Author Archives: James Summerton

CALUMO Software Lifecycle

To  ensure the continuing high quality of support CALUMO gives to its customers and help them stay up to date with the latest and greatest releases of CALUMO Software, as of January 2012, CALUMO Software versions over 2 years old will become “End of Life” on their 2nd anniversary. Continue reading

Double-Hop: The Kerberos Nightmare

BEWARE: Here there be dragons!

In the world of Microsoft BI, one of the more painful configuration tasks is to get double-hop authentication working so that you can run SQL Server Analysis Services on a separate machine to your application/web server.

There is a very detailed article from Microsoft on what you need to do and how to configure your environment to allow for double-hop authentication… Continue reading

Keeping that IIS 7 Site Snappy!

You are in the office early, you want to get stuck in to using your Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) based web site first thing whilst you have no distractions; you load your web site like CALUMO or SharePoint and … 45 seconds later… what the…?!

Welcome to IIS 7 recycling its application pools. By default, an IIS 7 application pool is set to do this after 20 minutes… Continue reading