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Visual Studio 2005 (VS) Report project is doing a great job to make your life easier by building queries and creating parameters, in this article I will take a look at what VS is doing behind the scene, and also, I will show some of the problems that can occur if you try to modify […]

Everything below is from my experience working with SSRS 2005 and MDX queries using Visual Studio 2005. Most of the errors generated by the Report Server at development and run time are self explanatory and are easy to troubleshoot, but not all of them. I had to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the problems […]

If you are like me you are probably tired of typing C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions12 whenever you want to perform an stsadm command. I am sure there is some good reason to keep this file so buried but I have not figured it out. The other day when working with Mike Becker, which […]

I just ran into an interesting aspect of an Office Communications Server 2007 integration with Cisco CallManager & Cisco Unified Presence Server. I posted the following anecdote in on the technet forums in bits and pieces, so I thought I’d put it here as well. I have an OCS Ent pool integrated with Cisco CUPS […]

The lead up to this is that since MOSS and WSS are now being used to front large and robust internet facing presences, it sometimes comes to bear that default settings make make the site not work for anonymous users. A case in point is the finding that once you have indexing working and the […]

Just in time for the Holiday’s, Microsoft announced that WSSv3 and MOSS Service Pack 1 are now available. I read that this update will also be available through Windows Update. This is an exciting release that fixes a laundry list of errors listed here. I am going to test the service packs this week and […]

I was having a discussion with a coworker this morning and we were talking about the memory leak issues within MOSS. We believe the memory leak has something to do with the content query web part. This blog site has a ton of CQWP’s and the application pool that hosts this site grows out of […]

I have been burned 3 times by OCS when trying to bind multiple IP addresses to the same NIC. Here are the three scenarios: Trying to use the same NIC for the internal and external IP address on the Edge Server We had only 1 available nic, so I put both internal and external IPs […]

Since I lasted posted on the subject, I’ve come up with what I think are all the possibilities. You can change the users SIP ID to match their AD account name. This makes it so that: NT Account name is domainjimsmith SMTP Address is jsmith@domain.com SIP ID is jimsmith@domain.com CallManager userID is jimsmith Under this […]

This is a simple MDX snippet, but it comes up often enough that I think it’s worth a blog entry. A frequent question that comes up is how to format dates for display in MDX, especially in the parameter boxes on Reporting Services reports. The best practice is to let whatever front end you are […]

I recently ran into a deployment problem for a customer where we attempted to use just two network interfaces for a single Edge Server configuration. If you follow the deployment documentation for the Office Communications Server 2007 Edge server, you’ll see that they require the Edge server to have up to four separate network interface […]

Between the OCS 2007 Deployment documentation, official Resource Kit, and blog/forum posts I’ve seen some discrepancies regarding the exact names (and order) of lookups performed by an Office Communicator 2.0 client when attempting to connect to an Office Communications Server when utilizing Automatic Configuration. Specifically I’ve seen reference to the automatic fall-back of looking for […]