February, 2013

Sometimes you just need a quick comparison between cloud vendors and there features, this table attempts to do that without getting into which is better. Compute Azure Amazon PaaS Cloud Services N/A Websites N/A IaaS Virtual Machines EC2 Reserved Instance...

I’m excited to announce the final release of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update .  This update is a free download for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, and adds some great additional features to both ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Today’s update makes no changes to the existing ASP.NET runtime, and so it is fully compatible with your existing projects and development environment. Whether you use Web Forms, MVC, Web API, or any other ASP.NET technology, there is something in this update for you...

Learn to setup the CISCO ASA 5505 VPN device to connect with Azure Virtual Networks.

My partner in crime Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) and I did 2 SharePoint 2013 presentations in the Microsoft Offices in Luxemburg in december. I forgot to post the slides as promised (oops) Here is are the slides of: the presentation of SharePoint 2013 BI I did with Isabelle my presentation of SharePoint 2013 [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

Hey, it's been a long time since I updated this blog. Did anybody miss me? Didn't think so. Since the intertubes never stop piping out noise, obviously nobody will have noticed a little silence. In any case it feels nice to give everybody a warm fuzzy 'hello long time no see' post. No wait, don't yet ! There's actually news here, sort of. Well no, not the workflow news you were probably coming here to see. Because, as it turns out, I personally don't work on workflow any...

In a typical SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence farm, we install Excel Services, SQL Server 2012 SP1, Reporting Services, Analysis services and so on…Therefore Excel documents (with the Powerpivot and Powerview stuff) are  managed and rendered by Excel Services.Great. Then we install Office Web Apps in a WAC server and we associate the SharePoint farm and [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

During my previous presentation, my SharePoint 2013 VM became much too slow: the culprit was one of the Search component that ate my CPU : To reduce it cpu footprint, the solution was to set its Performancelevel to Reduced In Powershell, just type Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel Reduced  and restart the SharePoint Search service. Before doing that [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca