Client Embraces Lync Voice, Upgrades from IM/Presence
Having experienced success with their current Lync Server 2010 test environment for internal IM and Presence, a Catapult client decided…
Got Windows 8? Try these Desktop Shortcuts!
The new shutdown.exe command in Windows 8 can be referenced via shortcut to save time in shutting down, restarting or…
SPMetal SharePoint LINQ Filter on Multi-Value Lookup Field
I am in the processing of learning how to use SPMetal to replace those dreaded SPQuery CAML queries. So far,…
SPMetal List Joins “Unsupported Elements, References to More than One List” Error
One of the beautiful things about using LINQ to SharePoint to retrieve data from your lists and libraries is the…
Using SPMetal to Generate SharePoint 2013 LINQ Classes
I’ll be honest. I don’t like writing CAML queries. There, I said it… How about using LINQ instead to access…
SharePoint 2013 Developer Dashboard
SharePoint 2013 comes with a new and improved developer dashboard that allows you to easily monitor: Thread execution time Call…
Need data for your date dimension? Get it Free at the Azure Data Marketplace!
Over the years, many of us star schema architects have come up with our own standard for a table structure…
Schema? Prefix? Both or None?
When building SQL Server data warehouses should user-defined schemas be used? Should tables and views be prefixed? Or, maybe…
Business Intelligence Dashboards – Not Gangnam Style, Metro Style!
Although still relatively new in a broad sense, many of us have embraced the “Metro” design concepts that are the…
Denver Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group – 2013 Announcement
Many of you know I have helped coordinate the Denver Microsoft Business Intelligence user group for the last couple of…