Description¶
A central resource for governance information, the governance site details the University's governance structure and decision-making processes, and provides access to the work of the Council and central committees.
Service Status¶
The governance site is currently live.
Contact¶
Technical queries and support should be emailed to UIS Service Desk and will be picked up by a member of the team working on the service.
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues in the application repository.
Environments¶
The governance site is currently deployed to the following SharePoint farms:
Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
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Production | https://www.governance.cam.ac.uk/ | |
Web Server | spt-live-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Application Server | spt-live-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Database | spt-live-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Staging | https://spt-test.admin.cam.ac.uk/governance_test | |
Web Server | spt-test-web1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Application Server | spt-test-app1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Database | spt-test-db1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk | |
Off Web App | Office Web App | spt-offwebapp1.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk |
About Office Web App¶
Office Web App is used by both production and staging farms. It delivers browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote without installing the client applications locally.
Source code¶
The source code for the governance portal is spread over the following repositories:
Repository | Description |
---|---|
SharePoint 2010 release | The source code by Clear People |
SharePoint 2010 update | The patches developed after original release |
Technologies used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies the governance portal is built on.
Category | Language | Framework(s) |
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SharePoint 2010 portal | C#, PowerShell | SharePoint 2010 server solution |
SharePoint 2013 portal | C#, PowerShell | SharePoint 2013 server solution |
Operational documentation¶
The following gives an overview of how the governance portal is deployed and maintained.
How and where the governance portal is deployed¶
The SharePoint server side features are deployed after a SharePoint publishing site is created.
Deploying a new release¶
There is no more active development. The current site will be migrated to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.
Debugging¶
There is no more active development.
Service Management¶
The Team responsible for this service is Jackson Team.
The Tech Lead for this service is TBC.
The Service Owner for this service is TBC.
The Service Manager for this service is TBC.
The Product Manager for this service is TBC.
The following engineers have operational experience with this service and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: