PowerPivot Management Dashboard – Error

Recently I encountered an error with PowerPivot Management dashboard at a client site. The error read:

We do not know what happened, but something went wrong.

Could you please try that again?

 

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It was a quick fix as they were missing required permission on SharePoint Admin content database.

You will need Excel Services App Pool account to have SPDataAccess permission on Admin content database.

 

 

Avoiding accidentally sending email to user when assigning permission in SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013 when you assign permission to a user you do not want to notify them using SharePoint email notification. This could be for various reason. I am not going to discuss why given that’s not the point.

Now on assign user permission dialog “Send an Email Invitation” checkbox is partially hidden. The reason I say it’s partially hidden is because you do not see the checkbox until you click Show Options link at the bottom of the dialog.

Note:  You will not see the checkbox if you have not configured outgoing email in your farm.

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SharePoint Saturday – New York 2014

On July 26 2014, I was at New York speaking at my first ever SharePoint Saturday NYC. It was pretty exciting to see more than 600 user attending SharePoint Saturday NYC and also gave me chance to meet many of my speaker friends.

The event was at Microsoft office in New York.

I would like to thank everyone who attended my session. Please find my presentation slides below.
Kudos to all the organisors, sponsors and volunteers for successful event!!!
I look forward to speaking in next year’s SharePoint Saturday NYC.

SharePoint Saturday Toronto – 2014

On July 12th, I was Microsoft, Mississauga (Canada) office, speaking at SharePoint Saturday Toronto 2014. Always love speaking at Toronto events as I am from Toronto and very proud that we have one of the biggest SharePoint community here.

I presented two session and I would like to thank everyone who attended my session. Please find my presentation slides below.

Kudos to all the organizers, sponsors and volunteers for successful event!!!

SharePoint Saturday DC – Chevy Chase – 2014

On June 7th, I was at Washington DC speaking at SharePoint Saturday DC, Chevy Chase 2014. I met Rob Windsor at the YYZ as we both were flying the same plane. Ofcourse Rob was in Business class. 🙂

I would like to thank Rob for giving me ride from Airport to Hotel. ​

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The event was at Microsoft office in Chevy Chase.

Initially I was selected to present one session but then there was another workflow session that got cancelled and I ended up speaking on the same topic.
I would like to thank everyone who attended my session. Please find my presentation slides below.
Kudos to all the organisors, sponsors and volunteers for successful event!!!
SPSDC is one of my favorite SPSDC event and I hope to return back in October.

SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Guidance

This question got asked couple of time already related to SharePoint 2013 and SP1.
Following blog post cover all different scenarios for you to consider. e.g. No SP1, bad SP1 and Slipstream SP1. I would highly recommend everyone to go over the following blog. It also has all the links to download SP1 for SharePoint 2013.
One thing I would like to add on top of the above blog post is that just for the curiousity I have tried installing newly released SP1 on to of my MSDN SlipStream version of SP1 and it still worked. Though I would not recommend you to do that but just in case if you installed it for whatever reason then you should not see any issues as far as my testing goes. Always verify any patches in non Production environment before installing in Production and Backup is the key before touching Production. 🙂