Monthly Archives: October 2011

SSIS Attunity Connectors

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Everett Comstock

Recently I had to create an SSIS package that transferred a huge amount of data between an Oracle database and a MS SQL Server database. I began creating an SSIS package that used an existing linked server connection that the client had already been using to perform similar data transfers. To my dismay, the performance of the linked server was dismal. Instead of using the linked server I decided to go with the OOTB OLE DB data source available in SSIS. This increased my performance dramatically. However, when I spoke to a colleague at TCSC, he recommended that I try the Microsoft Connectors for Oracle by Attunity. I had never heard of these connectors, but I was intrigued, so I downloaded them and ran some performance test. The following tests results we recorded while debugging through Visual Studio, so real numbers will be better than what I have recorded, but the results do represent without a doubt the performance differences between the different connections.  
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BizTalk 2010 Exception: An error occurred when decrypting an AS2 message

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Kevin Carter

After setting up a new BizTalk 2010 server at a client site, we immediately began getting these errors when trying to decrypt and validate messages coming from our trading partners. The fix for us was to not only make sure that the server certificates were in all the proper stores according to the Microsoft chart, but we also needed one additional location set:  
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Move Metadata Navigation and Key Filters up the Quick Launch

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Adam Preston

So, you implemented SharePoint Server 2010 and have kicked the tires for a little bit. You are starting to poke around at the new features and capabilities to help your users be more efficient. You find and love the Metadata Navigation feature on libraries, but then you quickly find out that you have so many Quick Launch links that your users are constantly scrolling up and down to use the control. You wish there was some way to move it to the top of the page. Well, you have come to the right place!  
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Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 Review

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Adam Preston

We are fresh off the conclusion of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA and it was fantastic! The conference provided us with several insights, but most noteworthy that SharePoint is growing, and growing rapidly! You could see this everywhere, in the amount of attendee turn out (~7,500), the number of sponsors and sessions, the worldwide diversity of attendees, and the amount of social gatherings every night. We knew going into it that because it was a mid-production cycle conference that no major news would probably be announced and that was immediately evident in the keynote remarks regarding how this year’s theme was productivity. This was featured in many of the session topics, whether it was business automation using composite solutions, FAST, or being more efficient with the cloud.  
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Sitecore Layouts and Code Blocks

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Rick Matherly

One problem I recently ran into is that you cannot put ASP.NET code blocks in a Sitecore Layout.  The page will work perfectly fine in Content Editor and on the live site, but if you try to use Preview or Page Editor, you will see something like this:  
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SharePoint 2010: BCS w/o GAC

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Jim Brocato

This article describes how to use SharePoint 2010′s Business Connectivity Services without putting any assemblies in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

   
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