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Comment on Health rule error reports: “PowerPivot: The deployed farm solution is not up-to-date.” by Justin Wyatt

Justin Wyatt — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:38:54 +0000

I’ve restored from backup, redeployed powerpivot according to the articles listed on Microsoft’s website. I also applied SQL Server R2 SP1. It still thinks my web front ends are not up to date.

Help Please

Comment on PowerPivot and Windows 7 by powerpivotgeek

powerpivotgeek — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:49:52 +0000

Kevin: Sure I do it all of the time. Make sure that your bitness matches Excel desktop (32bit for 32bit and 64bit for 64bit) and ensure you have the matching VSTO as well.

Comment on Enable the ‘Desktop Experience’ feature in Windows Server by lokesh

lokesh — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:17:03 +0000

How i can use Desktop Experience feture in in workgroup when al system is working of window 7

Comment on PowerPivot and Windows 7 by Kevin Gould

Kevin Gould — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:47:15 +0000

Has anyone been able to install any version of PowerPivot on Windows 7 64bit desktop.

Comment on Health rule error reports: “PowerPivot: The deployed farm solution is not up-to-date.” by Justin Wyatt

Justin Wyatt — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:25:10 +0000

Has anyone come across a solution for this yet?

Comment on Health rule error reports: “PowerPivot: The deployed farm solution is not up-to-date.” by Justin Wyatt

Justin Wyatt — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:38:05 +0000

Both of WFE servers are showing as failing servers on the health check.

Am I supposed to install sql and powerpivot on them as well?

I thought I only had to have it on the application server.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Comment on PowerPivot for Excel add-in is not coming up in Excel by Ed

Ed — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:20:47 +0000

After 8 hours of trying numerous fixes, uninstalls, installs, repairs, .net 3.5 vs 4.0, visual studio 2010, etc, I still could not get my PowerPivot ribbon to show up in Excel 2010 (windows 7 32 bit). Oh, also, like many I could see the PowerPivot .Com add-in but when I checked it, clicked Ok, it still didn’t show up and going back to the Add-in options it would be unchecked.

Here is the work around I found. In Excel, go to File, Options, Add-Ins, select Excel Add-Ins in lower left and hit go. Uncheck Solver and hit Ok (if already unchecked, hit Ok). Now repeat File, Options, Add-Ins, Excel Add-Ins, Go and Check Solver and hit OK. Now immediately do File, Options, Add-Ins, Com Add-ins, Go, check PowerPivot for Excel and hit OK. Powerpivot now shows up in the Ribbon. There must be a connection or conflict between Solver and PowerPivot. Next I am going to try and find the order the two are loaded when just opening Excel 2010, but I don’t know where to go to find that.

I hope this helps others from spending 8 hours and then stubbling across a strange fix.

Comment on General problems with Gallery snapshots not being taken – no items listed in the ULS log by Manuel

Manuel — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:15:26 +0000

Thi solution worked for me: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2361559

Comment on How much data can I load into PowerPivot? by George Kokas

George Kokas — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:36:17 +0000

The size limit is REALLY unfortunate – regretfully, we have to abandon PowerPivot due to this. We use the 64 bit OS and Office to eliminate just these kinds of memory limiations; I was astounded to find this ‘gocha!’ in PowerPivot. We don’t ever use SharePoint. Please make it high priority to ELIMINATE THIS ILL-ADVISED FILE SIZE CONSTRAINT ASAP IN THE NEXT MAINTENANCE RELEASE.

Comment on Whitepaper: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PowerPivot Data Refresh but Were Afraid to Ask” by Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:32:41 +0000

Hi, how can I refresh a power pivot cube on my windows phone Lumia 800 or Apple Ipad? Our company cubes refreshes every hour. Thanks, eagerly awaiting your suggestions…..