Yesterday we announced a new webinar series where we will review and demonstrate the features of StoragePoint 3.0. StoragePoint 3.0 is a highly anticipated release that provides significant advancement over our already robuts BLOB remoting capabilities for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. New features like Intelligent Archiving, Multiple Storage End Points, and advanced reporting capabilities significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of SharePoint deployments while providing improved performance, reduced backup/restore time frames, and flexible storage options . StoragePoint 3.0 is a must have for organizations deploying any level of document management or enterprise content management solutions on SharePoint 20007 or SharePoint 2010. To register for an upcoming webinar please visit our Event Brite page at http://storagepoint.eventbrite.com. For more information on StoragePoint visit www.storagepoint.com, blog.storagepoint.com, or www.youtube.com/user/storagepoint.
Organizations are often tasked with storing content in a compliant way. Whether you are dealing with SEC, HIPAA, SOX, or DOD compliance scenarios, SharePoint’s native storage architecture fails to meet the level compliance that organizations require. Enter StoragePoint. By leveraging supported APIs and interfaces, StoragePoint alters the native SharePoint storage architecture allowing you to separate the BLOB (Binary Large Object) from the content metadata. The metadata is stored within SharePoint Content Databases while the BLOB can be remoted to a variety of storage locations. For complaince scenarios organizations often turn to EMC Centera to provide WORM (Write Once Read Many) storage. StoragePoint provides a certified storage adapter for storing SharePoint content on EMC Centera. EMC recently certified our StoragePoint adapter. Check out the press release. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Metalogix-Releases-bw-3469966683.html?x=0&.v=1
The marketing folks on the StoragePoint team recently released a very compelling StoragePoint customer evidence video. The list of customer success stories with StoragePoint continues to grow. There is little question that StoragePoint is the premier BLOB remoting solution for SharePoint. Check out the video below. For more information on StoragePoint visit http://www.storagepoint.com. Stay tuned for information on the highly anticipated release of StoragePoint 3.0 with full support for SharePoint 2010.
It’s not uncommon to have multiple SharePoint content databases for a single SharePoint application. The separation of site collections into different content databases is typically done in an attempt to work around content database size recommendations provided by Microsoft (see Microsoft’s Plan for Software Boundaries document for more information). In many cases organizations have one content database per site collection. After deploying StoragePoint into your existing SharePoint farm the next logical step is to run the externalize job(s) which will relocate your existing content outside of the content database. Once completed you will be left with very small content databases that can now be merged (note that you will have to run the DBCC_ShrinkDB script several times to reclaim your unused database space or rebuild table indexes before running dbcc_shrinkDB. For more information consult the StoragePoint Administrator’s Guide). Merging SharePoint content databases can be done using the stsadm command. Execute the steps below to merge your content databases.
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Prerequisites
- **** Important! Microsoft recommends applying the April Cumulative Update before you merge content databases. There are known issues with this merge database command prior to this update.
- Even though your content databases will be very small after relocating BLOBs with StoragePoint’s externalize job, you must make sure you have enough free space to merge content databases. The general rule is that you must have at least three times the size of source site collections database size. *** Note: Do not use the value returned for the StorageUsedMB property when running the stsadm -o enumsites -url webappurl to determine your database size. With StoragePoint deployed this property will reflect the total space used by content in SharePoint but not the actual size of the content database.
- In order to execute the following STSADM command you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group and be an Administrator on the local computer. Additionally you need to have Full Control permission for any site collection being moved. For SQL Server, you must be a member of the db_owner database role.
Steps to Merge Content Databases
- From a SharePoint server in your farm, open a command prompt and navigate to %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin
- Type the following STSTADM Command
STSADM –o mergecontentdbs –url <url of web application> –sourcedatabasename <source db name> –destinationdatabasename <dest. db name> –operation2 Note that the URL is the URL of the web application that contains the site collection. This is not the URL of the site collection itself.
Operation2 = full database merge - Restart IIS by running iisreset/noforce from a command prompt.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ — (at the Microsoft(®) SharePoint(®)
Conference); BlueThread Technologies(®), Inc. (BlueThread) announced
StoragePoint(®) for SharePoint 2010. Attendees at the conference can preview a
demonstration of the 2010 version at the BlueThread booth. StoragePoint
enables organizations to realize at least a 95% reduction in the size of their
SharePoint content databases by relocating content BLOBs (Binary Large
Objects) out of the SQL database onto virtually any Cloud-based or on-premise
storage platform. It improves SharePoint manageability, scalability,
performance and security without any sacrifice to functionality or user
experience.
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“We wanted to provide our clients with unprecedented SharePoint 2010 BLOB
storage flexibility,” says Rob D’Oria, BlueThread’s CTO and co-Founder. “With
StoragePoint 2010, you will be able to create policy-based storage profiles
which manage content BLOBs at a very granular level. It also leverages both
SharePoint 2010 EBS and RBS provider interfaces. Clients can choose to use
them independently, side-by- side or leverage our out-of-the-box the EBS to
RBS migration capability.”
D’Oria continues, “Organizations don’t have to wait for 2010 in order to
realize the benefits of StoragePoint. WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 customers can
install StoragePoint within their existing SharePoint deployment while taking
comfort that a no-hassle upgrade to 2010 is already in place.”
Mark Wiley, Chesapeake Energy’s IT Supervisor for Document Management &
Collaboration said; “Our current StoragePoint deployment reduced our content
databases from 450 gigabytes to less than 20, a reduction of over 95%. Not
only did it dramatically improve SharePoint manageability, it surprisingly
increased performance as well. As an early adopter of Microsoft technologies,
we are looking forward to SharePoint 2010 and leveraging StoragePoint.”
“BlueThread is a great partner and StoragePoint is a perfect complement to our
SharePoint 2010 ECM solution,” said Ron Cameron; President and CEO of
Knowledgelake, a BlueThread partner. “StoragePoint enables our customers who
are scanning millions, or even ten-of-millions of documents with our software
to manage them simply and easily within SharePoint.”
Customers can download a 30 day, no-cost trial version at StoragePoint’s
website: www.storagepoint.com
About BlueThread Technologies, Inc.
A Microsoft Gold ISV, BlueThread Technologies(®), Inc. (www.bluethreadinc.com)
is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that specializes in Enterprise Content
Management (ECM) and system performance solutions exclusively for the
Microsoft(®) SharePoint(®) platform. With decades of ECM and years of
SharePoint experience, we develop highly-scalable solutions and tools which
are deployed at some of the largest organizations around the globe
Jeff Teper announced SharePoint Conference 09 award winners during his keynote address. BlueThread Technologies, Inc. was awarded the Innovative SharePoint ISV Award for StoragePoint. You can find more information about BlueThread Technologies and StoragePoint at http://www.storagepoint.com and http://www.bluethreadinc.com .
I was troubleshooting another issue on a client’s production server and ran across the following errors in the event log (Application Log). The error was occurring on a KnowledgeLake Viewer web service. After some quick searching I found Namwar Rizvi’s post on how to fix the problem. It appears that SharePoint output caching is trying to access the web service that is called by a web part which is causing the error to occur.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Office SharePoint Server
Event Category: Publishing Cache
Event ID: 5785
Date: 9/2/2009
Time: 9:29:56 AM
User: N/A
Computer: <WebFrontEnd>
Description:
Unable to connect publishing custom string handler for output caching. IIS Instance Id is ‘50319175′, Url is ‘http://xxxx.com/_layouts/klviewer/WebResource.axd?d=’.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
