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  • SharePoint Visio Services – Getting Them To Run!

      One of my favourite new features of SharePoint 2010 is Visio Services, so as soon as I had my SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 installed, I did a quick diagram in Visio 2010 and published it to SharePoint. I kept getting an error message saying "Visio Web Access is not available on this site"… more …

  • Global Warming Email Scandal?

      Wow! I’d missed this in amongst all the Sharepoint 2010 fun.   It looks like the East Anglia Uni centre for Climate Research has had it’s emails released. Hacked is the word used but apparently it’s looking like a whistle-blower job.  Roy Spencer in this blog entry gives some of the details and links where… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 Rocks With Silverlight …

      Is SharePoint 2010 the first Microsoft product to really rock with Silverlight? At last a product which doesn’t just use Silverlight for displaying the enevitable ‘bouncing balls’ … I was a bit gobsmacked when I clicked on the link shown below ….   and lo and behold, I saw the following Silverlight screen for selecting… more …

  • SharePoint 2010 – A First Install using Local Accounts

    There is probably going to be a few of these blog posts around, but I though I’d get in my effort whilst I can.  I downloaded the installer from MSDN with no issue, and spent a few moments considering which type of install I should do.  According to a few blog posts I’d read,… more …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Connecting to Analysis Services using Kerberos

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      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 …

  • 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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Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …