Installing PowerPivot for SharePoint

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Installing and Configuring PowerPivot has been painful for me – Partly because I managed to dive in and not read the readme.txt and release notes ;-)

The three things I did wrong and have learned are:

- “Standalone” SharePoint option is not supported as this uses network service accounts. (see below why)

- Domain accounts are a MUST. No local option (yet)

- You need to login with the service account in “Interactive” MODE.

More tips are on https://powerpivotgeek.com/server-installation/reported-problems/#001 thanks to Dave Wickert.