In a nutshell, the SharePoint Administrator should be responsible for some activities. In the table below I tried to split the customer and the SharePoint Admin roles.
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Simple Responsabilty Matrix for SharePoint Roles:
| STEP | ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION | PERFORMED BY SP TEAM | PERFORMED BY THE CUSTOMER |
| 1 | SharePoint Farm configuration | X | |
| 2 | SharePoint Farm Administration | X | |
| 3 | SharePoint Services Application configuration | X | |
| 4 | Development of Worflows | X | |
| 5 | Development of solutions | X | |
| 6 | Deploy of solutions | X | |
| 7 | Give the appropriate site collection permissions (First and Second SC Adm) | X | |
| 8 | Aditional site collection permissions | X | |
| 9 | Managing SharePoint sites permissions | X | |
| 10 | Create Web Applications | X | |
| 11 | Create Site Collections | X | |
| 12 | Provide the Architeture of farm | X | |
| 13 | Provide the Architeture of Services Applications | X | |
| 14 | Troubleshooting SharePoint infrastructure problems | X | |
| 15 | Edit web.config files | X | |
| 16 | Update web.config file (copy web.config file to its application) | X | |
| 17 | Responsible for management the web application content | X | |
| 18 | Provide the infrastructure to Backup the Farm | X | |
| 19 | Performe Backup/Restore the Farm | X | |
| 20 | Performe Backup/Restore of Site Collections | X | |
| 21 | Performe moving/copying sites | X | |
| 22 | Managing and checking the overall server health and functionality | X | |
| 23 | Setting up auditing for SharePoint Site Collections | X | |
| 24 | Guidance for governance of SharePoint farms and Web Applications | X | |
| 25 | Guidance for Site Collections Quotas | X | |
| 26 | Setting up quotas for Site Collections | X | |
| 27 | Apply SharePoint patches and cumulative updates | X | |
| 28 | Request to apply SharePoint patches and cumulative updates | X | |
| 29 | Regularly analyzing SharePoint content and storage | X | |
| 30 | Monitoring SharePoint trends (e.g. site usage and growth, disk space usage and growth) | X | |
| 31 | Setting up alerts and enforcing policies | X | |
| 32 | Guidance for alerts and enforcing policies | X | |
| 33 | Update binaries for some application (copy files to some application) | X | |
| 34 | Edit binaries for some application (files to some application) | X | |
| 35 | Write PowerShell Scripts to manage SharePoint | X |
