I have attended a couple of PowerPivot sessions at this conference 1) because it’s so damn cool and 2) very practically, it is one of the only real new product releases prior to this conference (yes , SQL 2008 R2 is out, and SSRS enhancements are nice and MDS is, well, we can cover that…
Change management has been on my mind of late as I prepare for an upcoming presentation on EPM Tool deployments. Here’s a particularly relevant post from Matt May, who wrote the Elegant Solution, one of my favorite books on innovation (the other one being Berkun’s Myths). He also wrote In Pursuit of Elegance, from which…
AKA Recreating the ReSearch This! Management Pack – By Example During MMS 2010 I was involved in a discussion where I mentioned that you don’t have to be a coder to write management packs. The ReSearch This! management pack was the example that I was citing as it’s a really simple management pack which just…
My colleague JC Warner pointed this out to me a while ago and I’ve been meaning to blog on it. The Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool takes Performance Log files and analyzes it against user defined thresholds to produce HTML files with graphs that are easy to distribute. The utility gives a PerfMon template…
One of the great topics in today’s keynote session centered around shortly? coming features for PowerPivot – namely: Integration with Visual Studio 2010 Ability to utilize SSAS 2008 R2 as point of storage for billions of rows, not just hundreds of millions Pivot Reporter extension for PowerPivot and SharePoint integration Record Viewer view to help…
And this was one of them: “Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Consolidation Best Practices Considerations”. The SQL CAT team continues to deliver – every conference I have been to, this group at Microsoft always delivers great content. Now, before I start to rave too much, I will say the title of the session fails a…
I recently was working on a way to translate rules from MOM 2005 to OpsMgr 2007 without using the backward compatibility management pack. While the concept worked out well, I made a mistake in how I targeted these new rules. What I started seeing was that OpsMgr was generating alerts which were displaying an incorrect…
Alert:IIS Stop Command Issue:Two alerts are generated as part of the SharePoint 2007 management pack when IIS is stopped and started. These are the "IIS Stop Command" and "IIS Start Command". Each is generated by a rule so they do not auto resolve. The stop command is generated from a Source of IISCTLS with event…
Microsoft will soon be integrating features of Windows Live Mesh into Windows Live Sync and Windows Live SkyDrive. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these terms, all of them relate to Microsoft’s free, consumer-based, cloud-driven applications for PC synchronization and online storage. These applications constitute part of Live Services, which are one of…
What is so cool about this video is that it is sung around a massive Rube Goldberg machine that took months to design and build by 40 engineers, techs, etc. Its really worth watching just for the inherent coolness of the machine.
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