Russ Houberg

Author's details

Name: Russ Houberg
Date registered: July 15, 2011
URL: http://www.houberg.com

Biography

Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnowledgeLake for over 6 years. Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers who regularly require enterprise class scalability. Russ has spent the last several years focused on pushing the boundaries of SharePoint scalability and has authored several whitepapers, including two on behalf of Microsoft; the “SQL Server 2008 R2 Remote BLOB Storage” whitepaper and the “Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability” case study (co-author). Russ also co-authored "SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management" published by Wrox press.

Latest posts

  1. SharePoint Saturday Denver 2011 — November 8, 2011
  2. Scaling SharePoint Records Centers #spc11 #spc382 — October 6, 2011
  3. SharePoint 2010 MCM — September 28, 2011
  4. SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management — September 2, 2011
  5. Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA — August 2, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. A Guide to Enabling the CodePlex RBS Provider on SharePoint 2010 — 18 comments
  2. Microsoft Certified Master – SharePoint 2007 — 7 comments
  3. Microsoft is Forcing Me to use VMWare! — 6 comments
  4. SharePoint 2010 MCM — 6 comments
  5. SP2010 Scalability (3 of 4): Remote BLOB Storage — 5 comments

Author's posts listings

Feb
04

Calling all Workflow Developers…

In my previous post, I suggested that I don’t like to plug KnowledgeLake on my personal blog because I want this blog to be neutral in order to best serve the SharePoint community.  In regard to my technical posts, I will always strive to maintain this neutrality.  But this is not a technical post!  So I’m going to make an …

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Feb
04

Microsoft Whitepaper: Remote BLOB Storage Whitepaper

Last fall I was asked by the Microsoft SQL Server RBS Dev team to author a whitepaper on the topic of Remote BLOB Storage (RBS).  The whitepaper has now been published. Here is a direct download link to the RBS Whitepaper. The document reference was originally featured on this page.  RBS is a powerful SQL Server 2008 R2 …

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Feb
03

European SharePoint Best Practices Conference: April 11-13

I am honored to once again be invited to speak at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London.  The conference is being held from April 11th to the 13th   Last year a pesky little volcano in Iceland completely wrecked international travel between the US and Europe for several week. God willing, the volcano will …

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Aug
02

SharePoint Saturday Denver and RBS Updates

Wow.  Long break from blog posting!  Sorry about that.  Once again, duty calls.  I was booked solid from March until mid-summer.  Then it was vacation time.  So there was little time to generate meaningful blog post content. What happened in the meantime?  Well, Microsoft released this tiny little server product called SharePoint Server 2010 and …

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Jan
19

A Guide to Enabling the CodePlex RBS Provider on SharePoint 2010

Over the holiday break I spent quite a bit of time trying to get a real good handle on exactly how SharePoint 2010 and RBS interact in order to externalize content to a BLOB store. As part of that effort, I implemented the CodePlex RBS Provider as an exercise to learn more about the roles …

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Jan
05

SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference – London

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So I’ve been spending the last month or so disecting the RBS framework in SharePoint 2010.  I’ve already succeeded in enabling the CodePlex RBS example provider in SP2010.  I’m sure I’ll be posting a “how to” on that in the coming weeks. But I’m also cooking something else.  The CodePlex RBS SP2010 example is the …

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Dec
22

Slides from SharePoint Saturday KC

I’m finally getting around to posting the slide deck that presented at SharePoint Saturday KC.  The topic was “Architecting for Scale in SharePoint 2010″ It’s a pretty juicy deck with lots of detail that will help you with storage architecture and SQL tuning.  It also provides good background on Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) and the …

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