non-admin users not able to use Powerpivot for Excel 2012 on Windows XP

Written by Gert Christen on 29 April 2012.

Recently we investigated issues where non-admin users could not open Powerpivot 2012 window in Excel 2010 on Windows XP machines.

When trying to open the Powerpivot window they get the following error message:

"Embedded Analysis Services Engine: Could not open embedded Powerpivot data"