Banding in gradients and refresh failing

I have the stock GeForce4MX graphics card that came with this computer, and I think it might be going out. Not sure, but I bought a new 22" Chimei flatscreen and it has the same millions of colors and MHz as an Apple monitor I looked at. I calibrated the new screen but the contrast isn't quite right. Also, I'm getting banding in the gradient areas which is bad considering I'm a graphic designer. Plus I used to be able to play Pogo.com's Payday Freecell, but even before I got the flat screen, the refresh was dragging big time. I'd have to minimize the window to get it to clean up.
Anyone know if this sounds like the graphics card is failing? Any suggestions? Do I need to take the monitor back?

Looking at your PDF it's difficult to tell exactly what's happening. I've had banding problems, however, in similar situations passing Illustrator files through Photoshop to be converted to high-resolution JPEGs for a very specific printer. Essentially, the file looks fine in Illustrator and fine in Photoshop until one significantly raises the white levels. The banding which then appears is very similar to the banding which appears upon printing. Can you see the errors in your file before they're printed? Or, only after printing?
Here's a couple thoughts... save Illustrator file as hi-res PDF. Use CS4 High-Quality Print presets. Open in Photoshop, rasterize at 300dpi in PS's opening dialog box. Flatten and save as TIFF, etc. for printing. May solve the problem.
Another setting to experiment with which may do nothing (and may cause the sky to fall) is to check your presets for Color Settings. Try setting Conversion Options > Intent > to Perceptual. This may make some users howl as Relative Colorimetric is the default setting for many users. However, it's been said to me that Perceptual is the correct setting to avoid banding in images with large gradients.
For more information on the differences between the two, check out: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-space-conversion.htm
Regarding the lines around placed images, I haven't dealt with that one. You may want to open the images in Photoshop and make sure there isn't some colored trim left over from the cropping process. Provided that isn't the case, try re-placing them before saving to PDF and moving to Photoshop.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!

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Windows 8.1 Freezing and Refresh Failed - winload.efi error 0xc0000001

Hey, everybody. I'm new to these forums so I'm sorry if I do anything wrong, and sorry for the long post.
I own a three-month-old Toshiba Satellite S50D-A that came with Windows 8 installed and ran perfectly. I was eventually asked to upgrade to Windows 8.1, and assuming it was a minor update, I immediately accepted.
Unfortunately, ever since "upgrading" to Windows 8.1, my computer has suffered some severe performance issues. Browsing the internet has become slower, games run poorly, and worst of all, my computer will randomly freeze constantly. I am still
able to move the mouse around but clicking does nothing or sometimes has a very delayed response. The computer usually resumes after a few minutes, but sometimes it suddenly resets on its own. This has become increasingly frustrating, especially when I am
in class (I am a university student) and trying to take notes when the computer freezes and sometimes resets, losing my notes.
Researching on the internet has revealed that this is not an uncommon problem with Windows 8.1, but the solutions presented online have failed to solve my problems. I've upgraded every driver on my computer which I thought was the issue but the problem has
persisted.
A couple of days ago, I left my computer for a few minutes and returned to find it had shut down and refused to turn back on. I was eventually able to restart the computer after contacting Toshiba and learning there was a reset hole I could poke a pin into,
but that episode convinced me to give up on fixing the issue and to simply return my computer to factory defaults.
If anybody has any solutions to the freeezing issue and other problems with Windows 8.1, that would be preferable, but otherwise, this brings me to my new problem. I stumbled upon Windows Refresh, the ability to return to default system settings without
losing my files. This sounded perfect as I am willing to reinstall all of my programs if it means having a properly functioning computer again. However, upon attempting the Refresh, I was presented with a blue screen that read:
RECOVERY
The Application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.
File: \windows\system32\winload.efi
Error code: 0x0000001
It proceeds to tell me that I can use recovery tools to repair my computer, which brings me to my next trouble... I did not create recovery media when I still had Windows 8. I plan to go out and buy a 16gb usb stick tomorrow and create one but I'm not sure
if the Windows 8.1 recovery media will work or not.
Long story short, my computer has suffered constant freezing since updating to Windows 8.1, and my attempts to use the Refresh feature have failed due to error code 0x0000001. If anybody has a solution to any of these problems, your help would be extremely
appreciated. As a full-time student, these technology troubles have become extremely infuriating.
Thank you!

