SSRS - Display interactive report on one single page

Want to have your SSRS report show on a single page without any page breaks?

The way to do this is click on empty space of your report and then in the properties window select the interactive size and set it to '0'

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Gadgets Apps Hacks: Adding a Google Custom Search Engine to your Blog

Gadgets Apps Hacks: Adding a Google Custom Search Engine to your Blog:

'via Blog this'

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Windows 7 SDK Installation Failure

Issue: 

When installing the Windows 7 SDK the install fails and rolls back the installation before showing a failure message

You find this in the log file

SFX C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation started with log file C:\Users\qjwp\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7_0f8d776d-1dab-4e38-b30f-ff0140db5234_SFX.log

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\SFX\vcredist_x64.exe installation failed with return code 5100

Fix: 

Uninstall visual C++ 2010 Resdistributable  2010 ( both X86 and X64 Versions). Then attempt the install again. 

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Unable to install VMware tools on Windows 7 X64 - Progress bar never finishes loading

Issue:
I was getting an issue trying to install the VMware Tools on Windows 7 X64.  I would mount the Virtual CD and the program would load but the progress bar would only load to about 90% and never complete.

Resolution:
Uninstall the C++ 2010 and 2008 redistributables and try again.

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Power Consumption in TV's vs overall cost.

"One other trade-off against LCD is that the TV uses considerably more power. Samsung rates this TV at 4.5 stars. Our measures suggested 5.5. Either way, this is much less than current model LCDs, which are typically rated at 7 or 8 stars. This TV might cost you something like AU$100 a year more to run."

That above quote says that running a plasma TV is will cost you more per year to run and this is generally true. But then you have to factor in the original purchase price as well. have a look at the catalogue below. To Purchase the series 8 plasma it's $1996 and the series 8 LED is $3796  this plays a part in to factoring how much that TV will cost you over its lifetime..

It's still cheaper in this case to buy the plasma as even if you get 10 years out of the plasma you still come in cheaper over all when you factor in original purchase price and running costs.

What I am trying to say is that even though running costs of LED's are probably cheaper the total cost of ownership still ways towards purchasing a plasma at this stage.

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Hyper-V Slow Network on HP DL380 G7's

I am yet to find the root cause of why the Hyper-V guests have very slow network transfers on HP DL380 G7's.. If anyone find the cause please comment.

To me it seems the Hyper-V Virtual switch is just slow on these models

I can build a desktop with Windows 8 and install the Hyper-V tools and run up desktop much faster than I can on  the HP DL380's.

Maybe it's the Broadcom cards in the server.

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4 simple steps to Install Client Hyper-V on Windows 8 via powershell

1. Open Powershell (as Administrator)
2. Type "Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All"
3. Press enter. 
4. Reboot when asked.

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