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Archive for March, 2010

The single-server out of the box SharePoint 2010 installation uses SQL Express, which comes with a 4 GB limit.  This is in contrast to SharePoint 2007 which used the Windows Internal Database, a version of SQL Express with no size limit.  If you’re upgrading an existing environment or planning to import a bunch of files, you may easily hit this limit.
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When you create new sites in SharePoint 2010, you may find that “Master Page” is missing from the site settings, and there’s no apparent easy way to change the master page, outside of SharePoint Designer.  This happens when the publishing features are not enabled, and is easy to fix by just enabling the right features.
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Simultaneous editing for collaboration is one of the most hyped features in Office 2010, however it’s only supported over the web in the Excel 2010 web app.  For Word and PowerPoint simultaneous editing, you’ll need to have the full client versions of the Office 2010 products.  This will likely be a disappointment for people who were hoping to collaborate on documents from kiosks anywhere in the world.


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There has been a lot of chatter in the market about SharePoint 2010.    Kraft Kennedy is currently running the SharePoint 2010 Beta, and is in the process of seeing which features could most benefit our clients.  One feature that is not installed out-of-the-box (if there is such a thing as “out-of-the-box” with SharePoint) is the suite of Microsoft Office Web Apps.  For details on installing the Web Apps on your SharePoint 2010 Beta, please check out this technote.   This post is designed to show a little of what the Word 2010 Web App looks like, and how this can change your Intranet forever.


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