I already have some freedom to work remotely but I am limited to using a work laptop with a vpn connection with a very dodgy battery so I have to...

Are you trying to connect to the linked server using windows authentication or sql authentication? Using current security context with sql authentication would create this error. Or using windows authentication...

Did you ever get this resolved. I have the same issue with SQL 2008 linked server to SSAS 2008. The linked server works fine on the server but when trying...

I was basically doing a full extract so the following: Select Category, CategoryString, ComputerName, Data, EventCode, EventIdentifier, EventType, Logfile, Message, RecordNumber, SourceName, TimeGenerated, User From Win32_NTLogEvent

WHERE Logfile <> "Security".

It...

I do something similar fo getting disk info and other system info, have you set anything up that reads data from the event logs as that is when i found...

I never got the WMI reader to work with event log extracts in the way I had hoped so i had to abandon using SSIS to extract event log data....

I have used the none aggregation type many times before and the value is always displayed without any issue, perhaps it is blank because of the format of the measure?

how many rows does the report contain and how many groups does it have? What version of excel are you using?

Steve, a tip i picked up a while ago that may be worth a try. On many automated phone systems if you repeatedly press 0 or a combination of numbers...

One of my faves by George Best - "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"

A phone you might want to take a look at which i presume is also available in the US is the Samsung D600 its got the cool factor and my...