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Banding.. yes banding in gradients

First of all Im not here to waste your time. I have read pretty much every thread on here about banding in gradients and there is no solution for my problem.
Details:
Illustrator CS
I experience awful banding in almost every gradient I do. It doesn't matter what the colors are. It happens more so in darks.
I cannot rasterize my work, so I can't do the gradients in PS, I can't add noise, etc. I am currently working on something that will later be resized for an art show. I work 100% in vector and unfortunetly, it has to stay that way.
Here is an example of what I'm working with. The darks.. the banding is horrid.
Ive tried re-setting my screen profile, but Ive had people on other computers tell me that they can see the banding.
I've tried RGB vs CMKY..
I mean, I really am at an end. Most of my work is viewed digitally, but I do need it to look good in print.
I wouldn't waste your time, I have spent the last week all over the internet trying to find a solution. I would think that these simple gradients would be possible in such a high end program I paid hundreds for, but really?!
Im near tears because I mean, this is my art. I just hate that it looks so terrible.
I thank ANYONE for their help, this is becoming such an issue for me.

any updates on this?
I noticed the gorgeous tones on the splash screens too, and would like to reproduce that softness...
I get what JET is saying, but I get the banding too on even just 2 similiar tones less than 12 inches apart. But from what Jet is saying I assume he means that the screen visual is not the same as the printing outcome and does not indicate the printing outcome.
a cheap or poor screen may show banding, but printed to a 5 thousand dollar printer may come out smooth when the vector is rasterized at 300 DPI on an A4 page.
I have banding on a photoshop image here actually, but I have seen lots of artwork with smooth creamy gradients or tonal blends painted on figures in character artwork, pinups and illustrations, or how to recreate the look of the opening splash screens of the software, wish I knew how to do that, i`m using a wacom bamboo with low opacity and brush pressure determines opacity in photoshop.
here is a black to transparent gradient layed over a flat mid gray layer. 10cm long. just showing you that the screen banding is not specific to only illustrator. using PS CS5 here.
same issue goes for brushes, here I used the largest softest default brush to fill this shape, still creates streaking.

Can rendering from Motion reduce banding on gradients in graphics?

I have created a 50-minute animated movie, the visuals all rendered from Flash Professional 8 in the Animation codec. They look stunning. Clean & beautiful with no banding or artifacts of any kind.
I edited the movie in FCP 4 using the DV sequence preset and output as DV NTSC. The finished product is mostly gorgeous but has some colour halos and noticeable banding in the gradients I would like to eliminate.
Question is: If I bought Motion (FCStudio), could I import the whole project into Motion and output it with float rendering would that eliminate the halos and banding? The source files are currently animation codec but could all be re-rendered as uncompressed 10 bit if necessary.
Or is there some other way to deal with banding in gradients and colour halos?
G5 dual 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I'm sure impressed with all the responses. Thank you.
As my original question had to do with buying Motion for the float rendering, I didn't give you enough detail to solve my problem in Flash & FCP4.
At least half of the gradients are in the foreground and the 3d renders, so compositing over a background won't help. I have tried all the high rez codecs and had the same problem. Sorry about wasting your time.
I have found an acceptable solution that might be worth noting.
The problem was in rendering it as a self-contained movie from FCP4. I had overlooked the CUSTOM setting under Export as QuickTIme which allowed me to ouput a REFERENCE MOVIE in ANIMATION codec ( I had previously tried outputting a reference movie in uncompressed 8&10bit but that made the actual real life DV footage in the movie terribly jittery).
The reference animation codec movie burned to DVD eliminated a lot of the banding and reduced the rest to a level that looks like a "style". The output is otherwise stunning in its clarity and colour, and for this project I am deeming that acceptable. I will buy FCP Studio and learn Motion and perhaps output an even cleaner master in future but not for this deadline.
Thank you all again for taking the time to reply.
G5 dual 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

How do I stop banding in my gradients and vignetting?

