Jason Himmelstein presents Heavy Metal Power Pivot at SP Connections 2012

1. Heavy Metal PowerPivot
Cornelius J. van Dyk Jason Himmelstein
Crayveon Corporation Sentri, Inc
www.cjvandyk.com/blog www.sharepointlonghorn.com
c@sharepointmvp.net jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
@cjvandyk @sharepointlhorn

2. • SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri Inc.
• MCITP, MCTS SharePoint 2010
• Microsoft vTSP
● virtual Technology Solutions Professional
• SharePoint Foundation Logger
(http://spflogger.codeplex.com)
• Web: www.sentri.com
• Blog: www.sharepointlonghorn.com
• Twitter: @sharepointlhorn
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhimmelstein

3. • Chief SharePoint Architect, Crayveon
• 7 time Microsoft MVP
• MCITP, MCTS SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint Foundation Logger
(http://spflogger.codeplex.com)
• Blog: www.cjvandyk.com/blog
• Twitter: @cjvandyk
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvandyk

4. HEAVY METAL POWERPIVOT
• Architecture
• Installation
• In Action Examples
• Denali

5. Architecture
XML
SQL SSAS
Text
Oracle Informix
PowerPivot UDR
RSS
SharePoint DB2 Sybase
SSRS
Terra
Access Azure data

6. INSTALLING POWERPIVOT
• New 2010 farm
• Pre-existing 2010 farm

7. PRE-EXISTING 2010 FARM
• App Server
• SharePoint Admin Service account
• MS Data Access Engine 2010 Redist
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup in Admin mode

8. PRE-EXISTING 2010 FARM
• Add Features
• New Installation NOT Add Features
• SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
• HACK IT!

9. PRE-EXISTING 2010 FARM

10. PRE-EXISTING FARM – Hack Part
• ConfigurationFile.ini
• FARMADMINPORT
• Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SharePoint.Integration.dll
• http://bit.ly/PowerPivotDLL
• C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Setup
BootstrapSQLServer2008R2x64

11. DEMO
• Some cool examples of PowerPivot in action.

12. HEAVY METAL POWERPIVOT

13. New SQL Server 2012
Was Project Crescent Now Power View
Was Project Juneau SQL Server Data Tools

14. What’s new in SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot

15. SQL Server Denali PowerPivot
• Builds upon V1 release in SQL Server 2008 R2
• New administrative capabilities
● Lots of bug fixing, failover capabilities and scalability
enhancements
● Default allocation algorithm changed to health-based rather than
round-robin (means we are more responsive to low memory
situations
● More administrative controls:
• Manage the amount of database caching done on the app
servers
• database caching cleanup (based on inactivity)
• Disable data refresh jobs if they are constantly failing, or if
they succeed but are not being viewed

16. SQL Server Denali PowerPivot
(cont.)
• A new setup experience
• Rather than installing and configuring SharePoint directly, setup now
just lays down the bits and there is a new standalone configuration
wizard
• Capabilities:
● Wizard has both a one-click “GO” option as well as a
step-by-step experience
● Existing farm steps integrated with the wizard
● Individual steps can be scripted
● History is directly integrated into the tool
● Able to uninstall, upgrade, repair and patch separately

17. PowerPivot v2 Setup and Config...

49. The Code Behind the Build (copied from the UI)
# Open PowerShell library from: C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server110ToolsPowerPivotToolsConfigurationToolResourcesConfigurePowerPivot.ps1
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server110ToolsPowerPivotToolsConfigurationToolResourcesPowerPivotFarm.wsp'
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server110ToolsPowerPivotToolsConfigurationToolResourcesPowerPivotWebApp.wsp'
DeployFarmSolution
DeployWebAppSolutionToCentralAdmin
Install-SPFeature -path PowerPivot
Install-SPFeature -path PowerPivotAdmin
Install-SPFeature -path PowerPivotSite
SetEngineServiceCredentials 'spfloggerb_powerpivotv2' $password; New-PowerPivotEngineServiceInstance -Provision:$true
New-PowerPivotSystemServiceInstance -Provision:$true
New-PowerPivotServiceApplication -ServiceApplicationName 'PowerPivot Service Application' -DatabaseServerName 'SQL2012' -DatabaseName
'PowerPivotServiceApplicationDB' -AddToDefaultProxyGroup:$true;Set-PowerPivotSystemService -WorkbookUpgradeOnDataRefresh:$True -
Confirm:$false
DeployWebAppSolution 'http://sp2010sp1/' 2047
EnableSiteFeatures 'http://sp2010sp1' $true
StartService "Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.Claims.SPWindowsTokenServiceInstance"
UpdateSecureStoreMasterKey 'Secure Store Service Proxy' '********'
CreateUnattendedAccountForDataRefresh 'http://sp2010sp1' 'PowerPivotUnattendedAccount' 'PowerPivot Unattended Account for Data Refresh'
'SPFLOGGERb_spAdmin' $password
AddMSOLAP5AsECSTrustedProvider 'Excel Services Application'

50. SQL Server Denali PowerPivot
(cont.)
• Important note:
SharePoint SP1 is required for CTP3, RC0, and RTM
• SQL Setup will issue a warning if SharePoint SP1 has
not been installed when the PowerPivot bits are laid
down. This gives you some time to upgrade to SP SP1.
• However, if you still haven’t upgraded to SP1, by the
time you get to run the PowerPivot configuration wizard,
we will throw a fatal error and you will be blocked from
configuring your SharePoint farm until you upgrade to
SP1.

51. Gotchas!
The multi-server hiccup
CTP3 comes with TCPIP disabled
Until you enable this, no off server
communication will happen to SQL

52. Gotchas!
The single-server hiccup
Can’t log in to SharePoint locally?
Check your Loopback settings!

53. Special announcements
• Jason’s book coming for SharePoint and
SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence:

54. Handy Reference Information
• Useful Links
• http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com – Jase’s blog
– @sharepointlhorn
– jase@sharepointlonghorn.com
– http://aurl.to/v - THE Authoratative SharePoint Versions and Downloads list
• http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog - Corne’s blog
– @cjvandyk
– c@crayveon.com
• Microsoft References
● Microsoft Full Up BI Demo Machine
• http://www.mssalesdemos.com
• Download links
• http://powerpivotgeek.com
– Dave Wickert & Lee Graber (Microsoft Product Team Members)
» Best exclusively PowerPivot blog around
• http://spflogger.codeplex.com
– Its not PowerPivot, but its wicked cool so check it out!

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