• Silverlight Streaming of Obama’s Inauguration

    Microsoft’s Silverlight technology will be used by various broadcasting platforms for live and video-on-demand Online Streaming of the Inauguration of Barack Obama as US President on 20th January 2009 The Presidential Inaugural Committee ( http://www...
  • Adobe PDF iFilter for 64bit

    Eventually! Adobe has released a 64bit version of it’s PDF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Up till now, your only options were Adobe’s 32 bit version, or buy the 32- or...
  • SharePoint and PerformancePoint….better together

    It was just announced a few days ago that PerformancePoint Server will not longer exist as a stand-alone product. It's functionality will be integrated into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Exact details and the reasoning behind this are described...
  • Extracting and Loading SharePoint Data in SQL Server Integration Services

    SSIS Developers often wonder how they can get information into, and out-of a SharePoint lists. There is a solution. Look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd365137.aspx for an explanation on the SharePoint List Source and Destination Sample...
  • SQL Server 2008 Express – PowerShell a requirement?

    This question seems to be coming up more often these days: Is PowerShell a requirement for the installation of SQL Server 2008 Express Edition? Well, it depends on the Edition of SQL Server 2008 Express you are wanting to install. SQL Server 2008 Express...