For your PowerPivot Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and random thoughts!
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on February 24th, 2010
A trick for the client-side folks doing build-to-build reinstallations (or if you wish to clear all of the PowerPivot code from your client): besides uninstalling “Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel” (via control panel Add/Remove/Uninstall Programs, the exact wording varies depending on the OS you are running), you may also have to delete files in:
For those of you who are using Windows 7 client, you should be good-to-go already because you already have Desktop Experience installed. But if you are using a Windows Server OS (e.g. Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2), you will need to install it as part of an additional feature via the Server Manager.
Why you ask?
By powerpivotgeek (dwickert@microsoft.com), on February 15th, 2010
Recently there have been some discussions on the forums and in other areas concerning how PowerPivot handles nulls. As this has changed between CTP3 (back in November) and the upcoming RTM of the product, I thought that it would be a good posting. Here is the situation: suppose you have a simple calculated measure:
January 15, 2010 by dennyglee
When you start playing with the PowerPivot Gallery, some of you will be enamored by the various views of the Silverlight control included as part of the PowerPivot Gallery – I know I was!
