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August 2008 - Posts
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Just saw a post by Jason here about http://www.sqlservervideos.com/ . I immediately went to check it out and wasn't disappointed. I especially liked the fact that they had 400 level videos. So what are you waiting for? Go check it out! Read More...
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I was recently working on a SharePoint Business Data Catalog (BDC) project and needed to configure the single sign-on (SSO) functionality of SharePoint. For anyone not familiar with the SSO functions in BizTalk or SharePoint that I am talking about, I Read More...
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Body: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 All About MOSS Search: Better Collaboration, Deeper Context and Improved Access to Information CIOs and IT Managers: Learn how companies use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to make it easy to find and share information Read More...
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Take two of the Magenic webinar that Aaron Lowe and I did early this year. We will be doing the presentation one more time for anyone that missed it the first time. This is not a technical presentation like the one on October 15 will be. We will be define Read More...
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I will be co-presenting a Magenic webinar with Aaron Lowe one of our SQL Aces out of Chicago on October 15. We are going to be talking about all of the awesome enhancements that are part of SQL Server 2008 such as Change Data Capture (CDC), Data Profiling, Read More...
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Next month there will be a one-day event on Saturday, September 20 from 8 to 5. This is a great opportunity to network, learn, and win prizes. I will be presenting two sessions - SSIS Performance Tuning and SSAS 2008 Designer Enhancements and DMVs. Hope Read More...
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The next local BI Special Interest Group (BI-SIG) in MN is coming up on September 12 from 2:30 to 6:30. I will be co-presenting with Joe Beeck from GfK on 'Spreadmart to Data Mart Conversion'. Here is the topic description: Everybody probably has spreadmarts Read More...
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Working with CodePlex on one of the projects I was faced with dilemma – download TFS explorer to get the latest source code from their TFS server, or… I was about to give up and download/run a 300 TFS Explorer on my latest development VPC Read More...
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Body: So I'm building a deployment package for the world's most advanced collaboration platform (i.e. MOSS), and what do I get? An error because I am specifying a path+filename that is longer than 100 characters. Didn't we learn when we left 8.3 filenames Read More...
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Body: For all of you Chicago area SharePointers, there's a day of SharePoint sessions at Codeapalooza on September 6th, at IIT in Wheaton, IL. Take a look at http://www.codeapalooza.com/agenda.htm . --Michael Category: SharePoint – WSS and MOSS Published: Read More...
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Just doing a little blog reading this morning and noticed that Darren Gosbell posted an entry yesterday stating that version 1.3 of BIDS Helper is now available for download. Some of the new features that are available which I briefly mentioned in my Read More...
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Body: Our current version management approach is based on fear and risk mitigation. The versioning I’ve been dealing with is for Features for workflow solutions. For example, we produce V1 of a workflow. It has GUIDs all over – for the solution, the feature, Read More...
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Yesterday I learned about a resource for configuring virtual BizTalk instances in conjunction with the use of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. This guide is available on MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768518.aspx ) or via a white paper download. Read More...
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I recently wrote a blog post about avoiding some of the pitfalls of installing BizTalk Server 2006 R2 onto Windows Server 2008. One of the gaps in my post was that I did not mention all of the roles and features that I used when configuring Windows Server Read More...
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Just got this email from the SQL PASS Headquarters and wanted to share the information if you were not aware of the beta exam offer: We are happy to announce the dates for 2 upcoming Beta exams. The first is Beta Exam 71-452: Designing a Business Intelligence Read More...
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Body: This is reported by my friend Ralph . He and I are working at the same client right now, and he is responsible for MOSS Farm Administration there. Monday and Tuesday of last week we installed the Infrastructure Updates in a 32-bit virtual machine. Read More...
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I'm speaking at the Wisconsin SQL Server User Group in Waukesha, WI this Tuesday (8/12). If you are interested, RSVP to SQLDBA@new.rr.com Presentation: SQL Server 2008 – What do you want to know about it? SQL Server 2008 introduces a framework for collecting, Read More...
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Share this post : Transparent data encryption (TDE) performs real-time I/O encryption and decryption of the data and log files. Encryption of the database file is performed at the page level. The pages in an encrypted database are encrypted before they Read More...
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The SQL Server 2008 product went RTM yesterday afternoon and everyone is extremely excited for the new release and the blogging really picked up all day yesterday. The new August SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack has now been released here which has links Read More...
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Well it looks like SQL 2008 RTM'd at TechEd in South Africa. Take a look at Aaron Bertrand's post or sqlmag Read More...
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Body: I just got a copy of "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices" by "Ben Curry and Bill English, with the Microsoft SharePoint Teams". Last night (7/30/2008) I perused the table of contents and read all of Chapter Read More...
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Body: Here's a visual overview of installing the 32-bit version of the Infrastructure Updates for WSS. These are a prerequisite for the MOSS Infrastructure Updates of course. Instructions are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx Read More...
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The new Gauge data region is most often used to provide a high-level summary of your data by highlighting key performance indicator (KPI) values. The gauge uses a pointer to show a single value. You can add a range to highlight a subset of values on your Read More...
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Susan is a developer on a large team writing applications for a major financial institution – She's frustrated. Her portion of the application has to interface with a third-party service that handles check images and imports the associated account Read More...
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Here are a few tips I encountered when working on an AS2 and EDI project. You will want to avoid using an EdiSend on the send side of a 2-way port in which the receive is As2EdiReceive because you will encounter EDI assembler errors where the SOAP messages Read More...
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