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December 2006 - Posts

Provisioning Shared Services is MOSS / SPS taking forever (my dumb mistake)

I just learned a hard, cruel lesson today. I’ve been trying to configure Shared Services on a MOSS machine, and I found that once I started the process, it would run for 60+ minutes without completing. Checking in the Shared Services window of Central
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SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP3 (December) is live!

CTP3 is now downloadable at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D2DA6579-D49C-4B25-8F8A-79D14145500D&displaylang=en#QuickInfoContainer As far as reporting-heads are concerned, CTP3 is good for us because it removes the CTP2 requirement

Data Refresh in Excel Services fails with "SSO has failed with the following error code -2140995579, exception: Error in the application"

I've been playing quite a bit with Excel Services the last few weeks, and ran into a problem around refreshing data in a worksheet stored in Excel Services when I used Single Sign On (SSO) in the ODC. I also noticed that each time my report failed to
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Custom Report Items not supported in SQL Express & Workgroup Editions

Saw an interesting conversation today around custom report items in SSRS. The information isn't a huge surprise, but at the same time is not documented in books online, either: Custom report items will only work inside Standard | Developer | Enterprise
 
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