PowerPivot for SharePoint Quick tip: Don’t forget to install Desktop Experience
For those of you who are using Windows 7 client, you should be good-to-go already because you already have Desktop Experience installed. But if you are using a Windows Server OS (e.g. Windows Server...
View ArticleUninstalling PowerPivot for Excel
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on February 24th, 2010 A trick for the client-side folks doing build-to-build reinstallations (or if you wish to clear all of the PowerPivot code from your...
View ArticleNow that PowerPivot has RTM…
As per many blog postings, press releases, tweets, messages, and streams – PowerPivot went RTM on the 5/12. So what can or should we do now? Here’s some quick great blog postings to get yourself up...
View ArticleHierarchies, Oh Hierarchies…where are thou? (in PowerPivot)
I had a great question from a customer concerning something weird happening with PowerPivot relationships. In this example, we have two tables such as city and state. With the City-State mapping...
View ArticlePowerPivotGeek’s Tips, How-to, and A Peek Inside!
PowerPivotGeek has been doing a lot of GREAT posts the last week and its getting harder and harder to keep up with greatness! Saying this, here are some great tips, how-to, and A Peek Inside! Tips!...
View ArticleDelegation, Claims, Active Directory….Again?! Frak!
May 23, 2010 by dennyglee | Edit As you may have noted in my original posting Delegation, Claims, Active Directory…Oh My!…Aw Crap!, it quickly described how to solve issues surrounding the delegation...
View ArticleModifying the SharePoint v4.master page for the PowerPivot Gallery
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@hotmail.com), on June 17th, 2010 Attempting to use a modified version of the SharePoint v4.master page is a great way to style our SharePoint site. If you interested in...
View ArticleClient: What happens if I install the wrong ‘bitness’?
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on June 17th, 2010 Recently ran into this situation: Customer installed the wrong PowerPivot bits on their machine. They were running on a 64-bit OS with...
View ArticleWorking with the 2010 Office ACE provider
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on August 18th, 2010 Ok. I’ve promised some best practices – here is my first one. What is the 2010 Office ACE provider and why is this important to...
View ArticleHow much data can I load into PowerPivot?
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on August 22nd, 2010 Recently a question has come up on one of the forums about the number of rows that PowerPivot can load. Clearly PowerPivot can hold a...
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