Monthly Archives for December 2010

SharePoint and Remote Blob Storage (RBS) questions

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - December 22, 2010

A customer emailed me today with the following questions: If we are using Remote Blob Store, can users see these files from SharePoint web interface and SharePoint Workspace? How are we going to backup these files? The answer is: Yes, users will be able to use both SharePoint web interface…

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SharePoint Saturday EMEA 2011 – Call for speakers

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - December 12, 2010

We are working on SharePoint Saturday EMEA 2011, here is the “official” press release: I’ve been working with Toni, Isaac and Ayman to layout the format for speaker submissions for SharePoint Saturday EMEA. We have agreed that the content for this special event will focus on the SharePoint End User. Imaging…

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Not every SharePoint site template supports Multilingual UI (MUI)!

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - December 12, 2010

While demonstrating new and cool SharePoint 2010 features to a customer, I wanted to show how easy it is to switch languages on SharePoint 2010 sites, but I was surprised by the following error message: So it seems there are OOTB templates which do not support alternate languages (Supports Multilingual UI). I did…

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How to remove renamed SharePoint 2010 Service App Databases

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - December 6, 2010

If you ever installed SharePoint 2010 using the installation wizard you probably noticed up ~15 new databases deployed to the SQL Server. Not just you now have to manage 15 more databases 🙁 but all these have very non-admin friendly names like: WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ReportingDB_33ae7492-5e53-433a-bfca-2b1d819dc646. A number of people (like Todd Klindt,…

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