Houston SharePoint User Group

A Rendering Template is an ASP.NET user control that renders what’s inside its tags.  SharePoint controls including web parts use Rendering Templates.  The out of the box List Form web parts (DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, NewForm.aspx) use Rendering Templates.  In this session, I will show you what Rendering Templates are and how you can use them.  I will give a couple of demos showing how easy they are to use for branding and dive a little deeper to take on more interesting use cases like Field level security.  I will compare/contrast this approach and “other” practices of customizing list forms.

Storing SharePoint content (BLOBs) in the SQL database poses many issues:

 

•       Improper use of SQL to store unstructured content

•       Overuse of Tier 1 storage

•       DR, Indexing, and Maintenance tasks fall outside of operational windows

•       Planning, rollout, and on-going maintenance complexity as a resulting from Microsoft guidelines

•       Inability to meet regulatory compliance requirements

 

All of these factors increase risk and cost to your SharePoint environment and projects.  We’ll discuss various approaches to moving Content (BLOBs) out of SQL while increasing SharePoint  performance and backup timeframes. Business benefits, cost savings, and ROI will be discussed as well as a live‐demonstration of relocating SharePoint content to Cloud platforms.