Upcoming Speaking Engagements – Spring 2012
While the blog has been quieter than usual for the past couple of months, owing to a hectic schedule, I do have a number of speaking engagements coming up that I wanted to promote. All of them are...
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How To Upgrade SQL Server 2012 RC0 to Release (RTW or RTM)
If you’ve been working with the RC0 version of SQL Server 2012 (formerly code named “Denali”), you are likely aware that the final release is now available as an evaluation download here, or from MSDN...
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Upgrading SQL Server Reporting Services to 2012 In SharePoint Integrated Mode
That title could actually be longer…. SQL Server 2012 brings with it a number of key Business Intelligence features that apply directly to SharePoint environments. One of the major improvements is the...
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How To Automate SharePoint Report Creation With SSIS and SSRS
If you’ve used SQL Server Reporting Services to any great extent, you’ve likely encountered the need to generate reports automatically. This requirement may be for for delivery purposes, archival...
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Migrate Reporting Services from Native Mode To SharePoint Integrated Mode
I have previously written about upgrading and moving Reporting Services to SSRS/2008 R2/SP2010, and also on upgrading to the new Service application in 2012. Both of these deal with moving prior...
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Setting Up Reporting Services 2012 With SharePoint 2013
In my last post, I discussed the changes in Excel and PowerPivot as they pertain to SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server. This post will walk through the steps required to set up SQL Server Reporting...
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Installing and/or Upgrading a Multi-Server SQL Server Reporting Services 2012...
A few months ago I posted an article discussing how to upgrade integrated mode Reporting Services from 2008R2 to 2012. That article pretty well assumed a small SharePoint farm, with a single SharePoint...
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Troubleshooting and Removing a Failed Installation or Upgrade of PowerPivot...
I recently had the opportunity to perform an upgrade of PowerPivot from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012 for a customer with a relatively large SharePoint farm. Their farm consisted of 4...
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of being the guest presenter of a hands on webinar organized by Cloudshare. The topic was how to install and configure both SQL Server Reporting Services SharePoint Mode...
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Problems Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint and Reporting Services From SQL...
I recently performed an installation of both PowerPivot and Reporting services for a customer that was running SharePoint 2013. In preparation for the installation, the customer had made the SQL media...
View ArticleError 1603 Installing Reporting Services Add-In onto a New SharePoint Server
I had an interesting (annoying) error this week at a customer site. I was adding a new server to an existing SharePoint farm. This was a relatively new farm, installed a couple of months previously....
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The New Power BI – Now With Enterprise!
Yesterday Microsoft announced the next step in the evolution of Power BI. It’s getting quite a bit of attention, and rightly so for its aim of bringing Business Intelligence closer to users....
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Schedule Data Refresh for SSAS Connected Excel Workbooks with PowerPivot for...
Using Excel Services, SharePoint users have been able to share workbooks that are connected to back end data since SharePoint 2007. Typically, the connection is made to SQL Server, or to Analysis...
View ArticleLicense Requirements for SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint...
As I am keen to point out every opportunity I get, when installing SQL Server Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated mode, it is important to ensure that it is installed on a SharePoint server,...
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SQL Server Data Tools, BIDS, Visual Studio – What Do You Need?
The Business Intelligence design components of SQL Server have an identity crisis. What I’m talking about are the tools that are used by designers to create BI objects in the SQL Server Business...
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