How do I stop banding in my gradients and vignetting?

And finally, banding doesn't have to be in the file data, but can be in the monitor and/or calibration curves in the video card (8 bit video pipeline).

External Data Refresh failed - Unable to refresh list data in Excel Web Access WebPart

Hi,
I have created a PivotChart in Excel workbook that fetches data from a SharePoint list using "OData Data Feed". When refreshing the connection in Excel 2013, the updated data is displayed in PivotChart. But when i upload the same to a SharePoint
Library and refresh it through Excel Web Access WebPart, it throws an error.
After configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint, i am getting a "We cannot locate a server to load the Data Model" error.
Note -
SQL Analysis Service(PowerPivot) is in running state.
PowerPivot Server has been under Data Model in Excel Service setting.
The library location is added in trusted zone.
Using secure store didn't fix the issue.
Stack Exception
SSPM: Initialization failed on server : Microsoft.AnalysisServices.ConnectionException: A connection cannot be made. Ensure that the server is running. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively
refused it 127.0.0.1:2383
at System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient..ctor(String hostname, Int32 port)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XmlaClient.GetTcpClient(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XmlaClient.GetTcpClient(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XmlaClient.OpenTcpConnection(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XmlaClient.OpenConnection(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo, Boolean& isSessionTokenNeeded)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.XmlaClient.Connect(ConnectionInfo connectionInfo, Boolean beginSession)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server.Connect(String connectionString, String sessionId, ObjectExpansion expansionType)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Server.Connect(Nullable`1 ctx, Boolean schedulePingTaskOnFailure)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Server.Initialize(Guid serviceId, CancellationToken ctx)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Tasks.InitializationTask.Run(CancellationToken ctx)
Check Server Version (ServerName\POWERPIVOT): Fail (Expected:
=11.0.2800.0, Actual: 11.0.2100.60).
--> Check Deployment Mode (ServerName\POWERPIVOT): Pass.
Monitorable Check Server Configuration (ServerName\POWERPIVOT): Fail (Uninitialized, ConfigurationError, WrongVersion).
SSPM: Initialization failed on server ServerName\POWERPIVOT: Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.ServerConfigurationException: Server ServerName\POWERPIVOT failed configuration checks (Status = Uninitialized, ConfigurationError, WrongVersion).
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Server.AssertServerConfiguration(Server amoServer, CancellationToken ctx) at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Server.Initialize(Guid serviceId, CancellationToken ctx) at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Streaming.OnPremise.Tasks.InitializationTask.Run(CancellationToken
ctx)
Thanks,
Thomas Mathew

Hi,
For your issue, the possible reason is that the SharePoint environment does not have a PowerPivot for SharePoint server, or the SQL Server Analysis Services (PowerPivot) service is stopped.
Install PowerPivot for SharePoint or move the PowerPivot workbook to a SharePoint environment that has PowerPivot for SharePoint installed.
If the software is installed, verify that the SQL Server Analysis Services (PowerPivot) instance is running. Check Manage services on server in Central Administration. Also check the Services console application in Administrative Tools.
Refer to the following link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487858.aspx
Besides, here is a similar post, you can use as a reference:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2e728b3e-6d3d-497b-b0ce-57f2699710e5/access-was-denied-by-the-external-data-source-the-following-connections-failed-to?forum=sharepointadminprevious
Best Regards,
Lisa Chen
Lisa Chen
TechNet Community Support

