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A Peek Inside: Why are domain accounts needed?

Have you ever had to do something that you knew (you just KNEW) that lots of folks were going to scream – and scream loud – about? This is one of those cases – I can just feel it!

Ok, here goes. There have been several recent newsgroups postings concerning why we require domain accounts [...]

A Peek Inside: The client architecture

Well, I have a fun one today. We get asked all of the time about how the PowerPivot add-in works. Particularly how it relates to the SSAS components that BI Pros are used to, e.g. making connections to SSAS. As I am getting ready to write an architecture overview blog posting for the PowerPivot [...]

Way cool SharePoint topologies poster

Now this is a cool poster. SharePoint 2010 has a new shared services architecture that PowerPivot uses extensively. We have written both a new web services service and a Windows service wrapper around the SSAS msmdsrv.exe. I thought you might find it useful, or at least fun, to see how SharePoint is approaching the distributed [...]