Jason Himmestein & Cornelius J. van Dyk present at TEC2012 on the topic of Heavy Metal PowerPivot ReMastered

1. Heavy Metal PowerPivot
ReMastered
Jason Himmelstein &
Cornelius J. van Dyk

2. • SharePoint Practice Director, Sentri Inc.
• 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 Architect, Crayveon Corporation
• 7 time MVP, MCITP, MCTS
• Blog: www.cjvandyk.com/blog
• Twitter: @cjvandyk
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvandyk

4. • Architecture
• Installation
• SharePoint & PowerPivot
• PowerPivot in Action (demo time)

6. Changes in Terminology
Codename Denali SQL Server 2012
Project Crescent Power View
Project Juneau SQL Server Data Tools
Veritpaq Engine xVelocity In-Memory Analytics
Engine
Vertipaq for PowerPivot xVelocity for Business Intelligence

7. How does it work?

8. Microsoft Business Intelligence
Most Broadly adopted
Productivity &
SharePoint SharePoint Excel PowerPivot Collaboration Tools
Dashboards & Collaboration Workbooks Applications
Scorecards
Analysis Reporting
Services Services
Most widely deployed EIM
& BI Platform
Integration Master Data
Services Services
LOB Odata
Apps Feeds

9. ANALYSIS SERVICES ARCHITECTURE
Internet Explorer SharePoint
SQL Server Data Tools
Power View
Excel Services
Reporting Services
PowerPivot for
xlsx
Excel
Analysis Services
PowerPivot for
SharePoint
(Analysis Services)
Excel
BI Semantic Model
xlsx
Third Party Apps
Personal BI Team BI Corporate BI

10. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Server, Services, and Components
SharePoint Farm c2wts/proxy
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy TCP
MSOLAP Driver
HTTP
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Excel Services
Service VertiPaq Mode
PowerPivot Services Data sources

11. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Rendering the PowerPivot Workbook
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources

12. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Rendering the PowerPivot Workbook
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP c:Program
Excel Services Files...OLAPBacku
Application Proxy p
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources

13. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
PowerPivot does NOT require Kerberos
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources

14. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Server Action
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
SQL Server
WFE App Content
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources

15. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Server Action > c2wts

16. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Server Action > c2wts
SharePoint Farm
c2wts
WFE App
Excel Calculation
Client Excel Web Access Content
Services
MSOLAP
Excel Services
Application Proxy
Channel
Excel Web Service
PowerPivot Service
Application Proxy
Excel Calc Services
PowerPivot System
Service
PowerPivot Web Analysis Services in
Service VertiPaq Mode
Data sources

17. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Server Action
SharePoint Farm
WFE App
Client Content
c:Program
Files...OLAPBacku
p
ImageLoad
Data sources

18. POWERPIVOT FOR SHAREPOINT
Load Balancing
SharePoint Farm
By default, set to
round-robin
App1 App2 health allocation
Testing notes that
BP to set to
health-based
allocation
Uses more
resources than
round-robin
BUT, pro-actively
evicts
unnecessary
VertiPaq dBs
when under
memory pressure

20. Installing PowerPivot
• PowerPivot v1 for SQL 2008 R2
– New 2010 farm
– Pre-existing 2010 farm
• PowerPivot v2 for SQL 2012
– Stand alone install
– Wizard driven
– PowerShell

21. Installing PowerPivot 2008 R2

22. Installing PowerPivot v1 / 2008 R2
• New 2010 farm
• Pre-existing 2010 farm

23. Pre-existing 2010 Farm
• App Server
• SharePoint Admin Service account
• MS Data Access Engine 2010 Redist
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup in Admin mode

24. Pre-existing 2010 Farm
• Add Features
• New Installation NOT Add Features
• SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
• HACK IT!

25. Pre-existing 2010 Farm

26. Pre-existing 2010 Farm – Hack Part
• ConfigurationFile.ini
• FARMADMINPORT
• Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SharePoint.Integration.dll
• http://bit.ly/PowerPivotDLL
• C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Setup
BootstrapSQLServer2008R2x64

27. Installing PowerPivot v2 / SQL 2012

56. The Code Behind the Build
# 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'

59. SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot
• Builds upon V1 release in SQL Server 2008 R2
• New administrative capabilities
– Lots of bug fixes
– Default allocation algorithm changed to health-based rather than
round-robin
– 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

60. SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot
• 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

61. SQL Server Denali PowerPivot
• Important note: SharePoint SP1 is required
– 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.

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

63. Enabling PowerPivot & Power
View

64. Issues using PowerPivot & OData
Feeds
Not on your local desktop!

65. Scaling out PowerPivot Installations
• Installation at the App tier
– Requires SQL Server media
• Install SQL PowerPivot for SharePoint
• Requires separate install of SSRS
• Installation at the Web tier
– Does not require SQL Server media
• Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Products is
shipped as a web downloadable add-in
– http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?amp;a
mp;displaylang=en&id=29068

67. Check your Loopback settings!

68. In the end, it’s all about perspective

69. Special announcements
• New book coming for SharePoint and SQL
Server 2012 Business Intelligence:

70. 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
– Power View Demos
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oneclickbi/archive/2011/12/27/more-demos-of-power-view-
available.aspx
• 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!