I had a bear of a time getting SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP’s Integrated PowerPivot feature installed.  It looks like several other people in the Twitter/Blogosphere are running into the same issue, but for potentially different reasons.

For me, ProClarity Analytics Server (PAS) 6.3 was the culprit: If it was already installed on my machine, I could NOT get Integrated PowerPivot installed. As a result, I was forced to install Gemini first, then PAS. In order for everything to play nicely, I then needed to manually move the PAS install from port 80 into a new website which listened on a different port. How did I do it? Here’s how:

WARNING: Before you install PAS, I suggest you read the couple of sentences & 3 bullets towards the end of this entry – you are about to inadvertently (but temporarily)  BREAK MOSS by changing all of MOSS’s x64 app pools to x86/x64. I suggest you record a list of all your applications pools as they exist right now and note whether they Enable 32-bit Applications or not so you can make sure they have the correct values when you’re all done.

• I set the identity of IIS’s DefaultAppPool to my domain admin account to make life simple. You might not want to.
• Install PAS as you normally would, including all the extra goodies that come with PAS like ProClarity Web Pro, etc.
• Install PAS 6.3 Service Pack 3 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E6B784A8-E7C2-4E27-9D98-41E2F2FD7467&displaylang=en
• Install WebDAV. Here’s a link which gets more specific (see section “Installing and configuring WebDAV”): http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM103875331033
• Open IIS Manager via Start  | Run | inetmgr
• Create a new website named ProClarity. Bind it to port 81. Along with it, you’ll be creating a new AppPool named ProClarity, as well.
• Modify the AppPool named “ProClarity“, set it’s Framework Version to v2.0.50727, Pipeline Mode = Integrated. Set the Identity of this pool to your domain admin account or something more secure.
• Copy the PAS and PASUploads applications plus the ChartFXInt62 VDIR currently under Default Web Site to the ProClarity website
  • Under Default Web Site, right-click the PAS application, choose Manage Application, then Advanced Settings. Copy the Physical Path string to your clipboard
  • Right-click the ProClarity web site, choose Add Application, and create a new application with the same name/alias (PAS). Paste in the Physical Path string.
  • Repeat for PASUploads
  • Repeat for the ChartFXInt62 Virtual Directory, but create a VDIR under the ProClarity web site instead of an application
• Browse to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config and back up ApplicationHost.config somewhere safe
• Open ApplicationHost.config and scroll all the way to the bottom of the file until you hit the closing </configuration> element.
• Paste the following stuff right before the closing </confiiguration> tag. I’m assuming you named your website ProClarity, btw:

     <location path=”ProClarity”>
             <system.webServer>
                <isapiFilters>
                     <clear />
                     <filter name=”PHttpFilter” path=”C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ProClarity\Server\PHTTPFilter.dll” enabled=”true” />
                 </isapiFilters>
             </system.webServer>
         </location>
         <location path=”ProClarity/PAS”>
                  <system.webServer>
                 <directoryBrowse enabled=”false” showFlags=”Date, Time, Size, Extension” />
                 <handlers accessPolicy=”Read, Script” />
                 <security>
                     <authentication>
                         <windowsAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                         <anonymousAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <digestAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <basicAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                     </authentication>
                 </security>
                 <defaultDocument enabled=”true”>
                     <files>
                         <clear />
                         <add value=”ProClarity.asp” />
                     </files>
                 </defaultDocument>
                 <asp enableParentPaths=”false” bufferingOn=”true”>
                     <session allowSessionState=”true” />
                     <limits scriptTimeout=”00:03:00″ />
                 </asp>
             </system.webServer>
         </location>
         <location path=”ProClarity/PASUploads”>
             <system.webServer>
                 <directoryBrowse enabled=”false” showFlags=”Date, Time, Size, Extension” />
                 <handlers accessPolicy=”Read, Write, Script” />
                 <security>
                     <authentication>
                         <windowsAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                         <anonymousAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <digestAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <basicAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                      </authentication>
                 </security>
                 <defaultDocument enabled=”false”>
                     <files>
                         <clear />
                         <add value=”ProClarity.asp” />
                     </files>
                 </defaultDocument>
                 <asp bufferingOn=”true”>
                     <session allowSessionState=”true” />
                     <limits scriptTimeout=”00:03:00″ />
                 </asp>
             </system.webServer>
         </location>
         <location path=”ProClarity/ChartFXInt62″>
             <system.webServer>
                 <directoryBrowse enabled=”false” showFlags=”Date, Time, Size, Extension” />
                 <handlers accessPolicy=”Read, Script” />
                 <security>
                     <authentication>
                         <windowsAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                         <anonymousAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <digestAuthentication enabled=”false” />
                         <basicAuthentication enabled=”true” />
                     </authentication>
                 </security>
                 <defaultDocument enabled=”true” />
                 <asp>
                     <limits scriptTimeout=”00:03:00″ />
                 </asp>
             </system.webServer>
         </location>

        What is this? It’s the basic configration of your Default Web Site with PAS installed (only PAS, nothing else) . I just snipped it out of my config file, and renamed “Default Web Site” to “ProClarity” in the appropriate places).

• Save, and do an IISReset
• Browse to http://machinename:81/PAS, and ProClarity should be happy.
• Assuming all is well, remove the PAS, PASUploads and ChartFXInt62 applications/VDIRS from under Default Web Site.
• Next, select the Default Web Site and click ISAPI Filters in the Features View pane.
• Delete PhttpFilter, which is most likely the only thing there.

If you’re trying to install the Integrated PowerPivot engine for SharePoint, then I know you’re on a 64-bit machine, which leaves you with another problem. Since you just put PAS (32-bit) on your box, IIS has switched all of your Application Pools  around so that they allow 32-bit apps. Your x64 MOSS install won’t like this at all. It is broken. SO, fix it:

• In Internet Information Manager, click Application Pools. You’ll see a bunch of stuff from MOSS including multiple app pools with a GUID for a name, Classic .NET AppPool, DefaultAppPoolk, Sharepoint – 80, SharePoint Central Administration v4, SharePoint Web Services Root.
• Right-click each one, choose Advanced Features, and then set the Enable 32-bit Applications property back to False. (You must leave the ProClarity app pool set to True).
• IISRESET

 That’s it, you should be good. BTW, if you chose not to set the identity of the ProClarity and/or DefaultAppPool to a set of domain admin \ admin credentials, you still might have a bit of work to do to make sure that ProClarity can read everything it needs to. Read this link for more information http://blogs.technet.com/proclarity/attachment/3171346.ashx. You’ll be interested in steps 5 and 6 of section 1.

Yesterday, the fine folks at Microsoft added an evaluation version of PAS 6.3 to the already available ProClarity Desktop 6.3 eval. You can download it here.

A few notes about this release:

·         ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 – Evaluation contains the RTM version of the product; it does not include any of the ProClarity 6.3 hotfixes or cumulative updates.

·         You cannot upgrade this evaluation version with any PAS hotfixes or cumulative updates.

·         Support for this product (via the ProClarity TechNet forum only – http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1870&SiteID=17.) will only be available if no PAS updates have been applied.

·         This product contains only the server components of ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3—that is, the PAS Administration Tool and the thin client, ProClarity Web Standard. It does not include ProClarity Dashboard Server 6.3 or the following ProClarity 6.3 add-ins: ProClarity Web Professional, ProClarity KPI Designer, or ProClarity Selector.

·         To publish briefing books to PAS, you  are expected to use the evaluation version of ProClarity Desktop Professional 6.3.