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Configuring My Site in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint My Sites are commonly referred to as “Facebook for the enterprise” and are personal site collections providing each user with the ability to store private and public information such as documents, pictures, status updates, etc easily and efficiently.

Configuring My Site in SharePoint 2010

My Sites in SharePoint 2010 takes social enterprise computing to the next level and builds upon what we have come to love in previous versions. Microsoft saw the need to continue to invest and enhance SharePoint’s social networking capabilities, and as web 2.0 technologies continue to sprawl all over the world wide web, Microsoft have again successfully set the bench mark in the enterprise by introducing an array of social computing features to enhance end user collaboration in SharePoint 2010.

Prerequisites This article is the 5th in my series on deploying SharePoint 2010 for the enterprise, so if you have missed the first 4, you can easily catch-up via the links below; Create the My Site Web Application Click New Click OK Click OK. Partners: 6 Ways To Get Free Microsoft Product Licenses. In-Depth Partners: 6 Ways To Get Free Microsoft Product Licenses Hidden in plain sight within the Microsoft Partner Network are six places where partners can get free product licenses.

Partners: 6 Ways To Get Free Microsoft Product Licenses

Hint: Check your Internal Use Rights. When it comes to Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) benefits, sometimes not even the most connected partners are aware of what's available to them. Julie Bennani, general manager of the MPN, recounted a recent conversation with one of the company's longest-standing ISV partners. "The [business decision maker] brought the CTO up with him," Bennani recalls. Microsoft, of course, doesn't offer its partner benefits for no reason. Nowhere is this truer than with one of Microsoft's most valuable benefits. Why Internal Use Rights Exist The advantages of the licenses for partners are obvious. "There's a small percentage of partners who completely maximize their IUR and then there's a lot of partners that aren't even close. " Julie Bennani, General Manager, Microsoft Partner Network.

What's New in SQL Server 2012 - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki. What's New (Analysis Services) AMO and XMLA Extensions to Support Tabular Modeling Both multidimensional models and tabular models are based on a unified BI semantic modeling schema (BISM), which is a superset of the schema provided in previous releases as the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM).

What's New (Analysis Services)

Therefore, you can work with both types of models by using common APIs (AMO and XMLA), and connect to servers and instances running in either tabular or multidimensional mode by using both ADOMD.NET and OLEDB. In addition to extending AMO and XMLA to support tabular models, this release includes new properties, methods, and objects to support the requirements, including properties for enhanced reporting and aggregation in reports. For more information, see Tabular Model Programming. You can also download the AMO samples for tabular modeling from CodePlex. Introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) Paul Sanders Microsoft Corporation March 2005 Updated June 2005 Applies to: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) Summary: This paper provides an introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), including the basic end-user model, and a brief overview of the architecture and security models. (17 printed pages) Contents Introduction An end-user wishing to retrieve information directly from a data source, such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) database, faces a number of significant challenges: The contents of such data sources are often very hard to understand, being designed with systems and developers rather than end users in mind.

Introduction to the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM)

The role of a Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) is to provide a bridge between the user and the data sources. Figure 1. This paper provides an introduction to the UDM. Allows the user model to be greatly enriched. Finally a brief overview of the architecture and security model is provided. Basic End-User Model Figure 2. Figure 3. Time. Power View Overview - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki. SQLShorts: SQL 2012 Power View on SharePoint 2010. Overview of the Power View feature of SharePoint 2010 SP1.

SQLShorts: SQL 2012 Power View on SharePoint 2010

Here is a brief description from : Power View, a feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. It provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers. Configuring SQL Server 2012 Denali SSAS Engine in tabular mode. Posted 11/22/2011 12:00:02 PM by Raunak Jhawar - Views: [41580]

Configuring SQL Server 2012 Denali SSAS Engine in tabular mode

Installing SSAS (Analysis Services 2012) in Tabular Mode. In SQL Server 2012, There are two modes of installing Analysis Services – “Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode” and “Tabular Mode”.

Installing SSAS (Analysis Services 2012) in Tabular Mode

During the install you can install only one of the above, not both. If you’d like to have both, you will need to create a new instance of Analysis Services by launching the SQL Server 2012 setup again and choose the Tabular Mode in the “Analysis Services Configuration” page. SQL Server "Denali": Installing SSAS Multidimensional vs Tabular Mode.

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Installing SSAS Multidimensional vs Tabular Mode As I play with the recently released CTP3 of SQL Server 2012, code name of Denali, I wanted to point something out about installing SSAS, since there is now two “modes” you can choose from due to the the new BI Semantic Model (I covered these new features here).

SQL Server "Denali": Installing SSAS Multidimensional vs Tabular Mode

During installation, when you are on the “Analysis Services Configuration” screen, you are given a choice of which server mode to use: “Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode” or “Tabular Mode”. You can’t install both on one instance. Microsoft Corporation: Software, Smartphones, Online, Games, Cloud Computing, IT Business Technology, Downloads.