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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

Technorati Tags: SQL Server,Report Builder,Rahul Desai

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

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:

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July 20, 2010   Posted in: General  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

Technorati Tags: Outlook Synchronization, Jeff DeVerter, SharePoint

February 16, 2010   Posted in: SharePoint, Tools, Tips & Utilities  No Comments

iiNet slays Hollywood in landmark piracy case…

Interesting judgement…read at the following link:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/iinet-slays-hollywood-in-landmark-piracy-case-20100204-ndwr.html?autostart=1



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February 3, 2010   Posted in: General  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