By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on June 14th, 2010
If you are running PowerPivot for SharePoint on more than one backend app server, then it is a common issue that folks are seeing only one server being used. It turns out that this might be ‘by-design’ so let’s talk about it for a bit. Let’s look at the two allocation methods we support:
Round-robin (the [...]
By Lee Graber (leegr@microsoft.com), on May 21st, 2010
As noted in a previous blog post on debugging “The data connection uses windows authentication and user credentials could not be delegated” there are times (very rare times) when the issue is a problem with your Active Directory configuration. I want to reiterate that this is rare and it is usually something as simple as [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on April 2nd, 2010
Recently I have been getting some questions about an earlier post that I did around how the PowerPivot inactivity unloading is done. see http://powerpivotgeek.com/2010/03/04/a-peek-inside-unloading-powerpivot-data/ for more details. Surely there must be a faster mechanism for unloading data – and there is – but to fully discuss that aspect of the system we need to take [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on March 4th, 2010
Ok folks. Here comes a cool one.
As I am sure that everyone is aware by now, one of the most powerful new features of PowerPivot is that we do on-demand loading of embedded data. Well, if you are going to load it, then you had better at least think about unload it at some time. [...]
By Lee Graber (leegr@microsoft.com), on February 8th, 2010
This is one of the two main errors that users could see from Excel Services when using PowerPivot. This is encountered when refreshing PowerPivot data connections or performing an action which requires re-querying the PowerPivot database, such as clicking on a slicer or expanding a node in a pivot table. To debug, some level of [...]
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