Dave Mc's Blog

  • A Quantum Of Computing is Online …

    I went up to Aberdeen in September to present to a BCS meeting “Quantum of Computing” talk, all about Quantum Computing.  It seemed ot go down pretty well, and they filmed it.  I was informed by Norman Bain who runs the BCS up there that the video has now been put online, so here’s the link… more …

  • “User Does Not Have Permission to Perform this Action”

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    One of those really annoying messages which gives little or no hint as to what user is having the issue.  I saw this when using ULS Viewer to check for other issues I was having with a SharePoint farm. IOWSTIMER.EXE (0x09A8) 0x0C20 SharePoint Foundation Database 5586 Critical Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error… more …

  • Powershell for PowerPivot Service Application …

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    Powershell for PowerPivot seems to be a bit of a mish-mash really.  There appears to be no way to provision a PowerPivot Service Application using Powershell which doesn’t use the Default Application Pool, and as far as I can see there appears to be no way to change the name of the Service Application… more …

  • PowerPivot and Reporting Services 2008 R2 SP1 Foible …

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    I made a bit of a mistake this week on a particular deployment I was involved in but it threw up a problem that if you do a single server deployment or a deployment of a certain topolgy you might run up against. I installed Reporting Services 2008 R2 on a server and configured… more …

  • Export the SharePoint 2010 Search Crawl Log

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    Needed to do this today, as I’d set up a FAST Search crawl of a  public-facing website, and there being a lot of errors I need to do some serious analysis of the issues.  Of course, there is no “Export to Excel” tab, which would have been great. Still after hunting around and deciding… more …

  • Adding a Non-Admin Server to FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Fails

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    I spent the best part of last week configuring FAST Search for SharePoint 2010, and along the way I came across an issue which at the time absolutely flummuxed me. On reflection I probably should have done a better job at diagnosing the issue, but time was tight and the pressure was on, so… more …

  • Don’t Believe Everything You Read …

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    Take this article in the Independent for instance in 2009, which predicted that 2010 would be the hottest year ever recorded for the world.  Well. It wasn’t, it was warm, but only as 2005 which was the second warmest on record. Not ever. Just  on record. The records go back about 300 years or… more …

  • Quantum Mechanics and Lamb Bhuna

    I had the opportunity to deliver my “Quantum of Computing” talk on Wednesday to the Edinburgh Branch of the British Computer Society (BCS) and I had a fantastic time.  The talk is very much a top level overview of Quantum Computing – NOT how to build a quantum computer, but what is it that… more …

  • Useful SharePoint Links …

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    This is really for me as I keep forgetting these links and loosing them! User Profile Configuration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx Excel Services Kerberos http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2466519 [updated 23 Jul 2011]  Migrating users between SQL Servers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992/   I’ll add others to this as I find them … Cheers Dave Mc more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

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 …