Michaels SharePoint Blog: April 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

External Blob Storage vs. Remote Blob Storage

Why BLOBs ?

What are BLOBs and what are they good for ? A BLOB is a binary large object. I.e. that this data is very large, big and unstructured. SQL is the main database for SharePoint where all data is stored. The proposal from Microsoft is to restrict the capacity of a SharePoint content library to 200MB. The reason for this is that the data can be handled better and the system remains on a high performance level. See more information here: https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc298801.aspx.

When the users get integrated into SharePoint and play around with it, the system is integrated deeper intoy our company and the data will grow. Users will perhaps put videos in SharePoint or other big data like large project oder Excel files. This makes the system slow and the performance will go down. The SQL Server can also get very big and blow up. Maybe the SQL Server is additionally used by other systems that need storage place and big SharePoint data can cut this and make other systems run slow, too. With SharePoint 2007 we used External Blob Storage, and with SharePoint 2010/2013 came the Remote Blob Storage.

SharePoint is not an information storage - separate data

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Wo decides about SharePoint Implementation ?

We know it all...

Don't we know it all ? In a company there’s an idea about implementing a software to get more involved, to optimize work – all in all: To get better. We hear a lot of myths about the software and always the good things are brought to our attention - only when there is an issue that is very unbelievable or astounding we get to hear the negative points. However, generally we get in touch and only want to know the good things about a product. E.g. let's look at SAP. At first nobody says that an overall SAP implementation can be very expensive and time consuming. Everyone is merely talking about how fast you will be able to work in the future, how divisions grow together in a phase of real collaboration or how KPIs can be displayed easily and smoothly.

The real world

About me

My Name is Michael Huber. I am 33 years old and started to work in the IT business as a career changer 10 years ago. I have more than 4 years SharePoint project experience.

Technical evolution

I've been working for over 10 years in the IT business as a sales person. In the past I worked in the business of IT trainings. The last years before the new "age" of SharePoint I was focused on Business Intelligence Projects. The last 4 years I was employed at an IT-Consulting company based in Nuremberg. I started as a newcomer in the SharePoint field. The main parts we were working on were SharePoint projects. We mainly started with version 2003, finally we got integrated in several projects with SharePoint 2010 und 2013.

Person background

I have a commercial education and did further educations. I reached bachelors degree last year and I got 1 year to go to the Master degree. I worked over 10 years in different areas in the IT business. Mainly I was working as a sales person. But even so I worked as a specialist for a korean start-up company which wanted to start business in europe in Munich or in the last 2 years in business development. I learned a lot about the core of a consulting company and took care of the partners of a SharePoint Consulting company, such as AvePoint or Nintex. I have a well integrated network of people I can trust in and who know me very well.

By starting to work with SharePoint and costumers I learned a lot about the technology, the people who work with it and the things you have to take attention on when you integrate SharePoint in your company. My Bachelor Thesis was about a practical example of process optimization with collaboration and workflows at a costumer of mine. I was deeply integrated in SharePoint projects with project management und handling of consultants, too.