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A new Diagnostic Guide posted in the Troubleshooting section

I just posted a new diagnostic guide in the troubleshooting section:

“Diagnostic Guide for Usage and the PowerPivot Management Dashboard” by Ankur Goyal
http://powerpivotgeek.com/troubleshooting/diagnostic-guide-for-usage-and-the-powerpivot-management-dashboard/

Enjoy!

_-_-_ Dave

How to start debugging a PowerPivot for SharePoint installation issue

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 [...]

Could not load type ‘Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SharePoint.Integration.ReportGalleryView’.

A number of people have hit this issue and so it deserves a quick walkthrough of why it (unfortunately) can happen and how you fix it.

The error occurs when you try to select a Document Library of type PowerPivot Gallery (sometimes referred to as Report Gallery). After installing Power Pivot for SharePoint, all new [...]

Why you shouldn’t stop / start Analysis Services from SCM when running in SharePoint Integration Mode

Hopefully this will be my first of many posts as I have been meaning to try and start doing memory dumps to this blog. Hopefully some of those memory dumps also made it into our docs … I tried.

So most people who are used to using Windows based services are used to using Service Control [...]

New section called “Troubleshooting”

You might have noticed that I’ve added a new section to my blog called “Troubleshooting” (see here). I have a series of TechEd and internal presentations that I have to prepare for and I thought that sharing the information with you might be interesting. Hopefully you will find it useful. Again, as always, feedback and [...]