PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint

Existing SharePoint 2010 Installation

Working with an existing installation is by far the simplest from a solution developer point of view. Coaxing, coercing, or otherwise convincing your SharePoint Administrator to execute the steps described in the following subsections will enable the PowerPivot for SharePoint features and allow publishing of PowerPivot solutions to an existing SharePoint server.

Note The steps to install PowerPivot into an existing SharePoint installation are already outlined in great detail in Microsoft's MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210616(SQL.105).aspx. I have listed the high-level tasks here ...