GAC
GAC
Please don't put that in my GAC...
I have had the opportunity over the past two weeks to speak with several customers in regards to SharePoint Products and Technologies as a platform, geographically disperse architectural considerations, but one question stood out that was shared by each of these customers - “How do you [Microsoft] manage customizations in your SharePoint deployments?". Before beginning to answer the question, I immediately realized how both widespread and common customization on this iteration of SharePoint is when compared to its predecessors.