Thursday, November 12, 2015

Business Intelligence with SharePoint

  •    SharePoint -  Excel Service , Visio Service, PerformancePoint Service
  •    Microsoft Excel – Excel, Power view, PowerPivot
  •    SQL Server – Integration with the SQL Reporting Service
  •    Third Party Tool – Power BI 

Comparison Business Intelligence Capabilities in Different Microsoft SharePoint Environments  

Feature
SharePoint On-Premise
SharePoint Online Plan 1
SharePoint Online Plan 2
BI Center
Yes
No
Yes
Excel Services
Yes
No
Yes, if the workbook size less than 10 MB
Visio Services
Yes
No
Yes
PerformancePoint Services
Yes
No
No
PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration
Yes
No
No
Power View for Excel in SharePoint
Yes
No
Yes
PowerPivot for Excel in SharePoint
Yes
No
Yes
Scorecards & Dashboards
Yes
No
No
PivotTables and Pivot Charts
Yes
No
Yes
Filter Enhancements and Filter Search
Yes
No
Yes
Schedule Data Refresh
Yes
No
No
Usage Monitoring
Yes
No
Yes
Reporting Services integration With SQL
Yes
No
No

Moreover we can use Power BI (Payable app) for office 365.It provides below features.
  • Can create BI sites and called them as “Power BI sites”.
  • Provide data stewardship and query sharing and management.
  • Can schedule Data Refresh.
  • Provide Natural Language Query (Q&A).-(not provide in any other environments)
  • Provide predictive forecasting.(not provide in any other environments)
  • View Microsoft Excel workbooks in a browser.( if the workbook size less than 250 MB)
  • Usage Monitoring.
  • Cannot use for Excel Power view and PowerPivot workbooks.
References
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn877942%28v=sql.120%29.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-online-service-description.aspx#bkmk_tablespo
http://www.sharepoint.co.il/sites/share-point/UserContent/files/Appendix_B.pdf
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn877942%28v=sql.120%29.aspx

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Importing Images Into SharePoint User Profiles My Sites

To make the user images that we have uploaded into the thumbnail Photo attribute in Active Directory available in SharePoint we will first need to map it to the Picture property in the User Profile Service Application.
  1. Firstly you will need to go into the User Profile Service Application.Central Admin > Application Management > Service Applications > Manage Service Applications > User Profile Service Application.
  2. Then you will need to go into the Manage User Properties section and edit the Picture property. 
  3. Next we will map the Active Directory property thumbnail Photo to the Picture property in SharePoint.
  4. Once the mapping has been applied the Manage User Properties page will look like this.
  5. Now we will need to run a Full User Profile Synchronization job so that SharePoint can import the user images from Active Directory Synchronization > Start Profile Synchronization > Start Full Synchronization.
  6. Lastly we will need to force SharePoint to update the User Profile Database - This will create the thumbnails that are used in My Sites and the User Profile Service. This will need to be run in the SharePoint PowerShell Console with the appropriate My Site permissions.




Reference: Import-user-profile-photos-from-active-directory-into-sharepoint-2010