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This must have been what Sean and I were thinking 15 years ago when we had the brilliant idea to build a cat tree. We thought we could save money and it was before we had kids so we were pretty excited to give our cats the best cat tree in town. It took the …

This is a little bit of a rant, so be prepared. I have lost count of the number of times I come across people in the “biz” who tell clients, or anyone else who will listen, that replication is the same as backup.  It most emphatically is not!  To tell somebody that is to tell …

Unlike in 2010, where you can change the search topology with a few clicks of your mouse in the UI (found about half way through this article under the title “Adjusting the Search Application Topology”), SharePoint 2013 does not play as nicely, at least if your mouse is your precious. In SharePoint 2013, this is …

As most people have realized by now, the folks over at SharePoint 2013 headquarters have remove the option for “Sign in as Different User” from the user menu.  They have posted this article about the change (also described here), and how to work around it.  However, reading the fine print “This option uses an unsupported …

As detailed in this post on the topic, you may sometimes see the follow error message when running a PowerPivot report (either when opening the report, running an explicit data refresh, or it may pop up on its own if the worksheet is setup to refresh automatically).  You may also encounter this error in other …

What’s that?  You hate apps?  I’m willing to bet that if you could only share a Windows 8 App’s workspace with the rest of your desktop, you’d actually find that many of them can be quite useful.  Well, stop dreaming about that day, because it’s here. The solution: ModernMix by Stardock (http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/). Yes, now you …

When trying to connect to data in PowerPivot everything seems to work fine when you’re setting up your data connections, setting up your relationships, and then once you go to return back to the Excel window by virtue of creating a PivotTable, you suddenly see the following error.   Message: Excel Window: PowerPivot Field List …

If after performing a system restore, many of the Apps on the Start page won’t open, and you’re getting the error message “Your Developer’s License has Expired. To Continue to use this App, Please Renew your License”, there’s 2 techniques that can work for you. Technique 1: Reinstall each app individually. This could take a …

There’s a useful PowerShell script out there which is designed to iterate over all your SharePoint Web Applications and “warm them up”.  But what happens when you find that there are other pages within your site that should be warmed up, and that script isn’t cutting it for you?  Well, it turns out there’s a …

When trying to load PowerPivot on Excel 2010 in a brand new install (with PowerPivot just added to my Excel environment), and after a reboot, I was unable to get the PowerPivot tab to load, and going into the add-in’s and trying to load the PowerPivot add-in for “COM Add-ins” wasn’t working. After some digging, …