Is it required to have SharePoint server for working with Power View in SSRS? I have SQL Server with MSBI 2012. My client is inclined towards using Power view. Do I need need to install SharePoint (and pay for it) to use Power view in SSRS with SQL Server 2012 ?
Short answer is yes. From Microsoft:
Power View is now a feature of Microsoft Excel 2013, and is part of
the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services add-in for Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 Enterprise Editions.
And:
Power View is a browser-based Silverlight application launched from
SharePoint Server 2010
More details:
Power View.
System Requirements for Power View.
Related
I have been using Power BI features in Excel 2013 and was wondering what do I need to do to get them working in SharePoint 2013.
It depends what you mean by the "Power BI" features. Power BI is an Office 365-based product which provides what is, in essence, a cloud-based SharePoint-esque environment for all your self-service BI functionality.
A lot of this functionality (but not all of it) is also available in SharePoint 2013 (and part of it in 2010).
SharePoint 2013 Enterprise allows you to make use of the following features:
Sharing of Power Pivot models
Power Pivot scheduled data refresh
SSAS Tabular and multi-dimensional (SQL 2012 SP1 & SQL 2014 only) data sources for Power View
Power View report creation
"Vanilla" SSRS reports
To manage/share your Power Pivot models and create Power View reports, you need to be able to add a Power Pivot Gallery to your SharePoint site. This has several prerequisites, including an instance of SQL Server Analysis Services (2012/2014 BI or Enterprise Edition) in Power Pivot mode, and Reporting Services in SharePoint mode.
To do this, you need to follow the steps outlined in these two articles:
Power Pivot installation
Reporting Services for SharePoint installation
SharePoint 2013 does not support Q&A (the natural language query component of Power BI).
We have a SharePoint 2010 farm and a SharePoint 2013 farm.
In one of the List on the SharePoint 2013 farm, when ever a record is created,
we need to copy it to a list on SharePoint 2010 farm.
Can this be done using the 2013 CSOM? Will the 2013 CSOM be able to connect to 2010 List and manipulate it (CRUD operations)
OR
Should I consider creating a Custom Service Application and expose the data stored in 2013 farm for the 2010 farm to consume it?
Thanks in advance
I'm not sure if client object model from 2013 dll will work on SP2010, but you should definitely be able to save an item using listdata.svc REST calls, and then you shouldn't need any custom service application.
We've done from 2007-->2010 (console app) using scom for 2010. The same code run smoothly when we upgraded 2010->2013. So, I guess you won't have any problems.
We're currently looking into SharePoint 2010 and we're decided what we need as a business.
We're at a point where we are looking to upgrade our MS SQL Server from 2008 to SQL 2012 Enterprise Edition but mainly on the back of SharePoint features.
Can somebody tell me if SharePoint Enterprise Edition can run Performance Point & PowerPivot off MS SQL Server 2008 or would it require SQL 2012 Enterprise?
Thanks
From what I've found you need:
SharePoint Enterprise in order to use PowerPivot and PerformancePoint (dashboard services) with SQL Server 2008 R2 for PowerPivot and PerformancePoint to run.
In this particular case there was no need for us to upgrade.
I'm looking at the ssrs deployment guide on the Azure site and it says to specify a 2008 r2 target? is ssrs on Azure not 2012? can I deploy 2012 SSRS reports? Also it suggest I download report builder 3.0, do i need that if I plan to install 2012 BI ? Is there even a 2012 BI install for Visual Studio 2012? Ideally I'd like to build and deploy SSRS 2012 reports.
Also, Can SSRS2012 consume SharePoint Online List Sources? Any plans for SP Integrated SSRS in o365/SharePoint 2013 Online?
And finally, we are looking for way to move from SP 2007 On prem, but we have 500 SSRS 2005 reports in SharePoint we need to somehow deliver through SharePoint.. any good shorterm option while MS catches up with this critical integration need? Right now we have SharePoint clients that don't want to go to the Cloud without their SSRS Reports.
thanks.
Regarding SQL 2012 compatibility I can't find anything that explicitly confirms 2012 compatibility, but based on the "Guidelines and Limitations" info Azure SQL Reporting is compatible with SQL Server Data Tools, which are the new version of SQL tools released with SQL Server 2012. That page also contains a link to download Report Builder, which links to the 2012 version.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/gg430132.aspx#Tools
Note that Azure SQL Reporting only supports Native Mode report server (not Sharepoint Integrated) and also only supports Windows Azure SQL databases as a data source.
I am looking at Access 2013 and when trying to create a linked table to a Sharepoint list, I keep receiving an error:
Access Services
Access can't connect to the external data source because the LocalDB component or the SQL Native Client component are not installed.
That's all there is to the error.
I am an admin with "Full Control" rights to Sharepoint. I have tried this on Sharepoint 2007 and 2013.
I'd like for it to work as it does here:
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-access/archive/2012/08/30/link-to-sharepoint-lists-in-access.aspx
To anyone with same problem above, make sure the following components are installed on the Sharepoint Server:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Local DB (SQLLocalDB.msi)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (Dacframework.msi)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client (sqlncli.msi)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL ScriptDom (SQLDOM.MSI)
Microsoft System CLR Types for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SQLSysClrTypes.msi)
You must restart the SharePoint Server after following the install steps from the previous post.