Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Excel Services Open in Excel ODC File

During a recent project I was involved in I had to stop using ODC Connection files embedded in my Excel files when using Excel Services and SharePoint 2010.

The reason was that whenever a user clicked Open in Excel depicted below







The excel client would not open the report but rather open the ODC file itself which is of course is incorrect behavior. This issue was rectified in a hotfix released by Microsoft recently.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596582