“Posted by David M Feldman MCSD MCDBA, MCTS SharePoint on 4/2/2013 at 7:52 PM
I can confirm i’ve seen this on any machine where the user does not have local admin rights. I wasted weeks with support and made no progress. This really needs to be fixed”

So I suspect that this does, again, have something to do with Local Security Policy settings.

That’s interesting. Thank you for sharing the details. Is the error you are getting the same as those reported in the KB (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2703880), i.e. “Embedded Analysis Services Engine: Could not open embedded Powerpivot data”? Or, does it say “We couldn’t load the Data Model. This may be because the Data Model in the workbook is damaged.”?

In my environment (the one outlined in this article), I have admin privilege in Windows 8. I have not tried running it in Administrator mode after the error occurred. I shall give it a try shortly.

Julie

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2703880

I wonder if this is a similar issue.

It’s definitely worth spending some time trying to figure out how BING maps each point as each country has different sets of location hierarchies and, in some cases, using the ‘Other’ type of location could help you get better mapping results. Have you ever tried setting up a column as ‘Other’ before mapping it?

thank you soo much. Very helpful.

will be a frequent visitor as i have subscribed your site.

have a great day!

Best,

Anil

Thank you for visiting and for the great questions! I would love to hear more on your experience with upgrading from SQL Server Express edition to Enterprise edition.

Q1. on Windows
As far as I know, there should not be any technical licensing issues with the scenario you have described above. You should be able to use non-activated Windows until the evaluation period expires for evaluation purposes, and then enter the license key at a later date. I have done this a couple of times myself and have not run into any issues. Please note that I am not a System Administrator, so my experience here does not speak for all technical cases. From the legality stand point, I would recommend reviewing the terms and conditions as set out by Microsoft for the appropriate region.

Q2. SQL Server
I am not a license expert. But the scenario you have described above is quite common. In fact, Microsoft has provided something similar (BI Image) to what you have described for evaluation purposes here http://www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/pd/BIVHD/enus/

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,
Julie

Very informative. Thank you so much.

I plan to try this weekend where I will have a SQL Express Edition to an Enterprise Edition.

Will share my experiences.

Here is an interesting question I had and might help others as well.

Appreciate your inputs.

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Two parts – Windows and SQL Server

1) Windows

Q. Can build a Virtual Appliance (Hyper-V VM) using Evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 (Non-Activated) for Demo purposes and once the eval expires, the prospect / customer can add their licensed key.

Will we run into any licensing issues here?

2) SQL Server

Q. Can we bundle SQL Server 2012 180 Eval / SQL Server Express 2012 with Approved Re-distributable agreement with the above OS as part of a custom Solution for Demo purposes again

The Goal of the Appliance would be to deploy a custom Migration Scenario to the prospects and customers moving from one DB to another.

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Best,

Anil
Solutions Architect, SQL Server and DB2 Solutions
IBM Champion

i will surely share my experience of how it goes

Regards
PSKH

You can enter product key; there is no need to install from scratch, if the Edition Upgrade (downgrade) is successful. Simply run the ISO file of SQL Server 2012, and follow step 1 in this post.

As long as you the existing database instance is not using any SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition specific, the “downgrade” to Standard Edition should work with out any issue. The check is performed during the “downgrade” as mentioned in Step 8.

Good luck and hope this helps.

Julie