New post on the PowerPivot blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/archive/2012/11/05/configuring-a-min-priv-environment-for-powerpivot-for-sharepoint-2013.aspx Best, Mariano

Este foi o draft enviado à Mundo .Net que foi publicado na edição de Outubro de 2010 ( http://www.mundodotnet.com.br ): Dê poder aos usuários com Self-Service BI Em termos gerais, Business Intelligence (BI) engloba...

My work at Microsoft involves using lots of Virtual Machines and snapshotting their states along the way. Every now and then the physical host machine needs to be reimaged, and not always the virtual machines have been exported (to be imported back, if...

My article on PowerPivot and Self-Service Bi made the cover at Mundo.Net Magazine this month (in Portuguese). Ref.: http://www.mundodotnet.com.br/conteudo.shtml

Let's assume that for some reason something got corrupted and you want to regenerate the thumbnails for a given workbook in a PowerPivot Gallery. You can either change the properties for the workbook, which will create an event that will trigger the regeneration...

This post is a compilation of the currently published technical articles and white paper on PowerPivot for SharePoint available at the MSDN library: PowerPivot for SharePoint: Existing Farm Installation PowerPivot for SharePoint: Single Server Installation...

I’ve been the owner of the PowerPivot for SharePoint Stress and R&R testing for the past year (not that somebody else was the owner before) and just recently the Performance testing owner and I started revisiting our approaches going further...

It turns out that it's pretty straightforward joyful thing to do. The Analysis Services server, PowerPivot included, uses the SQL Server setup infrastructure, and so does its setup logging. First off, you go where the logs are placed. You can find...

Hello there, I'm a software design engineer in test at the SQL Server Analysis Services team. For the last three years I've been working on the development of PowerPivot for SharePoint, which is internally (to the AS team) known as the MidTier team...