By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on October 4th, 2010
It has been a while since I did one of the “A Peek Inside” postings and I thought “what the heck . . . do I have anything better to do while I am visiting with my in-laws during a vacation” . . . I couldn’t think of one so here goes.
PowerPivot has some special [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on September 10th, 2010
Is now available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff976569.aspx
Enjoy!
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on September 8th, 2010
Recently there was a forum post concerning how PowerPivot parallelizes data refresh . . and I thought this might be an interesting topic for a “Peek Inside” blog posting. The first question is: Why are we doing this? What is the purpose of parallelizing data refresh? Why is this so important? Well . . there [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on August 30th, 2010
Because PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint involves so many components from SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services, Office 2010, and SharePoint 2010, this poster provides an end-to-end view of the PowerPivot Security Architecture in one view. This view includes nearly all of the logical security surface areas and illustrates how these systems interact.
Included [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on August 16th, 2010
A series of new videos have just been posted that talk about the PowerPivot for SharePoint architecture. This 4-part series is about how user identity is established and flows in different PowerPivot environments.
Part 1: SharePoint User Identity Fundamentals for PowerPivot Administrators = http://www.youtube.com/user/sqlserver#p/u/8/uku4KuzQDIk Part 2: Security context of PowerPivot Connections in [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on April 14th, 2010
(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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on April 2nd, 2010
(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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on March 25th, 2010
Recently we been hit with a rash of inquiries around whether folks should install the 32-bit version of the PowerPivot client, or go with the larger capacity 64-bit version. Office 2010 is the first version of Office to offer a native 64-bit option. In previous releases, you had to install the 32-bit version to run [...]
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