I have been very fortunate over the last several years in that I've had many opprtunities to architect many extremely high scale SharePoint systems. Everything from your standard 3 million document Imaging Repository to systems with 10's and even more than 100 million documents (thanks to FAST ESP!)
As I look back on SharePoint 2003 and even to existing SharePoint 2007 solutions, there have definately been several challenges as we design systems that can handle the millions of documents we throw at them. So it is with great pleasure that I am able to present my 4 favorite improvements in SP2010 that handle virtually ALL of my previous challenges.
Oh yeah... For anyone who might have read this series introduction when I initially released it, I was originally going to include a post regarding the Managed Metadata service. Then it occured to me that while this is an important feature for ECM in SharePoint 2010, it doesn't really improve performance. So... I yanked it. I'll do a separate post on Managd Metadata at some point.
So without further delay, my four part (ok... three if you discount the introduction!) series on SP2010 Scalability:
- Introduction
- SharePoint Search
- Remote BLOB Storage RBS
- Inline Records Management
I hope this provides hope for those of you who dream of massive SharePoint 2010 implementations like I do!