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 March 4th, 2010
So you think that you have done everything right, but still SQL setup (in PowerPivot SharePoint integration mode) still reports “You don’t have a ‘Complete’ SharePoint installation.” How can this happen?
You might not have followed the installation guide. It tells you to first select “Farm” and then “Complete” on your first two screens after you [...]
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 Lee Graber (leegr@microsoft.com), on January 22nd, 2010
A number of people have had issues with PowerPivot installation failures in CTP3. Hopefully, we have resolved all of these for RTM, but I can tell you that setup is still a bit tricky. To give you something of an understanding, the “New Farm” installation option is responsible for getting your machine up and running [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on December 29th, 2009
I have just completed the final two pages for the server installation section of the blog (see here for details). These sections cover:
(3) To install PowerPivot on a new single server with a dedicated DB server, click here. Use this document to install and configure PowerPivot for SharePoint on a single server SharePoint 2010 farm [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 20th, 2009
Just posted: a new section of the blog (http://powerpivotgeek.com/server-installation/) dedicated to detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to install PowerPivot for SharePoint in common configurations, such as an “All-In-1” server, or an existing SharePoint farm, etc. Ultimately we expect most of this information to be in Microsoft white papers, but you get to see it first [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 18th, 2009
Rather than list all of the links, I will just point to PowerPivot.com. It has a very nice consolidated ‘cheat sheet’: http://www.powerpivot.com/download.aspx – I have just one strong suggestion. Until mid-to-late December, I strongly suggest that if you are going to install PowerPivot for SharePoint that you use Windows 2008 SP2 as your base OS [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 17th, 2009
For several reasons I have recently been playing around with installing PowerPivot for SharePoint on various configurations. See an earlier post about taking PowerPivot off the network – learned that one the hard way when I took my laptop to the SharePoint Conference this month. Well, I ran into another one – installing PowerPivot on [...]
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