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How to Disable Passive FTP in Internet Explorer

Hello.  Some ftp sites do not play well with passive FTP mode.  If using Internet Explorer, you would disable Passive FTP as shown below.   Please let us know if anyone has had similar experiences with FTP ...

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Project Permissions in Project Server 2010 (External Users)

Folks – recently I have been seeing quite a few similar questions around external access to a project whether it is via PWA or Project Professional.  We cover this in our PM Training and have seen these several times wit ...

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Importing a local file into MS Project Server 2010

The first time I needed to do this in Project Server 2010 it took me a while to figure it out. It’s not that I didn’t know how to do it; I just couldn’t figure out WHERE to do it. In Project Professional 2007 there was an opt ...

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Project and Project Server - December 2011 Cumulative Updates (CU) for Project and Project Server 2010 and 2007 Released

Thanks to Brian and the Microsoft team for the announcement and the great work on the December 2011 Project and Project Server 2007 and 2010 Cumulative Updates and Hotfixes.  This article calls out the specific links f ...

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Uploading multiple documents to SharePoint library are left in a checked-out state

Hi, I recently had a customer inquire as to why when he uploaded multiple documents to a SharePoint 2007 document library they were all left in a checked-out state upon upload.  Through our ProCare Support Services, we ...

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SSRS Deploying reports with BIDS in SharePoint Integrated mode (TargetReportFolder, etc)

The screenshots below cover the, TargetDataSourceFolder, TargetReportFolder and TargetServerURL settings.  In this case I want to deploy my datasources and reports to a folder in the Business Intelligence center named Re ...

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We just received PMI Global REP approval and we're excited about it!

This is a great achievement for us.  And one we’ve been working on for sometime.  In order to achieve this our courses had to go through a very comprehensive evaluation process.  The end result being a huge ben ...

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SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2: Using URLs to call reports with single and Multi value parameters (HTML and Report Viewer applicable)

  This is simply a brain dump from quite a bit of SSRS report development I was doing this past weekend.  Basically I have one SSRS report that I want to call another, however, I want it to open in a new window. ...

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The selection is not a valid performancepoint filter when using PerformancePoint Services 2010

I encountered this issue when creating some dashboards.  More specifically I was adding a PerformancePoint filter to a webpart page.  It took a short while but I quickly realized the URL being inserted was incorrect ...

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SQL Query to find January 1st of year for given date

declare @MyDate as date
set @MyDate = '11/11/2012'

SELECT DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year, 1, @MyDate), 0)

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SQL Scripts to find previous Saturday or Sunday

STo find previous Saturday for given date declare @selecteddate date = '20111118'; SELECT DATEADD(DAY, (DATEDIFF(DAY, '19000106', @selecteddate) - 1) / 7 * 7, '19000106') previous_saturday; GO To find Previous Sunday ...

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Project Server 2007 Hotfix – October 2011

There are a few of you out there that have asked why the order of the Weeks in the OLAP cube have Week10 before Week6 – this hotfix addresses this ordering/sorting issue and a couple others. Description of the Office Projec ...

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