PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 error “We cannot locate a server to load the...
Scenario: You install PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 (or PowerBI Report Server) and use SQL 2017 as the data model server (Analysis Services in SharePoint mode). You have configured Office Online...
View ArticleSharePoint 2016 Excel Web Access Web Part Error “We couldn’t find the file...
We recently encountered an issue with the Excel Web Access Web Part we thought we needed to make the community aware of as the cause of the issue is not super evident. Scenario: You are attempting to...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 – Error when trying to schedule a data...
You may see the following error on when trying to schedule a data refresh of a PowerPivot workbook in SharePoint 2016: Sorry, something went wrong. The SharePoint ULS logs might show the following...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 – Email notifications are not sent for...
You may encounter an issue with email notifications not getting sent for scheduled data refresh failures of PowerPivot workbooks in PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016. This error is caused by a bug in...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 – Scheduled Data Refresh error: “The virtual...
You may receive the following error when running a scheduled data refresh of a PowerPivot workbook in SharePoint 2016: The virtual path '/......xlsx' maps to another application, which is not...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 Gallery Snapshots Fail for SSL Host Header Sites
If you have been following the multiple threads on issues and changes to the PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 Gallery Snapshots, you may be aware of an issue where gallery snapshots do not function...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 Scheduled Data Refresh Error: “The operation...
UPDATE: 4/25/17: PowerShell to increase timeout included in workaround section. Scenario: You create a PowerPivot workbook with one or more data sources and upload it to SharePoint 2016. You then...
View ArticleThe resource object with key ‘DataRefresh_Warning_DataSources’ was not found
If you have not already installed SQL 2012 SP3 CU6 or CU7 on your PowerPivot for SharePoint Analysis Services instance and/or the MSI DO NOT PROCEED WITH THE INSTALLATION! A recent product issue was...
View ArticleChanges to PowerPivot Gallery and Snapshots in SharePoint 2016
The PowerPivot Gallery has had some functionality and supportability changes between SharePoint 2013/2010 and SharePoint 2016. This is due to the fact that Excel Services functionality has moved to...
View ArticleExcel Online Cross Forest KCD Data Refresh Not Supported
Scenario: You configure Office Online Server with SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 and have configured Kerberos Constrained Delegation to a data warehouse to pull business intelligence data for your...
View ArticleSQL 2016 PowerPivot Analysis Services Fails on Default Instance
Scenario: You are installing PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016 (or 2013) using SQL 2016 and you notice that you are no-longer restricted to having the instance name “POWERPIVOT” to make it function. As...
View ArticleThird Party Data Refresh Tools and Negative Interaction with PowerPivot for...
Recently we have seen multiple instances where custom 3rd party tools/scripts are being used to bypass the standard daily scheduled data refresh limit for PowerPivot workbooks. The main reason we have...
View ArticleExcel Services crashes continuously
You may experience Excel Services crashing continuously after applying a patch to SharePoint 2013. The issue can be resolved by following these steps: 1. Make sure that the account running Excel...
View ArticlePowerPivot for Excel –“Memory error”
You may receive the following error when attempting a data refresh using PowerPivot for Excel: Memory error: Allocation failure : Not enough storage is available to process this command. . If using...
View ArticlePowerPivot Workbooks as a Data Source
We have been seeing some issues with customers using PowerPivot workbooks as a source file in new Excel PowerPivot files. There are a variety of errors that can arise from this process, and this blog...
View ArticleFind large files across multiple SharePoint content databases
Overview: This blog post contains a tool that will query all content databases on a SQL server looking for files of a given extension and size, it will output a report file that can be loaded into...
View ArticleExcel Services and PowerPivot error: "Retrieving the COM class factory for...
When you open a workbook in the browser using Excel Services and get an error, or when a scheduled data refresh fails in PowerPivot for SharePoint, you may see the following error in the ULS logs:...
View ArticleConfiguring the MSOLAP data provider version
When you create a data connection to an Analysis Services data source in Microsoft Excel, the Microsoft Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft SQL Server (MSOLAP) is used for the data...
View Article"PowerPivot Management Dashboard ProcessingTimer Job" throws error "User...
Updated 9/22/2015 After migrating from a SharePoint 2010 site using Classic Mode Authentication(default) to SharePoint 2013 site in claims mode (default again) using database attach, you will run into...
View ArticlePowerPivot for SharePoint – Error when running PowerPivot Configuration Tool:...
You may receive the following error when running the PowerPivot Configuration Tool on a SharePoint application server running PowerPivot for SharePoint: The user is not a farm administrator. Please...
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