re: Welcome to the official SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog!

ldusolier — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:55:50 GMT

Hi there, congrats for this new Blog!

How about use and configuration for BLOB External SharePoint Content?

And how about backing up sites with configured workflows (SPD, WSS defaults, etc), possible workarounds for the SharePoint Community

Regards,

Luis.

re: Welcome to the official SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog!

clake — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:35:30 GMT

Luis,

Thanks for your feedback! I'm in the process of locating the documentation for the areas you mentioned. Here's what I have so far:

Regarding use and configuration for BLOB External SharePoint Content, see "External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows SharePoint Services" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802976.aspx). This is actually developer documentation, but should contain what you need.

Unfortunately SharePoint Designer backups don't do workflows, but here's documentation for what does

Back up custom workflows: Create a solution package for your workflows. See: Workflows roadmap (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263262(TechNet.10).aspx), and Deploy customizations (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263205(TechNet.10).aspx).

Workflow management settings: part of the config DB. See Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409).

There's one other thing I'm checking into and will let you know if that applies.

Hope this helps!

Claudia Lake

SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Writer