Tips & Tricks
Bump Rant
Lately I have been seeing a lot more of the “bump” being used within the mailing list, forums, and newsgroups! This is my Bump Rant! Bump Rant What “bump” tells me is that the person doing it couldn’t be bothered to re-read their issue and re-write it to...
Energize IT Event
It is now the day after the Energize IT Event for me I have bee in Toronto since Thursday getting and helping out for this event. It was a Great event and I hope that we can do it again Soon! Let not wait 10 years before it happens. Here are a few of the people who...
Garth’s Guideline for Creating Reports
As a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM / MECM / SCCM / ConfigMgr ) Admin, Reporting is a fact of life! In MECM it built-in report is really SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). You can ever See Power BI Desktop or Power BI Report Server (PBRS) Reports...
Pet peeves
While reviewing Rod’s book I was reminded of one of my pet peeves. One of my pet peeves is when the package source is listed as a drive letter instead of as a UNC path. Why you ask? Have you every tried to troubleshoot why a package is not deploying to a distribution...
Where is BitLocker on Windows Server?
I was writing a few BitLocker articles (e.g. How to Enable BitLocker Recovery Information to Active Directory) and I need a computer that I could turn on BitLocker. As always, I open the control panel and look for BitLocker and can’t find it! I say to myself, where is...
Where is BitLocker on Windows Server?
I was writing a few BitLocker articles (e.g. How to Enable BitLocker Recovery Information to Active Directory) and I need a computer that I could turn on BitLocker. As always, I open the control panel and look for BitLocker and can’t find it! I say to myself, where is...
Why Am I Getting Incorrect Results in Visual Studio?
When I first encountered this issue, some time ago, I checked all of my queries in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and guess what? As I suspected, the queries were 100% correct! I was troubled because I couldn’t figure out why, if my queries were correct, I was...
How to Hide Unused Rows in a Tablix
Hi All! I’m sure that each and every one of you have used a Tablix at one point or another when creating SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports. All rows, by default, are displayed in a Tablix, but in some instances, you may want to hide unused rows and allow...