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Now that SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012 SP1 have been released I thought about revisiting my post on how to install the BI features of SharePoint 2013. As in the previous post I am installing the bits on a fully updated Windows Server 2008 R2 machine...

I have got a lot of questions on how to install and run SQL Server on Windows Server 2012. Now we have released a knowledge base article that outlines the required software prerequisites for running SQL Server on Windows Server 2012. The article talks...

Now during SQL PASS they have announced the availability of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). You can find the download here . There are two options for the download either a slipstream package or a standalone installation package.   As part...

During my talk at SQLRally Nordic Bringing maps to SQL Server I showed how to geocode data in SSIS. The way I did this was to create a custom component in SSIS. In this post I will show how this was done. The first thing that I did was to create...

I have been thinking about writing a post about this for a long time. However now a new whitepaper was released that explains how to configure a BI environment in Azure. It is called SharePoint Deployment on Windows Azure Virtual Machines and describes...

Be sure to attend the PASS SQLRally 2012 in Copenhagen. You have the opportunity to listen to the best speakers in the industry, see http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2012/nordic/Speakers.aspx for a list of speakers. I got my session called B(r)inging...

The development team have released a new blog post outlining the improvements that have been made for PPS in SharePoint 2013 and is asking for feedback on what other priorities they should focus on. Read more at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/performancepoint...

I have now added a new post on how to install the BI features in the released version of SharePoint 2013 you can find it here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/querysimon/archive/2012/11/26/installing-the-bi-features-of-sharepoint-2013.aspx Since the release...

One of the new options that you have in Excel 2013 and Power View is to show data on maps. This is a feature that is awaited for, most data in the BI world contains some sort of geographical information. This could be sales territories, customer...

Please note I am not a member of the Dev team. My posts are just things that I have found when playing with the new Office bits. My findings may be inaccurate or an error on my part. After installing Excel 2013 you may would like to create a new workbook...

In my previous post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/querysimon/archive/2012/06/17/bi-data-on-maps-in-sql-server-2012.aspx I described how to create a Reporting Services report that contains custom map data. One of the drawbacks with the mapping component in SSRS...

I often get questions around how to show business intelligence data on maps in the Microsoft BI stack. Some people thinks that we do not support this for the entire world but only for US. I think that this misunderstanding comes from the fact that the...

More information can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sqlserver/

  I got my session submission accepted to SQL Rally Nordic. I will be speaking about how to build a forecasting and planning solution based on SQL Server, Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010. If you have the opportunity to attend you can come around and...

  If you followed my earlier post ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/querysimon/archive/2011/07/18/installing-sharepoint-2010-together-with-denali-ctp3.aspx ) about installing Denali CTP3 together with SharePoint 2010 then you will find that Reporting Services...

Now that Denali CTP3 is out I would like to setup a complete demo environment on one of my VM’s for a base image I suggest that you can use the pre-installed one from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtual-hard-drive.aspx . The installation...

UPDATE: The samples have been refreshed if you experience this problem please download the samples again and it has been fixed. As part of understanding the new Tabular Model in Analysis Services I downloaded the sample databases from http...

Now that Denali CTP3 have been released to the public I wanted to post a blog post of the installation procedures. Installation is very similar to previous versions. First thing to do is to run the SQLFULL_x64_ENU_Install file that will unpack the installation...

The new service pack for SharePoint 2010 has been released to the web as communicated in the official blog at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=984 You can now download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en...

One of the first questions that I usually gets when showing write-back in Excel 2010 to Analysis Services cubes is how you can control the allocation of values between dimension members. By default you will get an equal allocation based on the number...

Recently a former colleague contacted me on how to format dates in PowerPivot. She had a date column in a PowerPivot workbook that she wanted to show on the row axis in a PivotTable. However no matter how she formatted the column either in the PowerPivot...

Analysis Services have had write back functionality for a long time; however there has been no client support for writeback in the most used BI client on the market (Excel). One of the new features in Excel 2010 is the ability to perform writeback...