If you haven’t yet heard the New Zealand SharePoint community is hosting its third SharePoint Conference in Wellington on March 16th and 17th! If you are working on anything related to SharePoint then this is the place to be. As usual some of the worlds best SharePoint experts are speaking at the event and you also get to learn about what’s been happening locally. This conference is by the community for the community and with a ticket price of just $700 for two full days of content it more than delivers on a range of speciality areas and topics. Some of the highlights for this year are: Community Challenge 2011 – A full SharePoint solution conceptualised, designed and delivered in two days right at the conference! Customer Immersion Experience – Try out all the integrated technologies for a complete solution on the Microsoft Produ ...[Read More]

Via the team @knowledgecue and @ckukltd you can get hold of this step by step guide. This is a collaborative effort with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge (UK). Steve runs a unique training class aimed for Infrastructure administrators who want to know about SharePoint in depth and this is one of the many module from that class. Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a capability of SQL server 2008 and 2008R2 that can be used to offload content stored in databases to the file system. The guide covers the following three scenarios. Setup and configure FILESTREAM and RBS for a new content database. Configure RBS for an existing content database and site collection. Disable RBS from a content database. Download the guide from the Knowledge Cue team site - Configuring Remote Blob Storage for SharePoint ...[Read More]

If you’ve followed some of my previous posts and presentations on SharePoint upgrade or are about to plan an Upgrade the following Video (link below) would be of interest. The video is from the Microsoft IT team who conducted the internal Microsoft SharePoint upgrade. Some of the key points for any successful upgrade are discussed in the video: detect issues early by learning about the deployment communications with site owners/administrators no data loss minimal downtime Initial Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Microsoft IT SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Video) Managing a Parallel Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Video) Upgrade Planning and Best Practices - TechNet Upgrade Resource Centre – TechNet Remember the more you know about the deployment the better the upgrade experience is. I’ve done many upgrades and it’s unique in e ...[Read More]