More on SharePoint “User not found” error with Reporting Services

Following up my initial post on the SharePoint “User not found error with Reporting Services in integrated mode, I wanted to post another reason for the “User not found” error. If, somewhere in the site author tree, you have user accounts that no longer exist, you will encounter the...

6 little things I don’t like about Windows Server 2008 / Vista

I’ve been using Windows Server 2008 since it was released in February.  In general, Server 2008 is a huge improvement over 2003, however, there are a number of little things that annoy me, all of which are also found in Vista.  I plan to talk later about my favorite features in Server 2008, but...

T-SQL missing comma in SELECT does not generate parsing error

I ran in to this “gotcha” the other day while writing a number of views. I omitted a comma on my SELECT statement, and the parser did not return an error, but rather just results that I did not expect. The problem is that SQL Server interprets the missing comma as an implied column name. It is as...

Sorting via parameters in SQL Server Reporting Services

In SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) there are two different methods for a user to sort their reports after they have been generated. Other folks have done a superb job of explaining each method, so I’ll just point you to their sites: The user can interactively sort on a header textbox by just...

Free alternatives to DNSReport on DNSStuff.com

I used to use the DNSReport from DNSStuff.com, but it seems like they are making it harder to use. I researched some alternatives and I came up with these two that I liked the best: IntoDNS: http://www.intodns.com/ World Wide Web Domain Tools: http://w3dt.net/tools/dnsreport/ Here’s a more exhaustive...