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Three new ‘Reported Problems’

I have just updated the ‘Reported Problems’ page (http://powerpivotgeek.com/server-installation/reported-problems/) with three new CTP3 reported problems. These have all been fixed in the RTM release.

Updated “Reported Problems” page

The PowerPivot for SharePoint forum (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlkjpowerpointforsharepoint/ ) has just reported several new known problems and their workarounds. I’ve summarized and restructured them a bit in my “Reported Problems” page (http://powerpivotgeek.com/server-installation/reported-problems/). Enjoy.

And oh, you need this one more thing

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 [...]

SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP (including PowerPivot for SharePoint) released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers today

SQL Server 2008 R2 released to the web today for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. According to the announcement, non-subscribers will be able to access the download Wednesday, November 11th. To install PowerPivot for SharePoint you will need SharePoint 2010 beta (being released next week or the week after).  For the matching PowerPivot for Excel CTP3, [...]

Taking your PowerPivot server off the network

Do you travel with your laptop? Are you running Windows Server 2008 (or R2) on it? Is it a 64-bit OS? Does it have enough memory to run a VM of the PowerPivot server components? (4GB will just do it, but 8GB is better – with 6GB reserved to the SharePoint image) Are you running [...]