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…
My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in Chicago held August 8-10 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. (Anyone sensing a reoccurring theme here? Any guesses which conference we are speaking at in early November? Here’s a hint! ) We will be bringing back our acclaimed ITPro Pre-Conference “SharePoint Collaboration Bootcamp” plus presenting three sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot”, “Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You…
My good friend Cornelius J. van Dyk and I just completed our San Antonio, TX stop of our speaking circuit. We promised we’d publish the slide decks from our Pre-Con Boot Camp and our three sessions at the SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast Tour. Here you go! SharePoint Connections Pre-Con Boot Camp Wish Id Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint Insanity Demystified Heavy Metal PowerPivot Time is money. How SharePoint Logging will save you both We had a great time presenting, meeting everyone,…
My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in San Antonio held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency Hill County Resort & Spa. We will be teaching the ITPro Pre-Conference “SharePoint Collaboration Bootcamp” plus presenting three sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot”, “Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You Both!”, and “Wish I’d Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint Insanity Demystified”. All 3 of these sessions promise to be fresh…
My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in Boston held April 25-27 at the Marriott Long Wharf. We will be presenting two sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot” and “SharePoint Logging – The Undiscovered Country”. Both sessions promise to be fresh and exciting so come out and see us if you’re anywhere in the Boston area during that time. We hope to see you there!
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…
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…