By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on May 12th, 2010
For those who would looking for specific downloads of the PowerPivot for Excel 2010 RTM bits , here they are:
Important : If you install the 32-bit version of Excel 2010, you must use the 32-bit version of PowerPivot. If you install the 64-bit version of Excel 2010, you must use the 64-bit version of PowerPivot.
PowerPivot [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on April 27th, 2010
Recently we have been seeing some users complain about how the PowerPivot Excel client add-in deals with queries. There are three limitations that you need deal with when working with SQL (TSQL, PL/SQL, or whatever) and stored procedures:
The result set must have a name associated with each column. If you are not returning the column [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on April 7th, 2010
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
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on April 2nd, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on March 24th, 2010
From time to time we get questions about these three topics. Let’s take them one at a time and see how PowerPivot works under the covers. PowerPivot works on all types of collations, languages and regional settings.
(if you like this kind of ‘internationalization stuff’, read on)
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on March 4th, 2010
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
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on February 24th, 2010
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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on February 3rd, 2010
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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 18th, 2009
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 [...]
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