I’m writing this post with great pleasure to announce that our corporate site (http://www.solidq.com) went online today with SharePoint Server 2010. I’m really happy with that and this is going to be a very good example for other Microsoft Partners as well.

We see lot of organizations who do consulting on SharePoint, they have their web site running on either open source or any other technology. But we decided to set an example to our customers and partners by hosting our site with the technology we promote. We have our global site running on top of SharePoint Server 2010 and this exercise was started when the product was in beta.

I’m glad that now I have a real-life example to show to all my students apart from Microsoft SharePoint site. My salute to our IT Support team for their great effort.

Use of digital media in web sites has increased dramatically the last few years and SharePoint has made major investments to support the delivery of digital media in SharePoint sites in the 2010 product.

Introduction of new Video ContentType, Audio ContentType and Image ContentType was a great investment in the area of Digital Asset Support in SharePoint server 2010. Introduction of Silverlight media player and ability to seek, cache and progressive download was the biggest investment in the area of Digital Asset Support.

To have all the above mentioned features, the minimum requirement is installation and configuration of IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling. Though BLOB Cache and Silverlight is not mandatory to have, IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling is compulsory to provide Digital Asset Support in SharePoint Server 2010.

Great, how do we install and configure IIS 7.0 Bit Rate Throttling?

I found following blog post was really interesting and descriptive enough for anyone to get a clear picture about this:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/148/bit-rate-throttling-configuration-walkthrough/