Archive for the ‘Tools, Tips & Utilities’ Category

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:

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July 21, 2010   Posted in: SQL Server, SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

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:

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July 21, 2010   Posted in: SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities, Training  No Comments

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

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July 21, 2010   Posted in: SQL Server, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

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:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-kittyhawk-a-new-tool-to-help-non-programmers-build-net-business-apps/6853?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE



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July 20, 2010   Posted in: Tools, Tips & Utilities, Visual Studio  No Comments

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.

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June 5, 2010   Posted in: Dynamics CRM, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

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   Posted in: SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

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



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January 20, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: General, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

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.

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November 19, 2009   Posted in: SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

On Time, in Control…

We had a team training from ADAPT Training Solutions on “On Time, In Control Project”, amazing set of things you can do to manage your productivity using Outlook 2007…sincerely recommend this guys…

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November 18, 2009   Posted in: Personal, Project Management, Talman news, Tools, Tips & Utilities, Training  No Comments

Checking in multiple files using SharePoint Designer

If multiple files have been checked out and you want to check them quickly (in SharePoint document libraries), it  can be easily achieved in few quick steps using SharePoint Designer 2007 (rather than using the inbuilt check-in feature), here are the steps:

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November 13, 2009   Posted in: SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments