Davy's Blog

Installing the report server in SharePoint integrated mode, really gives you the possibility to offer a great reporting frontend to your users. But a few days ago I came across a real nasty bug: I just tried to rename one of the reports, what should be an easy thing to do, but I got this [...]

Recently someone asked me to check a Reporting Services report that always resulted in an Unexpected Error. The report server was configured for Sharepoint Integrated Mode. I came to the conclusion that the server always returned this error after exactly 2 minutes, so it had to be a timeout exception. The report was kind of [...]

Microsoft has made the sessions presented on SQL Server Day 2009 available on Chopsticks Opening Keynote by Wesley Backelant and Ritchie Houtmeyers Best Practices for SQL Server Consolidation by Tom Van Mulders Breaking the ETL world record with Integration Services by Henk van der Valk Designing Effective Aggregations in Analysyis Services 2008 by Chris Webb [...]

After deploying an Excel file to Excel Services on a new MOSS Server I got the following error: Data Refresh Failed: Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections: <<connection>> The data sources may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may have denied you access. Verify that data refresh is enabled for the [...]

Today, I tried to publish an Infopath Form to MOSS, but I received the following error message: The following URL is not valid: http://servername/sites/sitename Different solutions are available for this problem, but in my case the cause seemed to be that there was no root site (http://servername). So the solution was to edit the site [...]