You’re on your way to PowerPivot for SharePoint functionality – you’ve uploaded your PowerPivot for Excel workbook to your SharePoint PowerPivot Gallery. You view the thumbnails of your report and they look nice. From the thumbnail, you click on the report you want to see, and the report renders nicely. But then you [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Troubleshooting #PowerPivot Excel Services connectivity
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Connectivity, Excel Services, SharePoint on November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
SharePoint Prerequisite Lab Installation Tip (#PowerPivot CTP3 Install)
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged CTP3, SharePoint on November 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
When you install SharePoint Beta 2 to go with your PowerPivot for SharePoint CTP3 install, some will install SharePoint on a set of servers (or VMs) that do not have internet connectivity. The first step to installing SharePoint Beta 2 is to run the SharePoint Prerequisite Installer. If you are in a lab environment that [...]
New Location
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2009 | 100 Comments »
After pondering for awhile, I had decided to create a new blog using WordPress and have shifted the blogs to my new site. Come check it out at: http://dennyglee.com. Thanks!
What happens when you run a Data Refresh within #PowerPivot for SharePoint?
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Data Refresh, Internals, SharePoint on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was just recently asked the question by a fellow Analysis Services expert (Greg Galloway): When you have SharePoint automate a data refresh for a PowerPivot workbook, is the new data saved back into the xlsx? So if I download the xlsx onto my laptop the next day, will I see fresh data? Also, if [...]
Understanding why an Excel PowerPivot workbook is so large
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Excel, workbook on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During my and Dave Wickert’s SQLPASS session (SQLCAT: A Preview to PowerPivot Best Practices), we had shown to the audience how to view and better understand the PowerPivot database file structure within the Excel workbook. First of all, I’d like to give credit where credit is due – and the thanks really should go to [...]

