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Taking your PowerPivot server off the network

Do you travel with your laptop? Are you running Windows Server 2008 (or R2) on it? Is it a 64-bit OS? Does it have enough memory to run a VM of the PowerPivot server components? (4GB will just do it, but 8GB is better – with 6GB reserved to the SharePoint image) Are you running [...]

Use the SharePoint file upload feature

For the best file upload performance and features, use the SharePoint built-in file upload capabilities. It is easy to do, just click on “Add file” on your document library and the file upload dialog box appears. Enter the local path to the file and away you go:

Note: The second dialog box that pops up [...]

Enable the ‘Desktop Experience’ role in Windows Server

Windows Server 2008 (and in particular, R2) uses an overall approach to functionality that is considerably different that it’s Windows desktop cousin. Windows desktop is all about maximum flexibility. The Windows Server approach is to be ‘lean and mean’ –> meaning that the out-of-the-box experience is limited to very basic operations. Recently I learned this [...]

Welcome to PowerPivot!

I won’t go into a long discussion. I will just point you to some web sites and let you investigate things yourself. Here are some great sites:

The official PowerPivot web site: http://www.powerpivot.com/
The PowerPivot team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot/

And finally a series of great “Getting Started” posts from a former fellow PowerPivot team member (and current [...]