Powerpivot refresh failing on Sharepoint ONLY - Works in Excel

Hi all,
I'm experiencing a very frustrating issue. I have a powerpivot workbook that has refreshes fine in the Excel application, however when I put the workbook in the Powerpivot Gallery on Sharepoint, the refresh fails with an error 'Call To Excel Services Returned
an Error'.
Weirdly, the time it takes the connection being refreshed to fail is 7 minutes 30 seconds at all times (450 seconds)
I did some digging and started looking at the ULS logs, and found nothing. I checked the ServerTimeout property in the PowerPivot Analysis Services server via SSMS and saw that it was set to 3600.
So, I ran a SQL Profiler during the refresh, and found the following;
EventClass - Query Begin
EventSubClass - 0 - MDXQuery
TextData - REFRESH CUBE [Model]
Request Properties -
<PropertyList xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><Catalog>Actuarials_e9696b57ffba475fb5b0a141c8277168_ab35031e203d40e098de409b1b255794_SSPM</Catalog><Timeout>410</Timeout><Content>SchemaData</Content><Format>Tabular</Format><DbpropMsmdFlattened2>false</DbpropMsmdFlattened2><Dialect>MDX</Dialect><MdxMissingMemberMode>Error</MdxMissingMemberMode><DbpropMsmdOptimizeResponse>7</DbpropMsmdOptimizeResponse><DbpropMsmdActivityID>0F1244C2-C215-4E0C-A786-7A8DA962598A</DbpropMsmdActivityID><DbpropMsmdRequestID>7579A80F-D1E0-4656-9A02-3BB4034A29F4</DbpropMsmdRequestID><LocaleIdentifier>1033</LocaleIdentifier><DbpropMsmdMDXCompatibility>1</DbpropMsmdMDXCompatibility><DbpropMsmdSubqueries>2</DbpropMsmdSubqueries></PropertyList>
As you can see, the Timeout property is set to 410! I have no idea where this number came from and it's very likely that that is what's causing the failure.
The fact that it works in Excel all the time shows that this is a Sharepoint issue. I'd appreciate any help on this whatsoever!
Thanks!

Hi Murtz,
Thank you for your question.
I am trying to involve someone more familiar with this topic for a further look at this issue. Sometime delay might be expected from the job transferring. Your patience is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

External Data Refresh Failed. We cannot locate a server to load the workbook Data Model. ThisWorkBookDataModel

