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Excel Services does a good job of rendering Excel spreadsheets with a high degree of fidelity. In other words, what you see in Excel is what you will see in Excel Services. Excel, however, is incredibly feature rich, comprising features added over decades
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Following on the heels of the Office 2010 beta availability announcement, the Office Web Apps blog has a new post discussing deploying office web apps in the enterprise . Have a read if you're looking to test drive the beta version of Office Web Apps
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From the Office 2010 Engineering blog : Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d
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Thanks to John Campbell for putting together this post. Ongoing management is key to any successful server product’s deployment. It can be challenging to figure out the right initial combination of settings, and to know how to further change those settings
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Thanks to Dan Parish for putting together this post. One of the great things about Excel Services is the Excel Web Access (EWA) web part. This web part allows you to render entire workbooks, or just portions of a workbook (for example a chart or a Table)
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One of our most senior developers on Excel Services, Shahar Prish, is busy writing posts in his blog on the new programmability features in the 2010 version of Excel Services. The first set of posts talk about REST and moving forward he will expand to
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Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. In this final installment on the REST API, we’ll walk through a couple examples of using the REST API to embed spreadsheet data in new and interesting ways. Embedding a ‘Live’
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Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. As we saw in the previous post , using the Excel Services REST API is as simple as specifying a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) in your web browser. In this post we’ll walk
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Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. Beginning our journey on all things Excel Services 2010, I thought I’d start off with a feature that’s been getting a lot of buzz lately since its introduction at the SharePoint
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Thanks to Steve Tullis for putting together this post. Before delving into Excel Services 2010, I want to recap a point that some readers may not be aware of. The Excel team is delivering two browser-based solutions as part of the Office 2010 wave of
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This article continues the series on PowerPivot that started with an overview as well as an introduction to PowerPivot for Excel 2010. We’ll now focus on the support PowerPivot provides for collaboration. Frequently, business users need to share applications
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In this blog article, we’ll step through using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 for building a rich application in Excel. Note: following screenshots describe the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) functionality for a feature codenamed
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More info and a fun video here: http://powerpivot.com/
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Today we have a guest author from the SQL Server Analysis Services team, Ashvini Sharma, to tell us about the PowerPivot (née Gemini) feature that you may have heard about recently. PowerPivot is the recently announced name of technologies this blog previously
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Today at the SharePoint conference the Office Developer Marketing Team announced the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program . Details were posted today at Gray Knowlton's blog . Here's an excerpt from his post: With the great value Office 2010
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