What is the minimum number of AlwaysOn nodes required to obtain both HA and DR?
While recently answering questions in the MSDN SQL Server forums, I came across a great question about the minimum number of nodes required to obtain both high availability (HA) and disaster recovery...
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Excel Add-In not displayed in ribbon due to Group Policy setting
Excel Add-In not displayed in ribbon due to Group Policy setting Problem: The Excel Solver Add-in is enabled and appears to load during startup, but is not displayed/visible in the ribbon. Solution:...
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Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards – Day 9 – Building your first SCCM Report in...
Day #9 – Building your first SCCM ConfigMgr Report in Power BI As part of my Power BI 12 Days of Dashboards series, day #9 will take a slight twist to the current format and help walk you through...
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Excel Add-In not displayed in ribbon due to Group Policy setting
Excel Add-In not displayed in ribbon due to Group Policy setting Problem: The Excel Solver Add-in is enabled and appears to load during startup, but is not displayed/visible in the ribbon. Solution:...
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Power BI – Using the Treemap Visual with KPI status colors (red, yellow, green)
Using the Treemap Visual with KPI status colors (red, yellow, green) “Is possible to modify the default colors of the Treemap visual to reflect red/yellow/green status based upon a status field value?”...
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Sorting by Month Names in Power BI
How do I sort by month number instead of alphabetically by month name in Power BI? As I continue to work with customers to develop Power BI dashboards, this topic of sorting month columns comes up...
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Comparing Table Styles in Power BI
Tip: Use table styles to improve the look of your table data in Power BI As I continue to work with customers who are new to Power BI, a common pattern I’m noticing is that people aren’t aware of the...
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Calculating the difference between two dates in YEARS, MONTHS, and DAYS in...
How do I calculate an employee’s tenure given their start date? How can I determine a person’s age given their birth date? In a customer conversation this week, I was asked to help solve this question...
View ArticleCompiling a XAML-based project fails in Visual Studio with FIPS enabled
Compiling a XAML-based project fails in Visual Studio in a FIPS-enabled environment with an error message stating “This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic...
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Power BI Desktop – Terms and Definitions
Power BI Desktop – Terms and Definitions The following list of Power BI Desktop terms and definitions are intended to help users better understand the terminology used within the product and referenced...
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Adding a Continent Slicer to Power BI Reports
HOW TO: Adding a Continent Slicer to Power BI Reports After building Power BI reports for many customers over the past couple years, one thing is certain – people love maps. Nearly every organization I...
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Tracking LinkedIn and Twitter social media shares in Power BI
How to: Retrieve Twitter & LinkedIn share totals for a list of URLs in Power BI / Power Query / M If you have a Power BI or Power Query report that contains a list of URLs, the following M...
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SQL Nexus 2017 Conference Recap
SQL Nexus 2017 – Conference Recap Nearly 500 Microsoft data professionals attended SQL Nexus 2017 this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, with specialized tracks covering data platform, business...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Database Replication Service (DRS)
Problem: SCCM Database Replication Service is not working Solution: Service Broker had been disabled on MSDB, causing SCCM DRM to fail I was recently called in to assist with a large System Center...
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IP Address Mapping in Power BI
I recently assisted in troubleshooting an issue where the error logs contained several unknown IP addresses. During this process, I created a quick dashboard in Power BI to display the location of...
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Power BI Desktop and “The Case of the Missing Taskbar Icon”
Power BI Desktop and "The Case of the Missing Taskbar Icon" For the past two years, I’ve installed and reinstalled Power BI Desktop builds hundreds of times on numerous machines. My typical pattern is...
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My Journey into the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data
Exploring Big Data with the Microsoft Professional Program After the introduction of a very successful online education curriculum focusing on Data Science, Microsoft recently announced its next...
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Exploring Big Data: Course 1 – Microsoft Professional Orientation: Big Data
(This is part 1 of my review of the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data) Course #1 of 10 - Microsoft Professional Orientation: Big Data Overview: Titled as the Big Data orientation, the...
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Exploring Big Data: Course 3 – Introduction to NoSQL Data Solutions
(This is course #3 of my review of the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data) Course #3 of 10 – Introduction to NoSQL Data Solutions Overview: The “Introduction to NoSQL Data Solutions” course is...
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Exploring Big Data: Course 5 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud
(This is course #5 of my review of the Microsoft Professional Program in Big Data) Course #5 of 10 – Delivering a Data Warehouse in the Cloud Overview: The Big Data course titled “Delivering a Data...
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