Monday, the 22nd of November 2010 we will launch "PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services" CTP2. Here is a preview taken out of the release notes:

PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services CTP2 brings bug fixes as well as new features. This is a list of the changes:



1. Bugfix: PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services and its sample data does not install in a subsite. The bug was fixed in CTP2. Please follow the “Migration from CTP1 to CTP2” chapter in this document or install CTP2 on a machine that never had CTP1 installed on it. Please see the forum question http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel/thread/7664690b-ea78-488f-9703-0ffd458422f0 for a discussion on this CTP1 issue.


2. Bugfix: installBIPivot.ps1 PowerShell script is not digitally signed. The bug was fixed in CTP2 (the script is now digitally signed). Please see the forum question http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlkjpowerpivotforexcel/thread/29aa2101-5210-4a5b-81b8-d9fadef0524d for a discussion on the CTP1 issue.


3. Bugfix: PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services does not work if the data contain null values. In CTP1 there was the workaround to change the data in order to avoid nulls (e.g. put a special value, like -1 in lieu of null). The bug was fixed in CTP2.


4. Bugfix: PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services does not work if numeric values have too large or too small exponent. The issue was that numeric data was considered to be double. The default serialization of doubles will change to the scientific notation if the exponent is above 14 or below -4. The bug was fixed in CTP2 (by considering numeric data as decimal instead).


5. Feature: Support for arbitrary OleDb data. CTP2 supports now generic OleDb providers (e.g. Oracle or DB2) for building applications. This is in addition to the datasources supported in CTP2: PowerPivot (and Analysis Service) via Adomd.NET and SQL Server (via SqlClient). Please see more details in the “Supported Data Sources” chapter of the “PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services.docx” document that is part of this distribution.


6. Feature: Support for links in facet data. CTP2 supports now hyperlinks in facet data. Please see more details in the “Dataset Query Specification” chapter of the “PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services.docx” document that is part of this distribution.


7. Feature: Support for multivalued facet data. CTP2 supports now multivalued facet string data. Please see more details in the “Dataset Query Specification” chapter of the “PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services.docx” document that is part of this distribution.

Stay tuned for when the new bits are live!!
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Hi guys,

This week I have delivered together with Mohammad Ali, from the Power BI dataflows team, the session named "Microsoft Power BI: Enterprise-grade BI with Power BI dataflows" (aka "What's new in Power BI Dataflows"). The session video is available here.

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Hi all,

The enhanced engine of the (Premium) Power BI dataflows, mentioned in the calculator at http://aka.ms/dfparams, uses M query rewrites to target the source of the entities to be the cached entities in the hosted SQL engine.

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Hello friends,

I have not written a post in quite some time (this is the understatement of the year). This post is a calculator for the Power BI Premium Dataflows workload and a brief explanation of those parameters.

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Today we have launched the CTP2 for Reporting Services! Please download it from here and have fun! Make sure you read the release notes!

The release contains MANY bug fixes (many customers already use this in production), performance improvements and features! The most important ones are outlined i

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Monday, the 22nd of November 2010 we will launch "PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services" CTP2. Here is a preview taken out of the release notes:

PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services CTP2 brings bug fixes as well as new features. This is a list of the changes:

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I've produced a new video that dives down into the anatomy of a PivotViewer application for Reporting Services and shows how to build a cool app (original link: http://bit.ly/a0Rho3).

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Please see the video where Donald Farmer demonstrates the capabilities of PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services.

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I've produced a video that demonstrates how to get the PivotViewer Extension for RS installed (including the sample app) and help you get started.

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The CTP1 of PivotViewer for Reporting Services has just shipped! Get your free download from here. As I was saying in an earlier post, it is a concept project. It's not supported, and not a feature.

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Microsoft has recently released a new Silverlight control called PivotViewer. This new control helps us to make better use of the growing amounts of information around us by visualizing thousands of things at once in a way that reveals the relationships which connect them.

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I have recently started to work on Business Intelligence “futures”, or how we sometimes call it, the “BI Labs”. The BI Labs effort has started out of the desire to present our customers with new ideas, in the form of samples/prototypes that gives them a glimpse into the future.

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