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• SharePoint 2010 Beta Deployment Error

  Day one of my SharePoint 2010 adventure and I'd like to share a workaround that I've found quite helpful as I've run across some minor difficulties in deploying my solution. After making changes to one or more web parts in my solution I'll... Posted Jan 13 2010, 11:07 AM by Michael Welch with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, SharePoint

• Bing Maps gets Streetside and much more ... move over Google

  Bing’s version of Google Street View, called Streetside has been launched. I had a play on Bing but I couldn’t find anywhere in England that I could use it yet. If you search on Bing Maps for the a US city, like New York for example you will see Bing... Posted Dec 02 2009, 04:27 PM by ChrisTurton with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Bing Maps, Silverlight, Streetside, Twitter, Photosynth

• Microsoft Virtual Labs – PowerPivot for Excel 2010

  Want to try out PowerPivot for Excel 2010 yourself, but don’t have time or resources to build a demo system? Now you can get 2 hours in a virtual lab (Powered by Hyper-V) to get to grips with it: Click here to connect to the Lab (IE Only since it needs... Posted Nov 19 2009, 11:35 AM by EdGillett with | with no comments Filed under: Office, Microsoft, SQL Server 2008, PowerPivot, Training, Hyper-V

• Microsoft Live Labs Pivot (No not that Pivot, the other Pivot)

  In a naming move that will surprise very few people that have seen generations of Microsoft naming conventions come and go (Numbers .. no random letters … no names … ah no wait, the numbers were better …), Microsoft Live Labs have just announced Microsoft... Posted Nov 19 2009, 09:55 AM by EdGillett with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Business Intelligence, WPF, Data Visualisation

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0 Released

  Yesterday at Tech·Ed Europe, Microsoft announced the official release of their Bing Maps v1.0 Silverlight control. This is great news as the Silverlight 3.0 offering of the Bing Maps control takes their existing Ajax control offering to the next level... Posted Nov 11 2009, 11:04 PM by MattFeltham with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft, Bing Maps, Silverlight

• Making public-facing SharePoint sites more accessible

  SharePoint is a great platform for building an intranet site quickly and making it easy for business users to add their own content. It is this ease of use for end users which also makes it ideal to use SharePoint for a public-facing website with its... Posted Sep 25 2009, 09:12 AM by MikeVinson with | with no comments Filed under: How To's, Microsoft, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Part 6 – Tweaking Your Search Results

  This blog series takes you through the necessary steps to configure MOSS for searching and indexing, followed by some sample code which will guide you through creating your own asp.NET web parts which you can install as features on your site. My previous... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:45 AM by MikeVinson with | with no comments Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Part 5 – Building a Search Results Web Part

  This blog series takes you through the necessary steps to configure MOSS for searching and indexing, followed by some sample code which will guide you through creating your own asp.NET web parts which you can install as features on your site. My previous... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:43 AM by MikeVinson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, Hyperion, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Part 4 – Building a Simple Search Input Web Part

  This blog series takes you through the necessary steps to configure MOSS for searching and indexing, followed by some sample code which will guide you through creating your own asp.NET web parts which you can install as features on your site. My previous... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:40 AM by MikeVinson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Part 3 – Configuring the Shared Services Provider

  This blog series takes you through the necessary steps to configure MOSS for searching and indexing, followed by some sample code which will guide you through creating your own asp.NET web parts which you can install as a features on your site. My previous... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:37 AM by MikeVinson with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Part 2 – Configuring Domain Accounts and the Office SharePoint Server Search Service

  This blog series takes you through the necessary steps to configure MOSS for searching and indexing, followed by some sample code which will guide you through creating your own asp.NET web parts which you can install as features on your site. My previous... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:29 AM by MikeVinson with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, SharePoint

• Building a Custom Search Web Part Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 1 - Overview

  Recently I embarked upon a piece of development work which required me to create a custom search web part. The main driver behind building this custom web part was making the search results page accessibility compliant. This required that the HTML output... Posted Aug 19 2009, 02:30 PM by MikeVinson with | with no comments Filed under: How To's, .NET, Microsoft, SharePoint

• SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

  Microsoft has announced a range of pre configured servers for BI applications, specifically for relational data warehouses but also including Analysis Services. Full details can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/fasttrack.aspx... Posted Feb 24 2009, 04:30 PM by IanMarritt with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Performance, SQL Server 2008, Data Warehousing

• SQL Server 2008 Part 2 - SSIS Persistent Lookups

  Over the coming weeks I’ll be writing a number of blogs detailing new features and enhancements to Microsoft’s BI platform shipped with SQL Server 2008. The 1 st series will focus on Integration Services. Altius has completed a number of high data volume... Posted Sep 16 2008, 12:46 PM by ShaunRyan with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SSIS, Microsoft, SQL Server 2008, SSIS 2008, Integration Services, Persistent Lookups

• Finding MS Query cell ranges in Excel

  Recently I've had the problem of picking up an Excel workbook which uses MS Query to connect to a SQL datasource and pull back lots of data in to literally hundreds of data grids. We had to point the grids at a new datasource, but the problem is that... Posted Mar 10 2008, 04:28 PM by JohnGamble with | with no comments Filed under: Office, How To's, Excel, Microsoft