My IT Experiences

Setting up Reporting Services for a SharePoint 2010 in integrated mode can be done in less than 30 minutes if you have the infrastructure ready. However there are a few things to take care of if we are in a SharePoint farm environment with different servers handling different roles. To get Reporting Services to work in SharePoint Integrated mode requires SharePoint object model. Either we install SharePoint object model on our database server running Reporting Service or install SQL Server Reporting Service on a SharePoint application server. Here are a few things to take care of: 1. Use a domain account in the Reporting Services Configuration Manager 2. In the Reporting Services Configuration Manager wizard, click on Apply in different screens before navigating away. 3. Reporting Services Add-in is required on SharePoint Servers; it is part of the SharePoint 2010 pre-requisite installer. It can also be downloaded and installed separately on SharePoint Servers.

Here is an excellant blog post from Kirk Evans, an MSFT Engineer on Host named site collections in SharePoint 2010. This post really blow away the fear people had on recommending and implementing site collections with host headers. What Every SharePoint Admin Needs to Know About Host Named Site Collections

Here is a web based PowerShell Command Builder for SharePoint 2010 Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint 365: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/TechNet/en-us/Office/media/WindowsPowerShell/WindowsPowerShellCommandBuilder.html

Downloading and installing Google Chrome is so easy but every time we google for Chrome we get an online installer link. This will install Chrome browser for current user but if you want an offline installer or Chrome as a single executable file you need to check out the following link: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=126299 This took me a couple to minutes to figure out, I hope it helps somebody out there.