By now, most of you have probably encountered the following common error while attempting to load legacy Excel workbooks (*.xls). If you didn't, you must have read-up extensively on MSDN. (Congrats to you!) File Format Well, the reason why this...

For anyone who is interested in learning more about Excel Services, this is one of my favorite books (not only because it's written by my colleagues): I highly recommend reading this one!

Excel Services is an enterprise-class application server that is geared towards performance, scalability, and security. Trusted Locations is one of the many excellent example of how Excel Services offer security when managing access to workbooks on the...

I had an interesting discussion over lunch yesterday. Someone asked me to explain to them what Stored Procedures are and how their businesses could benefit from using them. Firstly, let me start by saying that I love Stored Procedures (sprocs). I developed...

I have recently received countless request on providing more information regarding Excel Services installation on a Server Machine (Windows 2003). In this blog post, I will outline a quick overview of a Standalone installation for both 32 bits and 64...

Excel Services is a brand new server technology that enables you to Load, Calculate, and Display Excel workbooks on an Office SharePoint Server. Excel Services is currently released with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. There are essentially...