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When you install the SharePoint BI stack, you need to create a PowerPivot Service application that will manage the PowerPivot workbooks via a very nice dashboard which unfortunately was empty in my Central Admin. no error, nothing in the ULS, just an empty page. To fix that, I activated the PowerPivot...

How to move a content db from a SharePoint Dev farm to a SharePoint test farm. step 1. backup the dev farm content db step 2. go to your test farm, copy the backup to the SQL Server backup location If you don’t know the default SQL server backup location, start SQL Server Management Studio […]...

A week after the SharePoint Summit (Quebec) I had the pleasure last week to present a session on SharePoint 2013 and Business Intelligence with my partner in crime and colleague isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP); the slide deck can be downloaded here. Blog Post by: sergeluca

les slides de ma session worflow SharePoint 2013; il est très rare que je donne des sessions en français…  Blog Post by: sergeluca

At the moment you will find many examples illustrating how to call external JSon web services from  SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows by using the Call activity, but we should keep in mind that the Call action works very well with the SharePoint REST api and this opens the door to plenty of possibilities...

Creating and using content types in SharePoint is often considered as the best practice; however SharePoint workflows created for SharePoint 2013 cannot be associated anymore with content types. This is a very important point to consider if you are moving to the new platform In MSDN you can read “Unlike...

SharePoint 2013 provides a new and improved SharePoint Designer action the Start a Task Process. To learn more about it, just follow the excellent youtube video authored by SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers. I’ve recently tried this activity and one of the issue I’ve faced is that when you assign this task...

  I just did follow the 4 hour (live from Redmond & free) course available here and I really enjoyed it : Blog Post by: sergeluca

Here are the slides of my presentation on Apps for SharePoint 2013 @Ephec (Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Brussels. Blog Post by: sergeluca

3 years in a row, I kinda feel home in Canada: next month, I’ll present the following session : Blog Post by: sergeluca

I did a session SharePoint 2013-Business Intelligence in French in Paris last month with my partner in crime in BI Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP). This session was part of “SharePoint et les 10 Commandements”. Blog Post by: sergeluca

The slides of my session can now be downloaded here.   Blog Post by: sergeluca

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...

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...

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 ...

Here is what you need to do: go to SharePoint Central Admin-System Settings-Manage Farms Solution and deploy powerpivotwebapplicationsolution.wsp to your web application :   Blog Post by: sergeluca

If you use SharePoint 2013 and if you take a look at your workstation file system, you might notice the following (blue) folders :SharePoint and Skydrive Pro : The SharePoint folder allows you to synchronize document libraries of any SharePoint sites with your workstation The SkyDrive Pro folder allows...

Introduction In this post I will give you a quick overview of the SharePoint 2013 REST/oData service; I will only use the browser (and Http GET calls) to illustrates several REST statements; in other posts, we will start writing code (.net and javascript) Step1.The big picture. In SharePoint 2013, Microsoft...

In SharePoint 2013  if you use the out of the box Content Deployment , you cannot have users rating the document library of a source site and users rating the same document library in a target site. The reason is : rating is stored in the list, not in the social database, therefore ratings in [...

A colleague recently asked me this question, so let’s share the answer : yes check the http response headers; now how can you do this ? 1°Browse the web site with Internet Explorer (in my case I browsed our corporate public web site based on O365 that we published a few months ago): 2°In the [...] Blog...

With my partner in crime Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP), I’ll be SharePoint 2013 speaker for the Guss (Groupe des Utilisateurs Francophones de SQL Server, Paris) by the end of September in the Microsoft France Offices; for more information click here. Of course, I will share my slidedeck…...

This small utility can download SharePoint Solution packages uploaded to SharePoint. I have updated it for SharePoint 2013 beta; we now have a version for SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.   Blog Post by: sergeluca

1.The User Interface is more or less the same : the ribbon still plays an important role and Central Admin is pretty similar. However we can leverage the metro UI. 2.The architecture is very similar to SharePoint 2010 : farm, web app, site collections, sites, services apps, jobs,…; many improvements...

MOSS 2007 & WSS Code (packaged in .wsp files) is supposed to run in full trust mode on the server SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint Foundation 2010 code (packaged in .wsp files) can run on the server in full trust mode, on the server in partial trust mode (sandbox , uploaded by a site collection administrator...

  It looks like everybody in the planet is aware that Office 2013 and SharePoint 2010 Preview are available this week and can be downloaded here and here . I had the opportunity to watch the live announcement from the Microsoft France Offices this week. You will find plenty of posts describing many...