In homage to Rob Collie’s blog posting style (yes!…he has style, he has grace, …) and of course the movie “Dude, Where’s my Car?”, let’s ask a new question: Dude, where’s my PowerPivot workbook? And before you ask, we’re not talking about searching for the workbook somewhere in your “My Documents” folder, USB drive or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Excel Services’
Dude, Where’s my PowerPivot workbook?
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Connectivity, Excel Services, SharePoint on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Delegation, Claims, Active Directory…Oh My!…Aw Crap!
Posted in PowerPivot, SharePoint, tagged Active Directory, Configuration, Delegation, Excel Services, FAQ, Troubleshooting, Upgrade on April 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Heads up, this posting’s title was “User credentials could not be delegated and Active Directory” but I realized I needed a title that evoked my emotional state Do not fret or worry, this is not “yet another user credentials delegation” blog. After all, there are already the postings including Troubleshooting #PowerPivot Excel Services connectivity (written [...]
Ramblings about missing time … and #PowerPivot sneak peek!
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Book, Configuration, Connectivity, Design, Excel Services, FAQ, Internals, SharePoint, Troubleshooting on April 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Wow, I just checked and its been more than a month since I did my last blog post! So for starters, apologies for the lack of cool PowerPivot stuff on this blog. But it’s not like I haven’t been tweeting about PowerPivot…thank goodness I can easily retweet or type 140 characters! (follow me @dennylee) But [...]
Granting Excel Services access rights to your #PowerPivot for SharePoint Farm
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Excel Services on February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In many of test PowerPivot for SharePoint deployments, the SharePoint Farm Administrator is used for all services including Excel Services during installation or configuration. This is a great and easy way to get yourself up and running fast. But a best practice is to use a different managed account for the application pool that Excel [...]
Troubleshooting #PowerPivot Excel Services connectivity
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Connectivity, Excel Services, SharePoint on November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]

