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Changing service accounts and handling password resets

While this is technically a pure SharePoint posting, we have found it useful in our labs. We have password resets all of the time and this cheat sheet was developed to make it as painless as possible. I hope you find it as useful as we do.

Step 1: Start Services.msc

For each service using the machine [...]

A Peek Inside: Why no cross-farm support?

From time to time, particular from knowledgeable SharePoint users coming up to speed with PowerPivot, I get the question: “PowerPivot have ‘cross-farm’ support”. As you can see from the title of this post, we don’t support it – and in this “A Peek Inside” I hope to explain why.

First, what is SharePoint ‘cross-farm’ support [...]

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 [...]