SharePoint Secrets

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010. It has an interesting mix of features including support for a Microsoft product still in code-name stage and re-introduction of a feature that was taken away in SharePoint 2010. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog says it is “strongly recommended” that you install the June 2011 Cumulative Update “immediately after the installation of Service Pack 1. The June Cumulative Update includes several important security and bug fixes that are not included Service Pack 1.” Here’s what’s included in SharePoint 2010 SP1: Denali. SQL Server “Denali” support has been added. SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 were already supported, of course. Shallow copy. If you’re using Remote BLOB storage (RBS), SP1’s support for shallow copy lets you update pointers to objects in the destination content database. (Shallow copy is the movement of structured site collection data across content databases without touching the unstructured data in the BLOB st...

Introduction One of the most important things for planning, managing and governing a SharePoint 2010 environment is to understand the boundaries and thresholds that affect performance and maintenance. Capacity Planning is extremely important when architecting a new SharePoint 2010 environment. A lot of times people designing SharePoint environments or creating SharePoint solutions completely forget about how Capacity Planning is directly tied to use cases and business scenarios. Knowing where your limits are and how you plan to grow will affect both your physical topology and logical topology. Microsoft has actually put out a ton of information that you can use for SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning. In this blog I will touch on: Web Site and Site Collection Capacity Planning Content Database Capacity Planning List and Library Capacity Planning Search Capacity Planning Security Capacity Planning Social Networking Capacity Planning User Profile Service and Social Networking Cap...