Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Colm Whelan to present at SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire September

This is a synopsis of my presentation coming up in September.

Colm is an accomplished New England based SharePoint consultant with over 60 implementations under his belt and has been working fulltime on SharePoint engagements since 2005. His specialties include ECM, Governance, Upgrades, Workflow and Microsoft Online Services. Colm is currently assisting Microsoft with the Office 365 SharePoint rollout through the “Technology Adoption Program” TAP. Colm is from Ireland where he worked for Microsoft and has lived in in the Northeast for 9 years.

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscription service that combines Microsoft Office Web Applications with a set of web-enabled tools that are easy to learn and use, that work with your existing hardware, and that come backed by the robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business. Office 365 helps you communicate and collaborate more effectively with always-up-to-date software. Microsoft Office 365 lets you work from virtually anywhere and on almost any device. 

Join us for a lively and focused discussion that will include:
- Economics of the Cloud - Why is Office 365 Important to Me?
- What is Office 365 SharePoint Online?
- What's New in Office 365 SharePoint Online?
- What are the Differences Between Office 365 SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise?  
- How Do I Deploy?

Link to SPSNH

Monday, July 18, 2011

Unable to Configure the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Client for Outlook against Dynamics CRM Online

Slightly off topic but as a MSFT cloud partner I use Dynamics CRM Online all the time.

If you run into an issue whereby you no longer (or never could) connect your outlook client to CRM Online please try this fix.

- If you have Windows Live essentials 2011 (in my case I use Live Mesh)
-  Run a repair on the Windows Live Essentials 2011.
- Then try to run the dynamics crm configuration wizard again.

Worked for me.

Monday, July 11, 2011

SharePoint 2010 - 4TBs databases SP1

 With the release of SP1 SharePoint 2010 now supports up to 4TBs databases under specific circumstances liste below. Go to Link for more information.
  • For a SharePoint content database up to 200 GB there are no special requirements and this limit is included for consistency.
  • For a SharePoint content database up to 4 TB you need to additionally plan for the following two requirements:
    • Requires disk sub-system performance of 0.25 IOPS per GB, 2 IOPS per GB is recommended for optimal performance.
    • Requires the customer to have plans for high availability, disaster recovery, future capacity, and performance testing.
  • For a SharePoint content database over 4TB specifically for a Document Archive scenario you are required to additionally plan for the following:
    • SharePoint sites must be based on Document Center or Records Center site templates and must be an archive scenario where less than 5% of content is actively read from each month and less than 1% of content is actively written to.
    • Do not use alerts, workflows, link fix-ups, or item level security on any SharePoint objects in the content database. Note: document archive content databases can be the recipient of documents as a result of Content Routing workflow.
  • Other specific limits changes being made at the same time:
    • A new limit of 60million items in any one SharePoint content database
    • The specific 5 TB limit per SQL Server instance has been removed. Instead you should work with a SQL Server professional to plan for database storage.