My wife had been snapping pictures of our kids left and right, and I had 131 JPEG files waiting for me to do something. Picture Manager’s failure to launch was obviously a concern, and I wanted to know why I was encountering problems … but more than anything, I simply wanted to get my pictures uploaded and tagged. I hit my browser’s back button, and tried the operation again. I waited, and waited … but the Microsoft Office Picture Manager never launched. Upon selecting the Upload Multiple Pictures menu item, SharePoint navigated to the infopage.aspx page shown above. SharePoint pops up a page that provides a handy “Go back to …” link that can then be used to navigate back to the library for viewing and working with the newly uploaded pictures. From there, the application itself takes care of rounding up the pictures that have been selected and getting them into the picture library within SharePoint. For those who happen to have Microsoft Office 2007 installed (as I do), this action normally results in the Microsoft Office Picture Manager getting launched as shown below.įrom within the Microsoft Office Picture Manager, uploading pictures is simply a matter of navigating to the folder containing the pictures, selecting the ones that are to be pushed into SharePoint, and pressing the Upload and Close button. I was getting set to upload a batch of pictures, so I did what I always do: I went into the Upload menu of the target pictures library in the site collection and selected Upload Multiple Pictures as shown on the right. The benefits of centralized, tagged, searchable, nicely presented content outweigh scalability and performance concerns for us.īack to the pictures site. Remember, though, that my wife and I are just two people – not a company of hundreds or thousands. I wouldn’t recommend what I’m doing to most clients – at least not until remote BLOB storage (RBS) gets here with SharePoint 2010. I do understand SharePoint BLOB (binary large object) storage and the implications (and potential effects) that large multimedia libraries can have on scalability. … and allow me a moment to address the concerns of the savvy architects and administrators out there. The site collection is, in effect, a huge multimedia repository … One of the site collections in my farm is used to store and share pictures that we take of our kids. The rebuild went relatively smoothly, and bringing my content databases over from the old farm posed no particular problems. I wanted to free up some cycles on my Hyper-V boxes, and I had an “open physical box” … so, I elected to rebuild my farm on a single, non-virtualized box running (the then newly released) Windows Server 2008 R2. My farm consisted of a couple of Windows Server 2003 R2 VMs (one WFE, one app server) that were backed by a non-virtualized SQL Server. Several months ago, I decided that a rebuild of my primary MOSS environment here at home was in order.
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