Gotta love cross team interaction sometimes. In trying to get PowerPivot and PowerView to work on SP2013, I ran into many many issues. One of which has no items on the internet when you search for it! So here's my steps to resolve getting this whole thing to work right.
- The first step is to install the PowerPivot Add-In. The gem of an installer simply copies a bunch of files to the program files directory. The real work in the configuration tool
- Run the PowerPivot Configuraton Tool – this copies all the wonderful items to the SharePoint Root. Some of this is done via solutions, other by direct file copy. Some important files include:
- BINGallerySnapshot.exe
- LayoutsPowerPivot directory (specifically the ASRGLoader.htm file)
Once this is done, theoretically you should be good to go, but alas…shit happens.
The biggest issue is the snapshots of the files. I have seen many of these errors before, but this time things were a bit different.
When it comes to the actual GallerySnapshot.exe tool, it is a very interesting beast, some details are found here:
And for all other issues, you have this great post:
Which one part that I had not seen before was the Group Policy being applied for the Trusted sites. Because I had set this up in my image, the code could not set its own policy and would error. This post was helpful to find that issue (which was to remove the policy):
For my particular situation, I had what this poor soul had:
This error is "NullReferenceException in Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SPAddin.ReportGallery.SnapshotHandler.RegisterGlobalExtensionHandlers()" Ugly. So of course, I went in and found the assembly just as he did and sure enough, the section is missing in my web.config file of my BI Center site. What does it need to look like? Here ya go (answer in bold):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
standalone="yes"?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="SharePoint">
<section name="SafeControls"
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeControlsConfigurationHandler,
Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<section name="RuntimeFilter"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="WebPartLimits"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="WebPartCache"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System, Version=4.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="WebPartWorkItem"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="WebPartControls"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="SafeMode"
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SafeModeConfigurationHandler,
Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<section name="MergedActions"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section
name="PeoplePickerWildcards"
type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System,
Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
<section name="WorkflowServices"
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.ServiceConfigurationSection,
Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
<section name="BlobCache"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
/>
<section name="OutputCacheProfiles"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
/>
<section name="ObjectCache"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
/>
<section name="MediaAssets"
type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler, System,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"
/>
<section
name="ApplicationAuthentication"
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.ApplicationAuthenticationConfigurationSection,
Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"
/>
<section
name="CustomCaptureSection"
type="Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SPAddin.ReportGallery.CustomCaptureSection"/>
</sectionGroup>
<sectionGroup
name="System.Workflow.ComponentModel.WorkflowCompiler"
type="System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.WorkflowCompilerConfigurationSectionGroup,
System.Workflow.ComponentModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">
<section name="authorizedTypes"
type="System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.AuthorizedTypesSectionHandler,
System.Workflow.ComponentModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
<section name="authorizedRuleTypes"
type="System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Compiler.AuthorizedTypesSectionHandler,
System.Workflow.ComponentModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</sectionGroup>
<sectionGroup
name="microsoft.sharepoint.client">
<section name="serverRuntime"
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientServiceServerRuntimeSection,
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerRuntime, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
</sectionGroup>
<sectionGroup name="ReportingServices">
<section name="DataExtensions"
type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler" />
</sectionGroup>
<sectionGroup name="Bpm">
<section name="FCODaoProviders"
type="System.Configuration.DictionarySectionHandler" />
</sectionGroup>
<sectionGroup name="reportserver">
<section name="redirection" type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.SharePoint.Configuration.RSRedirectConfigSection,
RSSharePointSoapProxy, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" />
</sectionGroup>
<section name="microsoft.identityModel"
type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.MicrosoftIdentityModelSection,
Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
</configSections>
<microsoft.sharepoint.client>
<serverRuntime>
<hostTypes>
<add
type="Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SPClientServiceHost,
Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
</hostTypes>
</serverRuntime>
</microsoft.sharepoint.client>
<SharePoint>
<CustomCaptureSection createProcessMethodForSnapShot="0"
snapshotCaptureTimeoutSecods="300" maxSnapshotsCount="19"
>
<Handlers>
</Handlers>
</CustomCaptureSection>
…
</configuration>
After adding these entries…your PowerPivot and PowerView snapshots will work.
Enjoy,
Chris