(This refers to MOSS 2010 and PPS V2) Today I needed to make an internal PPS demo available via the internet, so some alternate access mapping within SharePoint was in order. I added an AAM entry for my default web site, essentially converting http://foo into http://demoname.domain.com inside MOSS. When I fired up the dashboard via http://demoname.domain.com, my analytical grids/charts, scorecards and filters worked correctly. However, the PPS reports which are [ Read More ]
While watching the keynote from the recent BI Conference, I saw a demo of the Pivotviewer Extensions for Reporting Services. This is an interesting tool that will help automate creating Pivot collections. Unfortunately, even as an Microsoft FTE I can
Proof positive you need to keep writing code or your skills atrophy. This morning I needed to write some simple code to render an SSRS report as an image using the SSRS Web Services…. In VS, I added a Service Reference to ReportExecution2005.asm
If you’ve been waiting for the Click Once version of Report Builder 2.0, your wait is over (as long as you don’t mind using non-RTM bits). The SP1 CTP will allow you to launch RB 1.0 or 2.0 as Click Once applications in both Native and MOSS integr
SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 was released a few weeks ago, and contains a very nice (but not promoted) improvement around PDF rendering. For those who regularly render reports which require specific fonts and character sets (for example, tr
Late last week I stumbled into a really informative conversation around how 2005 reports are “automagically” upgraded to 2008. Thought I’d post the br
With the RTM of SQL 2008, it looks like a slightly older version of the add-in has been removed from microsoft.com. Unfortunately, all of the search engines (including Live) are pointing at the old, dead page. If you search for the add-in directly
The SQLCAT team just released a very interesting technical note which compares the relative “scalability goodness” of Reporting Services 2005 to 2008. You can read the article just as well as I can, but here’s the executive summary, and the results
Some people love to review logs. For an even smaller group, log reviewing becomes a compulsion. For those of you who fall into either bucket (or even for people like me who only look at logs if my server is spinning in circles like Regan from the Exo
Yesterday, my buddy Amit Panchal and I were trying to get an x64 instance of SSRS joined to reporting farm, and had a bear of a time. Because of issues I won’t get into here, we were trying to initialize the server in the “classic” way – meaning w
