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PowerPivot has RTM’ed

OK. You have seen the announcements. You have heard the trumpets sound.

SQL Server 2008 R2 has “released to manufacturing” (RTM’ed) and will be available soon!

EXCELLENT! WOW! OUTSTANDING!

So what does it mean to this blog. First and most importantly, I am going to be reposting all of the installation guides with RTM bits and screen shots. [...]

New PowerPivot Component Architecture blog posting

(Update: A complete version of this whitepaper is now available at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff628113.aspx – take a look. It is very cool.)

For those interested there was a new PowerPivot component architecture blog that was just posted on the official PowerPivot Team blog, see http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot/archive/2010/03/22/powerpivot-component-architecture.aspx. This is an excerpt of an upcoming SQL Server technical white paper called “Microsoft [...]

Fix for PowerPivot for Excel 2010 November CTP released

And 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

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 new Diagnostic Guide posted in the Troubleshooting section

I just posted a new diagnostic guide in the troubleshooting section:

“Diagnostic Guide for Usage and the PowerPivot Management Dashboard” by Ankur Goyal
http://powerpivotgeek.com/troubleshooting/diagnostic-guide-for-usage-and-the-powerpivot-management-dashboard/

Enjoy!

_-_-_ Dave