If you are like me then you like to reinstall Windows on your laptop every few months to keep things fresh and running smoothly. That or your even more like me and you download some beta version of software and install it on your laptop rather than a VM and screw something up to an unrepairable state. Either way Windows is being reinstalled. I have a laptop without an optical drive in it. The vast majority of the time I don’t mind as I pretty much use ISO files exclusively. This is a probl...
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While some people may consider this topic off limits the fact remains that more and more companies are adopting Apple devices, namely the iPad, for use in their organizations. In the last quarterly earnings call from Apple they revealed that more than 80% of fortune 100 companies and more than 60% of fortune 500 companies are now using iOS devices in their organizations. Regardless of the amount of implementation behind those numbers we are going to have to plan our reporting around the use of p...
If you have used SSIS to move data from something like Access or more commonly Excel, it is a good possibility you have seen this error at some point: Error: The ‘Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0 ‘ provider is not registered on the local machine. The reason this error shows up is because the proper components are not present that are required to move data from Office files (I’m looking at you Access and Excel). If you do development on a laptop or desktop then there is a very good chan...
PowerPivot report returns the following error from Excel Services: The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be delegated. The following connection failed to refresh: PowerPivot Data When viewing a PowerPivot workbook in SharePoint 2010 the report is visualized using Excel Services since ultimately the report is inside an Excel workbook. The root cause of this error is that Excel Services is unable to get a valid Windows account from whoever is running the re...
With SQL Server 2012 right around the corner and Release Candidate 0 already out there I'm sure you will all want to see the cool new stuff that SharePoint has to offer. There are a number of changes coming to SharePoint with the SQL 2012 release including the much anticipated PowerView . A number of enhancements have been made to the installation process as well as the consolidation of Reporting Services for SharePoint integration; which is now all handled through Central Administration rather ...