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Cheat sheets on how to install the server

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 [...]

Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint on a domain controller

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 [...]

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 [...]