Author: David Williams (Microsoft) Contributor & Reviewer: Matthew Robertshaw (Microsoft) Ever wondered how volatile your Buffer Pool is? Keeping you awake at night? Page Life Expectancy (PLE) is the best indication of how volatile your Buffer Pool...

Author: Benjamin Wright-Jones (Microsoft) Contributors: Karthika Raman (Microsoft) Technical Reviewers: Guy Bowerman (Microsoft), Sanjay Nagamangalam (Microsoft) I have recently been exploring the use IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to provide cloud...

Overview Over the past couple of months I have occasionally been losing my PowerPivot Slicers in Excel when using the PowerPivot 2012 add-in. I have now managed to put together a repro for the issue and will outline this below. The issue has been...

Overview In some environments it is not possible to install Dashboard Designer using the normal process (i.e. allow it to install automatically when first opened from SharePoint). Some Citrix environments for example have permissions that prevent ClickOnce...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author: Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This post is part of a series of posts describing the authentication methods supported by the SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence service applications...

Author : Chris Bailiss Technical Reviewers (Kerberos/Claims): James Noyce, Paul Williams Introduction This series of posts provides an overview of the authentication methods and associated functionality supported by the Business Intelligence Service...

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New whitepapers recently released on MSDN focused on Enterprise Data Warehousing with Microsoft technologies http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh147624.aspx

It is possible to create custom reports, using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, against the System Center 2007 R2 data warehouse.  Reports can be designed in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services to provide the end user with a better representation...

I had unfortunately picked up the (bad) habit of debugging my SSIS packages by using messagebox.show at design time.  The SSIS data flow Script component does not allow debugging using this approach so I had to find an alternative.  I discovered...

Author : Benjamin Wright-Jones Contributors : David Brown, Akshai Mirchandani Technical Reviewers : Steve Pontello, Alessandro Recino This article describes the lessons learned as a result of a deployment using ProClarity Web Professional and ProClarity...