Business Intelligence Enhancements in SharePoint 2013

 Business Intelligence Enhancements in SharePoint 2013

                                 

Power Pivot: Introduced in SharePoint 2010, Power Pivot now offers deeper integration with Excel Services, giving users the ability to create relationships between data from different sources. This allows users to view complex data in a more refined, normalized form.

Power View: Excel Services 2013 takes better advantage of the new Microsoft data modeling and visualization engine that sits a top the SQL Server Reporting Services add-in to SharePoint.

Business Connectivity Services: Users can now connect diagrams directly to external data, opening a wealth of opportunities for user-driven data displays. Because SharePoint can provide and control access to key data, administrators can easily share data sources through the SharePoint interface.

Dashboard Designer: Tool to define data sources and regions on a page to hold such artifacts as filters, grids, charts and graphs. With the push of a button, it creates Web Part Pages and connected Web Parts that represent the dashboard.

Ipad Interface: The iPad is now a first-class client to Performance Point dashboards, meaning executives using the popular tablet can now access Performance Point dashboards using the interactive form factor, including ability to use touch intuitively and effectively.

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Applications for SharePoint

Applications for SharePoint          

Download applications for SharePoint from below link.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/store/results.aspx?qu=sharepoint&av=osu150

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The Security Token Service is not available. The Security Token Service is not issuing tokens. The service could be malfunctioning or in a bad state

The Security Token Service is not available. The Security Token Service is not issuing tokens. The service could be malfunctioning or in a bad state.

(Or) 

An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: Could not connect to http://localhost:2843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc.TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
(Or) 

The Managed Metadata Service '' is inaccessible.

Solution:

           Go to InetMgr(IIS manager)

1.    start the "SharePoint Web Services" site

2.    start the "SharePoint Web Services Root" application pool

3.      Do IIS reset.          

                        

                                                                         
                                                    

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Lost SharePoint Farm Passphrase

Lost SharePoint Farm Passphrase

Sometimes,Unfortunatly we forgot the pass phrase given, there is no way to get the old pass phrase but we can generate the new pass phrase by using the PowerShell. Follow the below to get the new one.

Make sure that the account you are logged in as:

1.     Farm admin

2.     Local admin on server

Run the following commands to get the new one.

·         $passphrase = ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText –Force

·         Set-SPPassPhrase -PassPhrase $passphrase –Confirm

                 

MS Article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607568.aspx

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Microsoft Certification details of SharePoint 2013

Microsoft Certification details of SharePoint 2013                           

                           

                      

Code                                      Course Title                                                                       Exam Code

MS20331            Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013                               70-331

MS20332            Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013                      70-332

MS20488         Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions                  70-488

MS20489         Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Advanced Solutions         70-489

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