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Month: January 2011

The definitive BCS in SharePoint 2010 book now available

The definitive BCS in SharePoint 2010 book now available

My friend and colleague Scot Hillier has just published his new book with his co-author, Brad Stevenson, called “Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010”.  Scot brought me a copy today and from the brief bits that I have had an opportunity to read so far (plus what I was privilege to review prior to the printing), it far exceeds the expectations one might have for simply being THE BOOK (yes I know there is only one out there) on…

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How to: Fix the "Unable to access SharePoint sites from the localhost" problem

How to: Fix the "Unable to access SharePoint sites from the localhost" problem

Ever try to access a page on your SharePoint site from your web front end only to get prompted for a login that never lets you through? The issue happens when dealing with sites that Integrated Authentication and have names that are mapped to the loopback address.  Translation:  if you are using Windows with Claims or Classic Mode web applications  and you are trying to connect from the server, this is you. The LoopbackCheck security feature is enabled by default…

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Update: PowerPivot in Windows with Claims Authentication on SharePoint 2010 case

Update: PowerPivot in Windows with Claims Authentication on SharePoint 2010 case

We had a second great discussion with Lee Graber and Venky Veeraraghavan and our MS Account Team today.  They are actively working on getting a solution to allow PowerPivot to work with Windows Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010, as I talked about in my previous post.  They are expecting to down select an approach, from 4 down to 1, by the end of the week and give us an update on what the timeline will look like.This has been a…

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SharePoint 2010 & SQL 2008 R2 build numbers and helpful patching links

SharePoint 2010 & SQL 2008 R2 build numbers and helpful patching links

In an effort to make life simpler I have compiled a short list of useful link to build numbers and patching sites for SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 R2. The Microsoft SharePoint Updates PagesSharePoint 2010 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx SharePoint 2007- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx This is your official sites for downloading the SharePoint updates from Microsoft.  Highly useful rather than waiting on the blogger community to send you a link, or get the TechNet bulletin, your carrier pigeon to arrive, or any of the…

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All PowerPivot Features supported only in Classic Mode Authentication

All PowerPivot Features supported only in Classic Mode Authentication

Surprised?  I was this week as well.  I have had a case open with Microsoft since October that we have been playing with back and forth trying to figure out why automated refreshing of a PowerPivot workbook wasn’t working.We let the case go off and on for a quite a while because in the opening days we found that if we ran the PowerPivot Service Application Pool in the context of the farm admin account, that manually refreshing the data…

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