One of the major tasks over looked during page performance issues trouble shooting is how many closed web parts are there on the page. SharePoint offer end users and administrator’s two options for removing web parts from a page: close and delete. Closing a web part does not remove the web...

In previous versions of SharePoint, web parts were added to pages via predefined web part zones. Customization of this predefined layouts for displaying we parts were very difficult and tedious to do. The current SharePoint 2010 server provides the ability to add web parts into content areas...

In SharePoint Server 2007, solutions could be deployed at the farm level by farm administrators only.  This practice was not conducive and posed a threat to the overall health of the farm as a fatal exception occurring in one application could bring the whole farm down. Microsoft addressed...

Microsoft SQL Server 2011 CTP1 (Community Technology Preview) was released last year. This is basically the public beta of the upcoming version of SQL Server. Microsoft is referring to this release as SQL Server Code Named “Denali”. In the latest release of SQL Server, there is a...

BIDS is the Business Intelligence Development Studio for the Microsoft BI toolset (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS). Coming from an App Developer background, I am a strong supporter of documentation.  Being a consultant, many of my engagements start with reviewing and assessing the clients’ existing BI...