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The “Golden Age” of Science Fiction
My wife and myself have been having a clear out. Our children are grown, but throughout their formative years, we kept most stuff out of harm’s way safely secured in the loft. One things I knew was up there but now I’ve had a chance to savour again is my collection of Science Fiction Books, more …
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Connecting to SharePoint Embedded Database
Other people ave already blogged this, but I’ve put this here so I don’t forget! Seeing as apparently you need AD for anything other than Standalone Sharepoint installation on SharePoint 2010 (BTW, I haven’t verified this myself, just read it around the blogsphere …) , I thought I’d dig out Sourav Dutta’s great link… more …
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Sharepoint 2010 Beta is Out at Last …
Twitters been full of it, loads of people have been blogging it, hey if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, and if you are the one person who read’s this then you can download the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta right here …. if you have an MSDN subscription that is … Cheers … more …
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SharePoint Starter No 1 – What is SharePoint?
A question I often get asked is “What is SharePoint?”, it’s a question that is hard to answer in a sentence, even Steve Ballmer found difficulty doing it during the keynote at the latest SharePoint Conference. My best answer? It’s a Platform for building Enterprise Applications. A number of you who know SharePoint may… more …
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Connecting to Analysis Services using Kerberos
Quite often at Ridgian we deploy Analysis Services as part of a BI Solution integrated with SharePoint. We now always use Reporting Services in Integrated Mode and as a result we always configure our farms to use kerberos as the Single Sign On (SSO) method. If you do the normal configuration for Kerberos,… more …
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Authentication Across SQL Linked Servers
I’ve used linked server in SQL Server on many occasions, but one of the mysteries to me is getting the Security right. Most times I’ve gotten away with simply declaring a common SQL User, which is one heck of a cop out I know, but hey, it works. We were faced with an… more …
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Configuring Sharepoint to use Excel Services
If you’ve tried configuring SharePoint to correctly use Excel Services in a Farm under Kerberos, you know that it can be a bit fiddly. Essentially the steps are: Configure Kerberos correctly for the Farm, and ensure it is working correctly. The defacto blog entry is probably this one from Martin Kearn. Once… more …
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Cloning a SharePoint Farm leads to “Access Denied”
Had an interesting problem yesterday with a SharePoint Farm. A customer of ours had cloned their prodution SharePoint farm using VMWare and then renamed the servers to avoid a naming clash. Quite correctly they had removed their WFE from the farm and were trying to reconnect the WFE back onto the renamed Database… more …
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Global Cooling rears it’s head …
If you’re old enough to remember the early 1970’s you may remember the then dire predictions of the scientists that we were heading into an ice age. Why? Well, because we’d had a couple of decades of cooling temperatures, despite the burning of fossil fuels. Sound familiar? I didn’t believe it at the… more …
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SharePoint on balance doesn’t suck after all …
I knew it …. http://furuknap.blogspot.com/2009/10/sharepoint-sucks-and-heres-why-i-still.html more …
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