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The following is a good post on using the PowerShell commands for backup and restore in SharePoint 2010.  It covers both farm level and granular backup, as well as details on how scheduling and automation work with SharePoint backups using PowerShell. http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/archive/2011/05/18/backup-and-restore-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell.aspx

Below is an article which discusses how to setup and use an unattached content database in SQL Server and Central Admin,  It brings up several issues that you should be aware of when performing such a task. http://blog.sharepoint-recovery.com/2010/06/25/sharepoint-2010-unattached-content-database-recovery-not-recovery-just-export/

The following is a really good write-up on how to configure SharePoint 2010 search crawl databases, crawl components, host distribution, and more.  It’s valuable information to know about how search works in SharePoint 2010. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/04/16/search-2010-architecture-and-scale-part-1-crawl.aspx

I found this great technet article on how to configure RBS (step by step) with SharePoint 2010.  It’s a great exercise to run through this and set it up for yourself in a VM prior to actually doing a real installation. http://blogs.technet.com/b/pramodbalusu/archive/2011/07/09/rbs-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx

This is oddly useful information when you start to run into a situation where you’d like to scale a SharePoint server, but find nuances that it may be a standalone installation. Look in the registry under: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS" There will be an entry for "ServerRole" which will tell you the installation type Stand …

Earlier today I needed a way to extract all the WSPs from a Production farm and copy them to a second farm (UAT).  I found this article and PowerShell script which did exactly what I needed.  Enjoy! http://www.sharepointbleached.com/2011/03/extract-wsp-solutions-from-sharepoint.html

This is a good (albeit poor-English) article on how to setup cascading dropdowns in InfoPath 2010.  http://basquang.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/cascading-drop-down-list-in-sharepoint-2010-using-infopath-2010/

I found an excellent post on the benefits and trade-offs of using RBS with SharePoint.  Take a read below. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mossbiz/archive/2011/07/09/sharepoint-2010-rbs-benefits-trade-offs.aspx

The Problem(s) I recently came across a situation where using SharePoint Designer 2010, I was unable to connect to my server. A second symptom of (what I believe to be) the same issue, was that I was unable to add a new user as a member to a site-collection, other than the root site collection …

The goal here was to remove 2 menu items from the context menu on a document library, without affecting the other menu items.  The menu (before changes) is below. Original menu, before any changes   The goal was to remove the two menu items “SMS Document Approval” and “Publish a Major Version”.  The first was …