Charbel's blog

Rendering Chart in Excel Services

charbel — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:21:00 +0000

So here I was, conducting a training for a customer, and I was showing the Excel Services features. I started creating an Excel sheet with dummy data, I created a chart from it and published it on SharePoint.

All goes well but when I opened the sheet from the document library, the Excel Services tried to render the graph in the web but than it failed saying that the Excel Calculation Services failed to show the chart. I was surprised a little bit, there is nothing fancy or complex in the graph, so why didn't it show?

After some thinking, I noticed that the color quality in my virtual machine dropped to 8 bit when I connected my machine to the projector. I disconnected it, modified the color quality to 24 bit and tried again: it worked

It seems that the Excel Calculation Services depends on the color quality on the server even though the graph was shown successfully in Excel client!!!

Problem Creating a SSO Database in SharePoint 2007

charbel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:17:00 +0000

Are you having trouble configuring the SSO service on SharePoint 2007 and receiving the following message: "Failed to connect to the database server"?

If this is the case, you might want to look at the newly posted article in knowledge base:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944104

SharePoint 2007 Certifications

charbel — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:38:00 +0000

Last Wednesday I past my last SharePoint exam (70-542: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development). With this done, I am now SharePoint certified. Boy the last exam was difficult.

I am happy now that the exams are old news now . Good luck for those out there who wish to be certified!!!

Great Mistakes in Technical Leadership

charbel — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:24:00 +0000

This is my first post after the big crash it's been a long time.

anyway, for anyone out there trying to become a leader or already a leader the below article is useful. This one is taken from the Hacknot site.

19 mistakes technical leaders fall into listed below:

Assuming the team serves you

Isolating yourself from the team
Employing hokey motivation techniques

Not providing technical direction and context

Fulfilling your own needs via the team

Focusing on your individual contribution

Trying to be technically omniscient

Failing to delegate effectively

Being ignorant of your own shortcomings

Failing to represent the best interests of your team

Failing to anticipate

Repeat mistakes others have already made

Using the project to pursue your own technical interests

Not maintaining technical involvement

Playing the game rather than focusing on the target

Avoiding conflict

Putting the project before the people

Expecting everyone to think and act like you

Failing to demonstrate compassion

The full article with description can be checked here