Bits&Bytes
Order in the chaotic world of bits and bytes
Logging with Enterprise Library
As noted in the previous Logging blog post, the framework for our platform ended up using Enterprise...
Author: sp jak Date: 01/27/2009
Report Approval Workflow
One of the visions of this reporting platform was to become the single source of truth for...
Author: sp jak Date: 01/12/2009
Logging
Given the scope of the reporting platform, one of the first things we identified we needed is a...
Author: sp jak Date: 01/09/2009
Accessing CA Search Admin with SPN set for Index Server
Side effect of setting up an SPN for the index server is that your search administration page(s) for...
Author: sp jak Date: 12/05/2008
SPN for Index Server
If you had followed our blog post Configuring Kerberos Delegation (without infrastructure update),...
Author: sp jak Date: 12/04/2008
Configuring Kerberos Delegation (without infrastructure update)
This blog post will detail the steps needed to configure a SharePoint farm to successfully delegate...
Author: sp jak Date: 11/14/2008
Enterprise Search
Another key component of MOSS 2007 relevant to enabling Kerberos in the farm is Enterprise Search....
Author: sp jak Date: 11/13/2008
SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint in its current version, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), has evolved from...
Author: sp jak Date: 11/04/2008
Kerberos Protocol
Authentication in Microsoft domain networks has traditionally been done using NTLM or Kerberos...
Author: sp jak Date: 11/03/2008
Marketing Platform and Services
One of the main charters of our group, Marketing Platform and Services, is to be a partner to...
Author: sp jak Date: 10/31/2008
ECS: Data Refresh Failed
We have setup a MOSS Farm with WFE, ECS and SSAS separated by physical boundaries: Server Notes WFE:...
Author: sp jak Date: 12/31/2007
String Aggregation
SSRS Report Designer exposes rich set of functionality to customize look and feel of report data...
Author: sp jak Date: 08/11/2007
Escape character for SSIS command line parameters
You basically have to wrap everything within quotes by basically escaping the quote(") as in this...
Author: sp jak Date: 08/06/2007
Swap
The 101 class of programming makes you write a program to swap two numbers. It is during this...
Author: sp jak Date: 08/06/2007
The UNKNOWNs
Within the colony of Integers was introduced a mutant called NULL. Prior to the arrival of NULL,...
Author: sp jak Date: 08/01/2007
401 Precedes 200
Well I am no expert on Authentication and authorization mechanisms that IIS offers but what I learnt...
Author: sp jak Date: 07/31/2007
Optimization through Generics
Generics, apart from providing type-safety at compile time, does come with a lot of other goodies...
Author: sp jak Date: 12/08/2006
SSIS OLEDB Connection: SSPI or True
For an OLEDB Connection, if you happen to use Inetegrated Security, what should the value of the key...
Author: sp jak Date: 05/09/2006
Deploy SSIS Packages
If you are looking for a quick deployment utility for SSIS packages, the following can come handy:...
Author: sp jak Date: 05/03/2006
SSIS
Over the next few weeks I am planning to share my experience designing, implementing and deploying...
Author: sp jak Date: 05/03/2006
WebServices and Timezone
Have you ever had to deal with consumer and provider of webservices residing in different time zones...
Author: sp jak Date: 03/29/2006
Code or People
I joined MS recently and one of the first things I had to work on was my commitment form. The last...
Author: sp jak Date: 03/19/2006
Framework Vs Library
Came across a discussion on Joel's site about frameworks and libraries. This discussion goes hand in...
Author: sp jak Date: 03/17/2006