After recently standing up a SharePoint 2010 development farm, I opened PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer so I could start putting together a Business Intelligence site. I opened a new Data Source within Designer and entered my SharePoint site URL. When I tried to get a listing of lists available, I received the following error: [ This data source cannot be used because PerformancePoint Services is not configured correctly. Additional details have been logged for your administrator. ] Amazingly for a Microsoft application, this error was pretty helpful in leading me to find the answer. This error message is designed to be presented to an end-user, so when it mentions the details ‘have…
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Removal of PowerPoint Broadcast in SharePoint Online
If you use the PowerPoint Broadcast feature within SharePoint Online, you will soon receive an email letting you know that the service is being removed and your library will be deleted. As stated in the email, “This feature will be removed from SharePoint Online in 90 days (2 October 2012), and all data stored in the Broadcast site collection will be deleted.” You can use two other ways to broadcast presentations to others in your company: 1. Use Lync Online (if you subscribe to the service) 2. Office Broadcast Service If you have questions about the removal of the service, you can contact the product team by posting here: PowerPoint…
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Branding the RSS Feed Web Part for Office 365
If you have attempted to use the RSS Viewer web part in SharePoint Online (part of Office 365), you will notice that it doesn’t work! Rene Modery has done a wonderful job creating the RSS Feed Web Part for Office 365 and with his latest release (June 29, 2012), you should put this on your list of must-have sandboxed solutions for Office 365. If you have used it before and had issues with SSL (Plan 2), Rene has fixed those issues with this release. The web part can also be branded via CSS, and in this post I will show you how. The original posting for the web part shows…