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 …
Category Archive: SP2010
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 …
Jan
05
SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference – London
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 …
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 …
Dec
09
SharePoint Saturday Kansas City, MO – 12.12.2009
So this weekend I’m off to present at SharePoint Saturday in Kansas City. It is shaping up to be a stellar event and it looks like there are still a few (free) seats left! I’ll be presenting a session on “Architecting for Scale in SharePoint 2010″. Here’s the session description: “Scaling SharePoint has presented many …
Nov
20
SP2010 Single Server Complete Install – An Extra Note
So I set out to fire up a fresh SP2010 install with the new BETA bits today… Since I wanted to do a “Complete” install using SQL 2008 (not Express), I promptly referenced Neil Hodgkinson’s “From the Field” blog top on “Single Server Complete Install of SharePoint 2010 using local accounts.” Excellent post Neil! It …
Oct
24
SP2010 Scalability (4 of 4): In-Place Records Management
Ok, so lets do a little math here. In SharePoint 2007, you can define only 1 Records Center at a time for official files. A single site collection (including a Records Center) in its own content database might contain somewhere around 1 million documents at a meager average of 55KB per document. That keeps us under the …
SP2010 ECM Book!
