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PowerPivot for SharePoint - Browser Refresh Fails (Data Refresh not supported...
We have been seeing Excel Services/PowerPivot data refresh issues using SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps (OWA). Some customers have been running into issues when attempting to refresh data in a...
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What is PowerPivot for SharePoint? Part 1.
I find myself explaining PowerPivot to customers over and over. Most understand parts of how it works but not the whole story. I will touch on two parts; PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for...
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What is PowerPivot for SharePoint? Part 2.
Now that we have a PowerPivot workbook in the Excel Rich Client, we are ready to publish that workbook to SharePoint.In "What is Power Pivot for SharePoint? Part 1" I discussed the Data Model and how...
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Excel Services - Query Warning
You may receive the following warning dialog box when opening a workbook using Excel Services in SharePoint: Be careful. This workbook contains one or more queries that might be unsafe. Do you want...
View ArticlePowerPivot addin for Excel fails to refresh when SQL authentication and Save...
Issue: The PowerPivot addin for Excel is used to create a PowerPivot model using SQL Server as a data source and the user manually uses the Excel connections screen to have the password be saved. Later...
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PowerPivot for SharePoint – Server Configuration Check
Every once in awhile, you will get an error where you cannot Slice to the Data Model. "PivotTable Operation FailedAn error occurred while working on theData Model in the workbook. Please try again."...
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Excel Services – Consuming a SharePoint List using the ListData.svc
Here are the steps I performed to Consume a SharePoint List in Excel Services (SharePoint On Premise): I created a list at this location:...
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PowerPivot for SharePoint – Error when running PowerPivot Configuration Tool:...
You may receive the following error when running the PowerPivot Configuration Tool on a SharePoint application server running PowerPivot for SharePoint: The user is not a farm administrator. Please...
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"PowerPivot Management Dashboard ProcessingTimer Job" throws error "User...
Updated 9/22/2015 After migrating from a SharePoint 2010 site using Classic Mode Authentication(default) to SharePoint 2013 site in claims mode (default again) using database attach, you will run into...
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Configuring the MSOLAP data provider version
When you create a data connection to an Analysis Services data source in Microsoft Excel, the Microsoft Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft SQL Server (MSOLAP) is used for the data...
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Excel Services and PowerPivot error: "Retrieving the COM class factory for...
When you open a workbook in the browser using Excel Services and get an error, or when a scheduled data refresh fails in PowerPivot for SharePoint, you may see the following error in the ULS logs:...
View ArticleFind large files across multiple SharePoint content databases
Overview: This blog post contains a tool that will query all content databases on a SQL server looking for files of a given extension and size, it will output a report file that can be loaded into...
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PowerPivot Workbooks as a Data Source
We have been seeing some issues with customers using PowerPivot workbooks as a source file in new Excel PowerPivot files. There are a variety of errors that can arise from this process, and this blog...
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PowerPivot for Excel –“Memory error”
You may receive the following error when attempting a data refresh using PowerPivot for Excel: Memory error: Allocation failure : Not enough storage is available to process this command. . If using...
View ArticleExcel Services crashes continuously
You may experience Excel Services crashing continuously after applying a patch to SharePoint 2013. The issue can be resolved by following these steps: 1. Make sure that the account running Excel...
View ArticleThird Party Data Refresh Tools and Negative Interaction with PowerPivot for...
Recently we have seen multiple instances where custom 3rd party tools/scripts are being used to bypass the standard daily scheduled data refresh limit for PowerPivot workbooks. The main reason we have...
View ArticleSQL 2016 PowerPivot Analysis Services Fails on Default Instance
Scenario: You are installing PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 (or 2013) using SQL 2016 and you notice that you are no-longer restricted to having the instance name “POWERPIVOT” to make it function. As...
View ArticleExcel Online Cross Forest KCD Data Refresh Not Supported
Scenario: You configure Office Online Server with SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 and have configured Kerberos Constrained Delegation to a data warehouse to pull business intelligence data for your...
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Changes to PowerPivot Gallery and Snapshots in SharePoint 2016
The PowerPivot Gallery has had some functionality and supportability changes between SharePoint 2013/2010 and SharePoint 2016. This is due to the fact that Excel Services functionality has moved to...
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The resource object with key ‘DataRefresh_Warning_DataSources’ was not found
If you have not already installed SQL 2012 SP3 CU6 or CU7 on your PowerPivot for SharePoint Analysis Services instance and/or the MSI DO NOT PROCEED WITH THE INSTALLATION! A recent product issue was...
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