[Via Paul Andrew] Today we are updating the SharePoint Boundaries and Limits document on TechNet with larger content database size limits and we are clarifying the value in Remote Blob Storage (RBS). With these changes to the SharePoint software boundaries the discussion of scale limits moves to other areas such as appropriate hardware, SQL Server […]
Jie Li, one of the Program Managers for the SharePoint product family recently created a very interesting article revealing the internals about what’s going on under the hood when installing updates for SharePoint. There’re always lots of questions around SharePoint patching. How to patch SharePoint? Which patch should I use to get a certain build […]
The product group released the June 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. Be aware that the June Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that the fixes included in June CU are not part of SP1 and that you have to install SP1 first and then […]
[from Office Sustained Engineering Blog] On Tuesday Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint 2010 was made available. SP1 contains a number of important fixes that improve the SharePoint experience for our customers. With the recommendation to install SP1 for SharePoint came a recommendation to ALSO deploy the June Cumulative Update (CU) for SharePoint simultaneously. It’s […]
The Documentation about SharePoint 2010 and RBS on Technet has been updated recently. You can find the links to the updated articles below: SharePoint Foundation 2010 Overview of RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Plan for RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) Install and configure RBS (SharePoint Foundation 2010) SharePoint Server 2010 Overview of RBS (SharePoint Server 2010) Plan […]
I just came across an interesting issue related to resource throtteling and workflow associations: When assigning a workflow which should automatically start on item creation or change to a list we automatically try to create a new column in the list which is used to carry the workflow status information. I said “try to create” because […]
Yesterday the product group officially announced Service Pack 1 for the Office 2010 Suite including SharePoint 2010. More details are listed on the official blog of the Office Sustained Engineering Team:http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/05/11/announcing-service-pack-1-for-office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx
In the last couple of weeks I received various questions about April 2011 CU fixes for various different Office products. As I’m in the SharePoint business I usually only posted the hotfix information for the SharePoint suite but as it seems to be of general interest here is a summary of all April CU fixes […]
The product group released the April 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded. As soon as the KB articles are […]
We just had a support case where a customer was trying to use Client Certificate authentication with SharePoint 2010. Client Certificate authentication was a supported authentication method in SharePoint 2007 but with SharePoint 2010 client certificate authentication it is not supported and there are also certain scenarios where using client certificate authentication will not work […]
I recently received a question regarding site and system master pages in SharePoint. It seems that the purpose of these two master pages is not clear to everyone so here is a short summary: By default the following rule applies: Site Master Pages: used by all publishing pages – and only by publishing pages System […]
Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of the KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes […]
