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SharePoint 2010 introduced a new authentication architecture called Claims Based Authentication SharePoint Claims-Based Identity http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee535242.aspx When using Claims Based Authentication for your SharePoint site, in...

WARNING:   This is based on pre-release software so things could change! I got started playing with the new Azure Reporting CTP and had an interesting experience.  I struggled getting to the Report Server URL for my Azure Instance.  I think...

When integrating Reporting Services with SharePoint, the authentication scheme for the SharePoint site can affect how Reporting Services works. I've been asked many time about how to tell if the SharePoint site is using Claims or is in Classic mode. Central...

Previous Post: SharePoint Adventures : Setting up Reporting Services with SharePoint Integration In the previous post, I walked through getting RS 2008 R2 Integrated with SharePoint 2010. What I didn't touch on was if you wanted to get this work with...

My colleges asked me if 'squirrely' is a technical term and for this post the answer is yes.  CSS is not going to deny support to customers but SQL Server was not tested in this scenario so you may have chased yourself up a tree, hence I use the...

I've had some questions in the past regarding Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint. For this post, I'm going to focus on SharePoint 2010. I'm also going to assume that you already have a SharePoint Farm setup. The examples I'm going to use will...

WARNING:  The series is based on pre-release software so things could change but I will attempt to provide you with the best information I can!  The enterprise edition of SQL Server has provided page level repair for quite some time now.  ...

Recently we worked with a customer who could not launch SSMS from a specific computer. We heard about this issue in the past from few others but never found the actual cause of this till now. So posting some of the information here as well as how we narrowed...

I had an interesting conversation with some other support engineers and a customer as it relates to the MAXDOP setting in the workload group. Inquiry: The customer set the MAXDOP=1 for the workload group but when looking at the showplan the parallel operators...