bass_player on Microsoft Talk TechNet

It's a privilege for me to be a part of Microsoft Talk TechNet - the Talk radio for IT Pros. This coming Friday, 8-Apr-2011 9AM Pacific Time,  join me as we talk about anything related to managing and administering SQL Server. If you know anybody who's into administering SQL Server, you can pass this information around.

Event ID: 1032483824

Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.
Audience(s): IT Generalist.

For those of you who have missed the event, the recording has been made available for download

Building a Scale-Out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm using Windows Network Load Balancing Part 2

Part 2 of the series is out. The rest will probably take quite some time as I'm still wrapping up a few items on the ASP.NET aspect of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. Stay tuned

Building a Scale-Out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm using Windows Network Load Balancing Part 1

For the past couple of weeks, I've been working on a series of articles on building a scale-out SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Farm. Part 1 of this series is already available on MSSQLTips.com. This was inspired by the SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster installation series as I've been searching for available guides online but was frustrated for not finding a lot of information (or maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough).

Enjoy!

Configuring Alternate Access Mapping in SharePoint 2010

It took me quite a while to get back to writing articles for both MSSQLTips and MSSharePointTips. Now, I'm back and the first article to be published this year is all about configuring alternate access mappings on SharePoint 2010. Check out the article here. There's a corresponding PowerShell command to do the same task so watch out for that article as well