SharePoint 2010 and RBS Remote BLOB Storage

Well I probably won’t be able to evaluate or use either of these products anytime soon, but I am quite impressed by what I am reading on Remote BLOB Storage products for SharePoint 2010.

MetaLogix’s StoragePoint in particular, and AvePoint’s product.

They allow you to define different levels/tiers of storage. This allows you to allocate the most actively used content to the fastest most expensive storage. While allocating the less frequently used or archived content to the slower less expensive storage.

All seamless to the users, you can now distribute your terabytes of SharePoint BLOB content across SQL, SAN, NAS, or even the Cloud. Planning this right could produce a substantial ROI for either product to show management.

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SharePoint - How to change width of rich text columns on forms?

If you want to change the width of any of the columns on the data entry forms (NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, DispForm.aspx) you need to know the name of their associated style in the core.css. You can do this several ways, use IE8 Developer Toolbar (F12), I prefer to use SharePoint Designer and look at the Apply Styles – Show Styles Based On Selection.

Then you again have a few ways you can change that. If you want the change global then you could create an Alternate CSS adding something similar to below in it.

When I need to change them it is usually just for the one page for one site, so I just add a style reference in the page.

The most bothersome one for me is always the rich text field. Here is the entry to widen the rich text field.

<style>

.ms-formbody span span div iframe, .ms-formbody span span table.ms-long{
width:600px; text-align:left;
}

#onetIDListForm, #onetIDListForm .ms-formbody, #onetIDListForm iframe[title="Rich Text Editor"]{
width:600px !important;
}
</style>

Of course you could use JavaScript, but I prefer to use CSS when possible.

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