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...

Date: 01/27/2009

Report Approval Workflow

One of the visions of this reporting platform was to become the single source of truth for...

Date: 01/12/2009

Logging

Given the scope of the reporting platform, one of the first things we identified we needed is a...

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...

Date: 12/05/2008

SPN for Index Server

If you had followed our blog post Configuring Kerberos Delegation (without infrastructure update),...

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...

Date: 11/14/2008

Another key component of MOSS 2007 relevant to enabling Kerberos in the farm is Enterprise Search....

Date: 11/13/2008

SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint in its current version, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), has evolved from...

Date: 11/04/2008

Kerberos Protocol

Authentication in Microsoft domain networks has traditionally been done using NTLM or Kerberos...

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...

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:...

Date: 12/31/2007

String Aggregation

SSRS Report Designer exposes rich set of functionality to customize look and feel of report data...

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...

Date: 08/06/2007

Swap

The 101 class of programming makes you write a program to swap two numbers. It is during this...

Date: 08/06/2007

The UNKNOWNs

Within the colony of Integers was introduced a mutant called NULL. Prior to the arrival of NULL,...

Date: 08/01/2007

401 Precedes 200

Well I am no expert on Authentication and authorization mechanisms that IIS offers but what I learnt...

Date: 07/31/2007

Optimization through Generics

Generics, apart from providing type-safety at compile time, does come with a lot of other goodies...

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...

Date: 05/09/2006

Deploy SSIS Packages

If you are looking for a quick deployment utility for SSIS packages, the following can come handy:...

Date: 05/03/2006

SSIS

Over the next few weeks I am planning to share my experience designing, implementing and deploying...

Date: 05/03/2006

WebServices and Timezone

Have you ever had to deal with consumer and provider of webservices residing in different time zones...

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...

Date: 03/19/2006

Framework Vs Library

Came across a discussion on Joel's site about frameworks and libraries. This discussion goes hand in...

Date: 03/17/2006