There has been some confusion around whether or not you can crawl PDFs with SharePoint Foundation 2010. The answer to the question is yes, you can, without any other products. Numerous articles and blog posts say Search Server is necessary, but fortunately...

Just a warning to everyone out there. RBS is a good way to keep the size of your content databases at a more manageable level. Please realize that this doesn’t get your around the 200GB limit. The content on the file share plus the content DB still needs...