Office 365 Extranet Users - Minor Gotcha

Today I was adding external users to a site collection for a customer and ran into a learning experience. To enable "external sharing" the site collection feature needs to be enabled and "Manage External Users" need to be enabled on "Manage Site Collections" on the site admin portal.


The issue I ran into was related to was related to enabling "Manage External Users" which is enabled under site collection settings. The "settings" is grayed out unless you deselect all site collections - not the most intuitive as you would presume it is related to individual site collections and not all at once.


Greyed Out:

Not Greyed Out:

SharePoint End to End Performance Optimization - Just Added Riverbed

Clearway Announces Partnership with Riverbed Technology to Optimize Application Performance

August 22nd, 2011

Clearway today announced it has partnered with Riverbed Technology to deliver application performance optimization solutions. Clearway will provide sales and deployment services of Riverbed solutions for the northeastern United States.
More than 13,000 organizations worldwide, across a wide range of markets, depend on Riverbed to understand, optimize and consolidate their IT infrastructure. Riverbed delivers hardware, software and virtualized solutions that overcome performance issues caused by distance, distributed computing, and ever increasing amounts of data. Riverbed provides the only comprehensive WAN optimization solutions to a host of problems that prevent enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide-area networks anywhere in the world.

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SharePoint End to End Performance Optimization

Need all bases covered in your SharePoint perfomance challenges. Clearway has you covered.

 “Our comprehensive SharePoint performance optimization solutions now include: database tuning, SharePoint application tuning, WAN acceleration, content caching, and Internet route optimization. Clearway can help organizations make applications delivered over the Internet behave as if they were on their private LAN.”

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Learn How SharePoint Online Can Supplement Your On Premise Deployment.

Microsoft has put together learning materials about how SharePoint Online can help supplement your on-premise SharePoint 2010 Products deployment.

Video Learning Series

Introduction

Scenarios

Users

Support

Conclusion

Narrated Presentation

Exploring SharePoint Online for IT Professionals

Whitepaper

Microsoft SharePoint Online: An Overview for Enterprise IT Professionals

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

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.

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.