My friend and co-mischief maker, Cornelius J. van Dyk, & I were honored to be able to present last night at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group, and as promised below you will find a link to our deck. Thanks to everyone who came out to hear us speak! Heavy Metal PowerPivot Redux
The big news of the day in the technology world… no, not the Blackberry outage… no, not iOS 5 being released… the big news about SQL Server Code Name: “Denali” becoming official SQL Server 2012! Product release is slated for the first half of 2012 (not specifically Q1 as many of us had hoped) Project Crescent has been rebranded as Power View and announced that there will be a browser based version that will work on iOS & Android devices,…
My good friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, & I are presenting one of our favorite topics at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group this evening, Heavy Metal PowerPivot! For those of you who have seen us present this topic in the past, you might be asking “ok, I’ve seen it before, why should I attend?”. The answer is simple: SQL Server 2012 CTP3. We will be demoing the new installation experience as well as a few of the new features…
The Office Sustained Engineering Team has announced that Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2007 & SharePoint 2007 will be coming some time during 2011 Q4. This appears to be the last major update to the 2007 client & server stack as the team states: “We are offering this release in preparation for the April 2012 end of mainstream support for the 2007 client and server products. The October 2011 release provides a 6-month window to test and deploy the…
I was watching the news last night and a story came on about a man in Manchester, NH (about 30 minutes from my house) who heard a noise that was coming from his backyard, and when he turned on this lights he found a Moose in his backyard. The moose was spooked by the sudden flood of light and charged through his fence and directly into the man’s swimming pool. The man from didn’t have many options going in to…
This was referred to this morning in the keynote at SharePoint Conference 2011 and appears to be a really cool solution. Source: Visio.Microsoft.com “SharePoint Network Topology Diagram Add-in leverages Visio Services to deliver a near real time intuitive rendering of the status of SharePoint farm’s infrastructure and associated services. Visio Graphics services – A key part of SharePoint 2010, enables customers to share their dynamic data driven Visio diagrams and dashboards within SharePoint. This helps extend the reach of valuable…
Ever have trouble remembering when you last deployed a specific solution? Now, none of us would ever allow an environment to be uncontrolled and let people willy-nilly install solutions, but in the real world sometimes things slip through our well controlled documentation and we need a hand. For those of us with more than 5 farm solutions hunting and pecking for the last installed date can be problematic. One of my colleagues (at this point I am forgetting who, so…
I spent a good portion of my day watching phones update today. My iPhone 3GS had finally ground to a halt and I decided to go back to baseline and reimage it. It took almost 2 hours for my iPhone to reinstall the base iOS and restore a backup, but at the end it is performing like a new phone. I highly recommend doing that every 6 months to improve performance of your iPhone. The really big news of the…
Some people have noticed the unusual lull in my posting. Others are probably wondering why in the world they are still reading after the title doesn’t have anything to do with SharePoint. The out of the norm silence is due to several things happening in my personal world, which I normally try to keep out of my blogging, but since this has a direct correlation to my SharePoint community involvement I have decided to share it here. Since my vacation…
I ran into an issue today where I needed to quickly pull the MaximumFileSize setting for every web application across my farms. I found lots of blogs that told me how to change the setting, but none that told me how to pull the information from the farm before I change it. The UI method for this is simple, but cumbersome if you have multiple web apps and multiple farms. Simply go to Central Administration|Application Management|Manage Web Application and select…