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Help: c2wts has fallen and it cannot get up

(This applies to the RTM version of SharePoint and is an extremely common problem that is occurring with all of our RTM servers. I think that it will quickly become one of those things that everyone does each and every time they install a SharePoint server.)

There are two reasons why the “Claims to Windows Token [...]

PowerPivot for Excel 2010 November CTP Expired

If you are running CTP3 PowerPivot for Excel client bits you have likely ran into our time bomb issue.

From: http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot/archive/2010/04/02/powerpivot-for-excel-2010-november-ctp-expired.aspx

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 [...]

A Peek Inside: Allocation. What is it? Why is it important?

Recently I have been getting some questions about an earlier post that I did around how the PowerPivot inactivity unloading is done. see http://powerpivotgeek.com/2010/03/04/a-peek-inside-unloading-powerpivot-data/ for more details. Surely there must be a faster mechanism for unloading data – and there is – but to fully discuss that aspect of the system we need to take [...]