Microsoft has a lot of content published about database sizing and performance for SharePoint 2010. But it spans a number of documents and some questions are either not fully answered or have conflicting options. This post aims to provide a single summary, albeit quite a long one. All sizing recommendations are taken from Microsoft guidelines [...]
Read more »SharePoint 2010 is a hefty upgrade from SharePoint 2007 and the hardware and software requirements have also jumped. This is the first in a series of posts looking at the planning guidelines published by Microsoft. All references are at the end of the post. Microsoft has published the following on TechNet, as the minimum required [...]
Read more »This question cropped up a couple of times in the comments to the Adobe PDF Indexing blog post
How do you open a PDF in a web page on SharePoint?
Here is the method I use. There may be prettier and better ways to do it. If you know of one, please add a comment.
The short version:
- Take one Content Editor web part
- Enter <embed> tags containing the PDF fie as the source
The longer version…
Read more »With the release of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 earlier this year, a new set of applications also arrived – Office Web Applications. Office Web Apps are browser-based versions of Office, enabling you to create, view and edit presentations, spreadsheets and documents using just a web browser.
Two questions keep coming up in SharePoint conversations with clients – What’s the licensing for Office Web Apps? Can I create documents using just Office Web Apps with SharePoint or do I still need Office to be installed?…
Read more »One of the new features with SharePoint 2010 is the option to add-on FAST for advanced indexing and search capabilities. The short presentation below gives an idea of the extras you get with FAST versus just using SharePoint. The focus is on internal indexing/search solutions. FAST offers a lot more over SharePoint for use with public facing web sites but that’s a whole other scenario.
Read more »May 23
Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
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