By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on August 27th, 2010
Recently there have been several asks on the forums about getting more information for installing PowerPivot on a standalone server. Well . . . we have a video produced that addresses how to do this. Besides the installation itself, I also discuss how you go about adding the domain controller role to the server and [...]
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 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 [...]
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on November 6th, 2009
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 [...]
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