A long time ago, but not in a galaxy too far away…actually, just in Redmond, WA,… there was A NEW HOPE for easier PowerPivot for SharePoint installations! So hats off to the Analysis Services product team for building an easier PowerPivot for SharePoint installation by providing us with the “New Server” installation choice. Yet, even [...]
Archive for August, 2010
PowerPivot for SharePoint: Single Server Installation
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Installation, SharePoint on August 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Analysis Services ROLAP for SQL Server Data Warehouses
Posted in Analysis Services, tagged Data Warehouse, Internals, Performance, ROLAP on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
You’re sh*&ting me. No way. Man, that sucks. rocks! – Toby Lee Shavers, from XXX (2002), altered of course! And before you start, yes, I’m starting to follow the schtick of quotes from fellow PowerPivot bloggers Rob Collie (@PowerPivotPro) and Kasper de Jonge (@Kjonge). For more memorable movie quotes, check out http://www.powerpivotpro.com/ . After about [...]
Help, my PowerPivot for SharePoint Lists Atom Feed has fallen and it can’t get up!
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged SharePoint, Troubleshooting on August 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
One of the cool things with PowerPivot is to click on an SharePoint List’s Export as Data Feed (i.e. an Atom feed) and its data can be imported directly into a PowerPivot for Excel workbook. To get this thing to work, one of the key things that I remind people regularly is to make sure [...]
PowerPivot Technical Diagram: PowerPivot Security Architecture
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Architecture, SharePoint on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you didn’t already know, we just uploaded the PowerPivot Security Architecture technical diagram on to sqlcat.com / MSDN. To get access to the PDF, XPS, and/or VSD files, please click through to: http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2010/08/17/powerpivot-technical-diagram-powerpivot-security-architecture.aspx Enjoy!