Hi All,
I have been trying to fix this for days now. I have tried solutions in many articles but to no avail. So while the error message is something you may have seen may times, I just can't find a solution in my case.
This is the error:
And in text just in case the image isn't viewable:
"External Data Refresh Failed. We cannot locate a server to load the workbook Data Model. We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in this workbook. The following connections failed to refresh: ThisWorkBookDataModel."
What is worse is I have checked the ULS (SharePoint Trace Logs), the Event Viewer Logs and the OWA Logs and I cannot find a specific error that would help pin point the problem.
Excel Workbook
So what am I doing? I have an Excel 2013 workbook and I create an "SQL Server" connection to the AdventureWorksDW database, add a pivot table and a pivot chart, test in in Excel and all works fine.
I save the Excel workbook to SharePoint 2013 and then select "Data" then "Refresh All Connections" and then I get the error in the picture above.
Even more puzzling is I have another Excel workbook that also has pivot tables and pivot charts in the AdventureWorksDW2012Multidimensional cube database in "SQL Analysis Services" and this works fine. Hmmm.
My Environment
My environment is Windows 2008 R2 Server, SharePoint 2013 with the April Service Pack1 and a separate server with OWA2013 SP1. It has an SQL Server 2008 R2 database which has been upgraded to SQL Server 2012.
Data Model Settings
In Excel Services this is set to my server name which is "server-name". As I do not have instances all I can enter is the server name. As this works everywhere else including the workbook outside of SharePoint I do not think this is the problem.
But I could be wrong.
Unattended Account
I have set this up for the PowerPivot Services App and Excel Services App.
ODC Connections in Excel
I have tried all 3 authentication modes, Windows, Secure Store ID and "None" which is the unattended account. I have not tried the other connection types, should I?
Not in WOPI
I am not in WOPI mode.
AD Accounts
I have added permissions in the SharePoint Services and SQL Server, and as they work in Excel outside of SharePoint, I do not think it is a permissions issue. I could be wrong of course, but the problem is in one of SharePoint, OWA, AD,
SQL Server, Excel, and Windows Server.
Isolate the Error
Below is a list of errors I think are relevant but they do not tell me much. The SharePoint logs are not really giving me an error that tells me what to do and where to do it, or even why it cannot refresh, (perhaps not noticeable by the untrained eye).
Problem with SQL Server Not Analysis Services
So my cube database in analysis services works fine in SharePoint/OWA but not the databases in sql server. This is my best clue but I have no idea what it means. Why would it work with an Analysis Services connection but not an "SQL Server" connection?
It Works Outside of SharePoint
If I run the excel worksheet outside of SharePoint all works fine. When inside OWA this is where the refresh error occurs.
Errors from Event Viewer on SharePoint Server using ULS Viewer
"Failed to create an external connection or execute a query. Provider message: There are no servers available or actively being initialized., ConnectionName: , Workbook:"
"Refresh failed for 'ThisWorkbookDataModel' in the workbook 'http://server...'. [Session: 1.V22.26itT0lx8piNFeqtuGVhN214.5.en-US5.en-US36.98c0e158-9113-46e9-850e-edda81d9ed1c1.A1.N User: 0#.w|ad\testuser1]"
And an error in the ULS under the "Data Model" category:
"--> Check Deployment Mode (server-name): Fail (Expected: SharePoint, Actual: Multidimensional)."
This last error, as it turned out, defined the problem concisely, although I was yet to work out what it meant in some detail.

I finally solved this myself (or should I say with the help of several key articles).
The refresh did not work because the database was not in "SharePoint Mode". Yes, SQL Server has modes, 3 of them in fact.
If you installed SharePoint to the default SQL instance which would be called <servername> then you cannot use this default instance for Excel 2013 workbooks in OWA 2013 because the refresh only works if the database is in SharePoint mode.
So what are these 3 modes? The Deployment Mode property in the msmdsrv.ini file has them as:
0 = Multidimensional mode (the default whenever you install SQL Server normally)
1 = PowerPivot for SharePoint mode
2 = Tabular mode mode
How do you know what mode you are in? That's easy, open SQL Studio Manager and connect to all your SQL database engine instances (ignore Analysis Services or SSRS as they are not database engines). If you only have the default instance then that is almost
definately in Multidimensional mode which is the default and what SharePoint installs its databases to.
You must have an instance called <servername>\POWERPIVOT. This instance is the "sharepoint mode" needed, and the default instance name when you install an SQL instance in this mode.
If you don't see <servername>\POWERPIVOT in SQL server then you are not in "sharepoint mode". It is more accurate to say, you do not have an instance that is in sharepoint mode. This is because you cannot simply switch modes on an SQL server.
You have to install a new instance in the required mode, thats the only way.
That's easy enough. Load up the SQL Server setup CD and run setup. Install a brand new instance and select "SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint" when you get there in the wizard.
Now you will have the default instance that stores all the SharePoint databases and that is in mode 0, and a new instance called <servername>\POWERPIVOT that is in mode 1. The "<servername>\POWERPIVOT" instance connection is what you
will use for Excel 2013 when rendering in OWA 2013.
You also need to ensure OWA 2013 is not in WOPI mode for Excel worksheets. See the last link below for more information about WOPI.
Next you should go to the Excel Service App in CA and click Data Model Settings and add the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance.
Then you have to either turn off the firewall on the SQL server machine, or create an inbound rule on the Windows firewall to open the TCP port for the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance:
1. Start Task Manager and then click Services to get the PID of the MSOLAP$InstanceName.
2. Run netstat –ao –p TCP from the command line to view the TCP port information for that PID.
Finally, you can now create Excel 2013 workbooks that run in OWA without refresh errors, as long as you are connecting to the <servername>\POWERPIVOT instance. Hooray.
REFERENCES
Look for the string "There are no servers available or actively being initialized" in this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/analysisservices/archive/2012/08/02/verifying-the-excel-services-configuration-for-powerpivot-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx
Determine the server mode:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/gg471594(v=sql.110).aspx
Install the SharePoint PowerPivot instance (aka SharePoint mode)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/eec38696-5e26-46fa-bc83-aa776f470ce8(v=sql.110)
Open the port for the new SQL instance:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174937(v=sql.110).aspx
Turn Off WOPI for Excel OWA
http://blogs.technet.com/b/excel_services__powerpivot_for_sharepoint_support_blog/archive/2013/01/31/powerpivot-for-sharepoint-browser-refresh-fails-data-refresh-not-supported-in-office-web-apps.aspx

