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So after all the hype, I have finally managed to install Windows Vista Business on my laptop. My hard drive crashed on me a couple of weeks ago and I got myself a new hard drive yesterday. So I figured why not give Windows Vista a try. NOTE: I have a…(read more)

So, we have all been looking forward to Office 2007 release and I think everyone loves it for the most. I for one have been really impressed with a lot of features in the 2007 version. The one thing that is really beginning to bother me lately is Outlook…(read more)

  Just found out I was tagged by my friend Bob Fox . For all those who don't know me much yet, here's a little something about me:

1. Born and brought up in Mumbai (Bombay), India. Just as lively as NYC and great crowd.

2. I love singing and almost went on my way to become a singer. Lucky me, I found computers at the right time …though I often try something now and then.

3. I am a really lively person and love to laugh a lot. I love sports, especially Volleyball and cricket. I will watch a lot of football too..and the superbowl this year was great, however, I wonder where all those great superbowl ads went??

4. I have a lovely daughter -  Prisha (1 year old). She's is a great kid and brings me the most joy in the world.

5. At the end of the day, I just want to be a good person. I hate myself if I ever hurt anyone and try my best to make sure that I always keep the people around me happy.

You will see that I have written a lot of useless stuff here and that is because I can't think of many things to write about myself Just another normal person.

Always thankful to god for giving me some of the best people in this world as my friends.

Cheers,

nilaish

Recently also had the opportunity to set up SQL 2005 Analysis Server for Project Server 2007. Sad to say that I had not had the opportunity to install this so far, however, was still able to help the client set this up in a matter of hours.

If any one of you has installed Project Server 2003 and used analysis services with it for Portfolio analysis, know that it is pretty much a standard process and very easy to implement. However, Microsoft has once again managed to make this as another complicated project. Here we were just trying to make sure our environment was in place and that we could just install the SQL 2005 SP1 and DSO components so that we could set up SQL 2005 Analysis service, but that's not enough, this time around, in order to set up SQL 2005 Analysis services, you have to actually create a project in Visual Studio 2005 for Analysis services. It could be just a very basic project with no data in it, but when you build it, you get a .asdatabase file. You need to ship this file to the SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services box, and then use it to set up the Analysis services. I found that a lot different from what it was with SQL 2000.

Anyways, something new learnt again. I will post the actual steps soon once I have some screen prints from the install.

nilaish

This was an interesting one. Last week I helped a client install MOSS 2007 and Project Server 2007 in a medium size farm. Interesting project. I was on the phone call for only 10 hours and helped the client set up MOSS 2007 properly and then set up Project Server 2007.

What I find interesting and not sure why Microsoft is going that route is that in order to install Project Server 2007 in a MOSS 2007 server farm, you need to install MOSS 2007 bits and Project Server 2007 bits on all servers in the farm.

This is way different from the 2003 versions where in the two could be on separate boxes and still be able to communicate with each other easily. I am not sure if we would have to buy additional licenses from Microsoft in this scenario or not.

However, let's just say the project was very interesting and a real challenge to implement. More details to follow up soon.

nilaish