PerformancePoint error: “Code blocks are not allowed in this file.”

PerformancePoint error: “Code blocks are not allowed in this file.”

While creating a new BI Center at my company we had no trouble building the site in dev, creating dashboards, Excel reports, etc.  Everything worked fine.  We were rolling the solution out to production (keeping in  mind, our dev and prod installations of SharePoint 2010 were created identically), but when we clicked on “Start Using PerformancePoint Services”, we were met with the error page and the message “An error occurred during the processing of /<BI Center>/Pages/ppssample.aspx.  Code blocks are not…

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Enabling editing of SQL 2000 DTS in SSMS 2008 R2

Enabling editing of SQL 2000 DTS in SSMS 2008 R2

We have some old SQL 2000 DTS Packages that we still maintain, and I’m not continuing to install SQL Enterprise Manager on future versions of my OS just to edit these things, I should be able to edit them in SSMS right?  Well, yes, but it requires a couple of steps, that so far in my Google research is never complete…it’s always a part of the entire solution. (PINTA) Well, here’s the entire solution: First, go to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11988 and download/install the SQLServer2005_BC.msi…

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Custom presence in Lync 2010

Custom presence in Lync 2010

I enjoyed using custom presence in Communicator 2007, but when our enterprise switched to Lync 2010 a few months ago, my custom presence migrated through until I switched to a new PC, then the old method of enabling custom presence failed.  Why?  One registry entry… Here’s how to do it: Create a string key in HKCUSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator called CustomStateURL and give it a value of the path to an OCS presence XML file, such as file:///c:/program files/Microsoft Office Communicator/OCSPresence.xml Now, also…

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SharePoint 2010 Workflow Status filtering

SharePoint 2010 Workflow Status filtering

Since MOSS 2007, SharePoint workflow statuses display with a text value such as “Canceled”, “Completed” or “In Progress”, but behind the scenes are stored as a key with an integer value.  So in a view when you want to filter based on the workflow status you must use this key value, and not the display text. As an example, here’s what the Filtering section would look like if I were filtering out items where the workflow status were either “Completed”…

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Customizing the Request Access page in SharePoint 2010

Customizing the Request Access page in SharePoint 2010

Our organization, like many others, handles access requests for all applications through our IT Support desk. Additionally, documentation is required and must be approved by the user’s department manager before the access can be granted. After just recently migrating the entire company’s intranet over to SharePoint 2010, I wanted to allow users to request access, so I made sure the Manage Access Requests was selected by default for all resources. However, within a week of moving it over I’m getting…

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