Updated: You should not register the trace provider on every request. Use a singleton to check for registration. Found a great example on how to write to the SharePoint trace log on msdn. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979522.aspx . This...

SharePoint by default does not support taking IE out of quirks mode. This is discussed in a great blog entry by Heather Solomon . Not enforcing a dtd through the DOCTYPE element in the default.master (for example DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...

Install SQL Server 2005 - Reporting Services Only Install SQL Server Service Pack 2 Install Sharepoint (as WFE)- SKU (Enterprise Edition, Standard,etc..) has to match the other SKUs in the farm Run the Sharepoint Server Configuration (do not...

Better late than never - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939942

If you've been trying to put a transparent image into reporting services and have not been able to make the background transparent i share your pain. Luckily i found a solution. 1. Place a rectangle where you would place the image 2. Place the image...

The following blog has a great step by step on how to install Analysis Services Cubes from the Command Line

Automating Report Deployment in Reporting Services can be challenging. SharePoint offers many modes of deployment of files. Unfortunately the out of the box deployment for SharePoint does not allow for automatic hook up of data sources. So you can deploy...

There an excellent post on this blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/edhild/archive/2007/04/17/how-to-connect-web-parts-during-site-provisioning.aspx ) about how to connect Web Parts in sharepoint. With a little change you can connect filters using the same technique...

I ran into a pretty unique situation with crawl rules and search. Here's what happened... I configured crawl rules to ensure that the crawler does not crawl the internet. I started by adding an inclusion of *://*.somecompany.com/* to include...

Had some install issues turning on SSO, here's what i found... The install instructions on Technet are mostly correct with the caveat that inorder to create the database you have to login as the SSO account to the first server where the service is...

Here's what i encountered in the latest install, hope this benefits the community Error Encountered: Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry...