If you are running CTP3 PowerPivot for Excel client bits you have likely ran into our time bomb issue.
If you are running the November 2009 CTP version of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in, your add-in expired on April 1st. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
The SQL Server team will re-release the November 2009 CTP version of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 add-in with an extended expiration date very soon. We will post an availability announcement with the download location and installation instructions on the PowerPivot blogs and forums as soon as possible.
An update (April 7, 2010 14:19 PST) – fix has been released!
See: http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot/archive/2010/04/07/fix-for-powerpivot-expiration-released.aspx
On a personal note, I’d like to express my own apology. Clearly we miscalculated the time bomb date and did not provide an adequate adjustment period for our customers. This is totally and completely our fault.
For those of you running PowerPivot for SharePoint on the server, there is no impact from this client-side time bomb – rest easy on that account.
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