PowerPivot
PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions, facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment, and enables IT organizations to increase operational efficiencies through Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2-based management tools. More information at the following link:
July 21, 2010
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Download details: Productivity Hub 2010
Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support the ongoing end user training efforts.
The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection for 2007 and 2010 that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft also provides ongoing and updated content packs. More information on the link:
July 21, 2010
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Download details: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0
Just for the information…
Download details: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0
July 21, 2010
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Microsoft WebMatrix
WebMatrix is everything you need to build Web sites using Windows. It includes IIS Developer Express (a development Web server), ASP.NET (a Web framework), and SQL Server Compact (an embedded database). It streamlines Web site development and makes it easy to start Web sites from popular open-source apps. The skills and code you develop with WebMatrix transition seamlessly to Visual Studio and SQL Server. More information on the link below:
July 20, 2010
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Microsoft KittyHawk: A new tool to help non-programmers build .Net business apps
Nice to know, more information from Mary-Jo Foley @ the link below:
July 20, 2010
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The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive….
I got quiet a few of these error(s) while installing the Dynamics CRM Server 4.0. The setup fails often with something like:
I was successfully able to resolve this issue by adding and managing two registry entry key(s) – MaxUserPort and TCPTimedWaitDelay. By default, these entries does not exist.
Here are the steps:
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Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
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Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
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Right click Parameters, point to New, click DWORD Value, and then type MaxUserPort.
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Right click MaxUserPort, click Modify, and then type 64000 for Value data, and set the radio button next to Decimal.
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This value controls the number of dynamic ports that are available. The valid range for this value is 5,000-65,534. Specifically, this parameter controls the maximum port number that is used when a program requests any available user port from the system.
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Locate the following registry subkey:
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
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Right click Parameters, point to New, click DWORD Value, and then type TCPTimedWaitDelay.
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Right click TCPTimedWaitDelay, click Modify, type 30 for the Value data, and set the radio button next to Decimal.
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Note: This parameter determines the length of time that a connection stays in the TIME_WAIT state when it is closed. When a connection is in the TIME_WAIT state, the socket pair cannot be re-used.
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Exit Registry Editor.
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Restart the Microsoft Dynamics server installation process.
June 5, 2010
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Outlook Synchronization Error – 0×8000FFFF
Nice find from Jeff DeVerter, here for future reference!
Outlook Synchronization Error – 0×8000FFFF « Social-Point
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February 16, 2010
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iiNet slays Hollywood in landmark piracy case…
Interesting judgement…read at the following link:
February 3, 2010
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The Internet Explorer threat……
Link to an interesting article from Matthew Hardman …
http://blogs.msdn.com/the_hardman/archive/2010/01/20/the-internet-explorer-threat.aspx
January 20, 2010
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Configure People picker to….
Using the Stsadm command-line tool, we can configure the People Picker to display only users that are members of the site collection.
By this configuration, you can add any user from the directory if you know the user name; however, only users that are already added to the site collection are displayed in the People Picker.
The following command turns this configuration on:
Stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url http://server -pn "peoplepicker-onlysearchwithinsitecollection" -pv yes
and this turns the configuration off:
Stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url http://server -pn "peoplepicker-onlysearchwithinsitecollection" -pv no
This prevents partner users from browsing your user directory through the People Picker. Good stuff…
November 19, 2009
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