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Aaron Bator -- SharePoint Premier Field Engineer
More PowerBI Desktop Mapping for the Unconnected
After working through some of the options for mapping data in Power BI Desktop when you don't have...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 03/13/2017
FIPS and Visual Studio 2015
I have been working with customers who enable FIPS for awhile now, and as with my previous post on...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 03/10/2017
SSRS Tech Preview with Power BI displayed in the browser
I'm a little late catching up on a great development in the Power BI/SSRS story, but this month a...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 01/25/2017
November Power BI Update resolves FIPS issue
In October I reported, along with others...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 12/08/2016
Power BI and SSRS just became better friends!
Really exciting and long-awaited news on integrating SSRS 2016 and Power BI this week! As described...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/28/2016
Power BI and FIPS do not play well together
UPDATE 27 October: Here's a workaround to allow you to use Power BI with a machine set with the FIPS...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/25/2016
Data science track in the Microsoft Professional Program - Now out of Beta. My First Impressions from taking the first courses
Wanted to share the good news that the Microsoft Professional Degree program in Data Science is now...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/06/2016
Microsoft Professional Degree in Data Science
There's an interesting new offering where Microsoft has partnered with edX to package courses into a...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 07/14/2016
Power BI can analyze your tweets!
My colleague Sam Lester has been working on creative ways to showcase how to use Power BI. His...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 07/06/2016
Free training on Power BI on Edx
If you're looking to ramp-up on Power BI, as I've been doing recently since it's a powerful new tool...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/29/2016
Free e-book on Power BI
I wanted to pass on a new resource I just learned about, a free e-book on Power BI:...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/20/2016
World Wide Importers -- your new "Adventure" for data reporting
One of my colleagues let me know that Adventure Works -- the SQL database so many demos are built on...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/14/2016
What will my SharePoint 2010 Slide Libraries Look Like in SharePoint 2016?
I was happy to report earlier that I was successful in testing 2010 Slide Libraries upgraded to...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/04/2016
Office Online Server - Where's my identity?
Ran into a speedbump while configuring a new Office Online Server for a SharePoint 2016 farm and...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/04/2016
Office Online Server Available on MSDN
The download for Office Online Server is now available on MSDN. For those of you working hard on...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 05/09/2016
SharePoint 2010 Slide Libraries CAN be used in SharePoint 2016 --- at least old ones
I am working with a customer who has been on SharePoint 2010 for so long they've now decided to skip...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 04/24/2016
Power BI Desktop -- using On-Premises Data and options for SharePoint and SSRS
I've been branching out a lot recently to look at some of the Data Visualization tools in...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 04/20/2016
Invalid signature - The form changed after it was signed. Only it wasn't changed.
UPDATE 26 April: Make sure you create the correct RegKey. For the InfoPath forms my customer was...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 04/08/2016
When Full Control doesn't mean you have Full Control
Quick note on some confusion you may run into when trying to manage permissions in SharePoint 2010:...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 11/10/2014
Another instance of "Mystery of Limited Access"
Limited Access: The phrase means so much, but says so little to many SharePoint Adminstrators! Ran...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 09/12/2013
Sometimes when you upgrade, you also have to downgrade
Ran into an interesting logic puzzle today where upgrading to .Net 4 made SharePoint PowerShell...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 01/29/2013
Looking for a New Year's Resolution? How about learning some PowerShell?
Okay, so this doesn't directly speak to SharePoint, but Powershell is the base. Here's a great post...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 01/03/2013
Stuff IT Janitors Say
While looking at the SharePoint Logs: "How did General Gatherers get access to my SharePoint site?...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 12/18/2012
Your own SQL BI Demo
If you are as excited as I am about new features for SharePoint 2010 and business intelligence,...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 08/06/2012
PowerPivot helps you understand the US Debt
Whether you subscribe to the Hamiltonian theory of the need to run a deficit to have an effective...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 03/30/2012
Power View for Everyone
-------- Update November 2015: Looks like the links to the PowerView reports are no longer...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 03/22/2012
Your own demo image for SharePoint
Learn by doing Like many people, I can learn about SharePoint from reading blogs or discussion board...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 02/23/2012
SharePoint as a 4 step program
I could probably come up with more than 4 steps, but here's a progression that may look familiar to...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 01/23/2012
SharePoint Patching - What number was that?
Maybe you have eidetic memory and don't need to have SharePoint build numbers translated to...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 11/23/2011
I can't believe I didn't blog about Light Up SharePoint before now!
If you're like me, you often laugh at television/movies and the data displays: "Enhance sector 3"...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 11/09/2011
Lightswitch is cool enough to make me want to renew my visa for Visual Studio-land!
I love when you can go to a training event or conference and you learn something. It's even better...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 11/08/2011
Project Crescent is now Power View
I'm still really excited about the functionality for Project Crescent, but I'm having to rewire my...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 11/08/2011
SharePoint Powershell the easy way --- at least to build the commands
I really like using Powershell commands with SharePoint 2010, but I don't always remember how to put...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/26/2011
Project Crescent -- Turning Business Intelligence on its head and letting all the brainy bits fall out
At the recent SharePoint 2010 Conference in Anaheim I met some old and new friends and learned a...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/26/2011
Service Pack 3 available now for Office 2007, SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0
Widely posted elsewhere with lots of good details -- https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2591018/ List...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/26/2011
How Microsoft Does Site Governance Internally
I'm often asked lots of questions about how Microsoft runs SharePoint. I think a cynic's view of the...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 10/26/2011
SharePoint 2010 SP1 and patching guidance
There's a lot of interest in getting SharePoint 2010 SP1 installed and also making sure you're doing...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 06/30/2011
Ribbon Hero 2 is now available!
https://www.officelabs.com/projects/ribbonhero2/Pages/default.aspx New and improved Ribbon Hero --...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 05/10/2011
Your Cloud, My Cloud, Our Cloud
Are you confused by all the "Cloud" stuff out there? Wish you had an easy way to learn what cloud...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 04/01/2011
Be a ribbon hero!
Okay, so this does not directly apply to SharePoint -- which also has a ribbon interface -- but...
Author: Aaron Bator Date: 03/30/2011