Chapter 18. PowerPivot Issues

Because PowerPivot is an add-in to Excel with a complementary service in SharePoint, troubleshooting PowerPivot issues essentially comes down to troubleshooting Excel and SharePoint.

Those familiar with SharePoint will know that the Unified Logging Service (ULS) logs are the best place to look for issues with web front-end servers (WFEs), service problems, and so on.

Those familiar with troubleshooting databases will know that tracing the interaction with the database is the best place to look for data issues. In addition, because PowerPivot for Excel can serve as a sort of database, Microsoft has ...

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