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Recently I had a conversation with one of our excellent beta testers and I want to make sure that everyone was clear about running PowerPivot on Windows 7. Windows 7 is only supported for PowerPivot for Excel; Windows 7 is not a supported OS for PowerPivot for SharePoint A trick for the client-side folks doing build-to-build reinstallations (or if you wish to clear all of the PowerPivot code from your client): besides uninstalling “Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel” (via control panel Add/Remove/Uninstall Programs, the exact wording varies depending on the OS you are running), you may also have to delete files in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Analysis [...] In scanning through some recent discussions on the PowerPivot forums, I noticed this very nice posting by Marco Russo (http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2010/01/26/memory-considerations-about-powerpivot-for-excel.aspx) . I strongly recommend it. The only additional point I would like to make is that the RTM version of PowerPivot has an additional check on the in-memory database when saving to disk. The CTP3 (and [...] LATE BREAKING NEWS: This appears to be an Office 2010 beta issue. Rumor has it (I will confirm later) that VSTO will be installed along with an Excel 2010-only install when Office ships next year. But it does impact us today. Sorry. The latest, late breaking news is that VSTO will continue to be installed [...] Well, I have a fun one today. We get asked all of the time about how the PowerPivot add-in works. Particularly how it relates to the SSAS components that BI Pros are used to, e.g. making connections to SSAS. As I am getting ready to write an architecture overview blog posting for the PowerPivot [...] |
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