Tips & Tricks
Remote Error in PBRS Demystified: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
When you work a lot on reports in either Power BI Report Server (PBRS), at some point you are bound to get errors that basically say: go to the server to see the real error OR enable remote errors. It’s not a big deal to go to the host server and run the report in...
How to Create Cascading Prompts
Prompts are extremely useful because with a prompt you can limit what is displayed within a report. You can get even more granular results when you add a second or a third prompt. Adding additional prompts, however, can lead to some minor inconveniences and unintended...
Accessing ConfigMgr Reports – Browser or Console
A long time ago, I learned while troubleshooting SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. That your first step is always to open the report in a browser. Why? If it doesn’t work there, then there is no point in trying to access it via the console. Why because the...
SSRS and Power BI Report Standards
In order to ensure that all of the reports found in Enhansoft Reporting and Warranty Information Reporting have the same look and feel, we created a Power BI and SSRS report standards guide. Why would you want to do the same? The answer is simple: consistency. There...
How to Fix the SSRS Error – Definition of this Report is Not Valid
Leonard and I talk about SSRS and Power BI reporting all of the time. We even publish weekly tips and tricks about reporting on the Ask Garth and distribute a monthly newsletter full of tips. By the way, if you are not signed up for the newsletter, you should be! One...
Display a Date in a Text Box
The idea for this blog post was on my list of “things to do” for quite a while. Why? Again, and again, I saw comments such as, “My date is in the wrong format,” and, “I just want the short date, I don’t need the time.” There are numerous ways to solve these problems,...
Exploring ConfigMgr Health Script Results
A while back I should you how to setup and configure ConfigMgr Health Script. I always indented to show you the ConfigMgr Health Script. This blog will walk you thru the results and will show you some ideas on how to create your own ConfigMgr Health Dashboard....
Exploring ConfigMgr Health Script Results
A while back I should you how to setup and configure ConfigMgr Health Script. I always indented to show you the ConfigMgr Health Script. This blog will walk you thru the results and will show you some ideas on how to create your own ConfigMgr Health Dashboard....
How to use WMI Explorer!
As a ConfigMgr administrator understand WMI is important part of the job. ConfigMgr Hardware inventory using WMI to collect data. On top of that, ConfigMgr itself use WMI to interface with its backend and SQL server using WMI too. Using Wbemtest or WMIC or PowerShell...
Changing ConfigMgr Report Account Password, How do I do it?
This comes of fairly often within Reddit or other forums, Changing ConfigMgr Report Account Password, How do I do it? What people do is change the account password within Active Directory (AD). Then they change the dataset password and everything works great for 10...