Mixed Bag: Troubleshooting Reports and Viewing MDX in Excel 2007

russch — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:35:00 GMT

Just making note of two very worthwhile blog entries I've seen over the last few days.

In this post, Lukasz Pawlowski provides us with a nice top-to bottom SSRS troubleshooting approach with links to additional information on most troubleshooting topics

...and here, Marco Russo writes some simple but awesome code which will allow you to view the MDX Excel 2007 generates for you when using a PivotTable. This is invaluable for those of us who don't have ProClarity Desktop installed on each and every one of our machines...

Data Refresh in Excel Services fails with "SSO has failed with the following error code -2140995579, exception: Error in the application"

russch — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:37:00 GMT

I've been playing quite a bit with Excel Services the last few weeks, and ran into a problem around refreshing data in a worksheet stored in Excel Services when I used Single Sign On (SSO) in the ODC.

I also noticed that each time my report failed to refresh data, the error in the subject of this post got dumped into the event log.

I asked for help, then did some digging. Turns out this error is one of those "by design" (or, "by bad design") issues. Some of you might call it a bug :)

In essence, if the account you use for the Shared Services Provider (as in "SharedServices1") is different than your Farm and/or SSO Account identities, you'll get this error. They must all be the same, even though I didn't see this documented anywhere (and to be fair, I haven't spent tons of time looking).

Thanks to Chris Nicholas for his help on this problem!

Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings : Excel 2007

Mixed Bag: Troubleshooting Reports and Viewing MDX in Excel 2007

Data Refresh in Excel Services fails with "SSO has failed with the following error code -2140995579, exception: Error in the application"