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PerformancePoint? Is it still around? It is (in SharePoint 2010), and it should peak your interest if you are serious about dashboarding. The planning component is of course gone and I have to admit I never had too much faith in it. When comes to dashboards, Microsoft gives you two implementation options...
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Every now and then, I run into mysterious report timeouts. This time the client had a farm of two report servers integrated with MOSS with long running reports that would time out after two minutes or so. Normally, you shouldn't have such report monsters but life is not perfect, right? The client...
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User Access Control (UAC) is a feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 that prevents you from running applications with administrator rights even if you are a local admin on the box. Although I have to admit I hate UAC, I am convinced that it's better to have it around especially...
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So, how's this not cool? Running SharePoint integrated with Reporting Services on Windows Vista! I've always had a grudge with SharePoint that it doesn't run on a desktop OS. This forces you to install Windows Server or use a virtual image, both options far from ideal. When I went to TechEd...
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As I mentioned in a previous blog, one very important SSRS enhancement in the recently released SQL Server 2008 SP1 is Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce. This lets you reconfigure the native and SharePoint integration modes to let the user use Report Builder 2.0 instead of Report Builder 1.0. Note that in...
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Today, a co-worker declared a victory after struggling a few days to get Reporting Services 2008 SharePoint integration mode going on Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn). I helped of course J It all started with access denied error when attempting to deploy reports to SharePoint. Navigating to the WSS...
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A common issue when setting up Reporting Services integration with SharePoint is that the SharePoint add-in is not installed properly although the setup program doesn't indicate any issues. More than likely, the culprit is that the person who installed the add-in is not SharePoint Web farm administrator...
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A new week comes with new issues... I ran into an interesting issue today with Windows integrated security and SharePoint. I was troubleshooting an issue on a behalf of a Windows user that connects to an SSAS server. To repro the issue, I used the SharePoint "Sign in as a different user" feature...
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SharePoint always has a trick up its sleeve to surprise the innocent. I have to admit that I continue to be baffled by this technology. Not that I know too much about it, of course. But this thing is like the Pacific Ocean – web applications, site collections, sites, oh my. The further you go, the deeper...
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Dundas is currently developing a Dundas Chart for SharePoint 3.0/MOSS 2007 (currently in Beta). The chart is designed to work in ASP.NET and supports binding to ADO.NET datasets. A step-by-step tutorial for configuring the chart can be found here .
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As an update to my previous post , SQL Server 2005 SP2 is now officially available . The SP2 build is 9.00.3042. A SP2 landing page is available too that includes links to the SP2 release, KB articles, marketing information about the benefits of SP2. As a personal contributor to Service Pack 2 (mainly...
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It's time for my annual presentation for the Atlanta.MDF group. This time, the topic will be the SSRS-SharePoint integration mode with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 which I blogged about before. I've uploaded the PowerPoint slides to my website .