Cube refresh fails with an error below

Hi,
We are experiencing this problem below during planning application database refresh. We have been refreshing the database everyday, but all of a sudden the below error is appearing in log. The error is something like below:
Cube refresh failed with error: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling return; nested exception is:
java.io.EOFException
When the database refresh is done from workspace manually, the database refresh is happening successfully. But when triggered from unix script, its throwing the above error.
Is it related to some provisioning related issue for which user has been removed from MSAD?? Please help me out on this.
Thanks,
mani
Edited by: sdid on Jul 29, 2012 11:16 PM

I work with 'sdid' and here is a better explaination of what exactly is going on -
As part of our nightly schedule we have a unix shell script that executes refresh of essbase cubes from planning using the 'CubeRefresh.sh' shell script.
Here is how our shell looks like -
/opt/hyperion/Planning/bin/CubeRefresh.sh /A:<cube name> /U:<user id> /P:<password> /R /D /FS
Here is what 'CubeRefresh.sh' looks like -
PLN_JAR_PATH=/opt/hyperion/Planning/bin
export PLN_JAR_PATH
. "${PLN_JAR_PATH}/setHPenv.sh"
"${HS_JAVA_HOME}/bin/java" -classpath ${CLASSPATH} com.hyperion.planning.HspCubeRefreshCmd $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7
And here is what 'setHPenv.sh' looks like -
HS_JAVA_HOME=/opt/hyperion/common/JRE/Sun/1.5.0
export HS_JAVA_HOME
HYPERION_HOME=/opt/hyperion
export HYPERION_HOME
PLN_JAR_PATH=/opt/hyperion/Planning/lib
export PLN_JAR_PATH
PLN_PROPERTIES_PATH=/opt/hyperion/deployments/Tomcat5/HyperionPlanning/webapps/HyperionPlanning/WEB-INF/classes
export PLN_PROPERTIES_PATH
CLASSPATH=${PLN_JAR_PATH}/HspJS.jar:${PLN_PROPERTIES_PATH}:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/hbrhppluginjar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/jakarta-regexp-1.4.
jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/hyjdbc.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/iText.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/iTextAsian.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/mail.jar:${PLN_JAR_PA
TH}/jdom.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/dom.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/sax.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/xercesImpl.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/jaxp-api.jar:${PL
N_JAR_PATH}/classes12.zip:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/db2java.zip:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/db2jcc.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/common/CSS/9.3.1/lib/css-9_
3_1.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/common/CSS/9.3.1/lib/ldapbp.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/log4j.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/log4j-1.2.8.jar:${PLN_JAR_
PATH}/hbrhppluginjar.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/ess_japi.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/ess_es_server.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/commons-httpclient-3.
0.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/commons-codec-1.3.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/jakarta-slide-webdavlib.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/ognl-2.6.7.jar:${HYPE
RION_HOME}/common/CLS/9.3.1/lib/cls-9_3_1.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/common/CLS/9.3.1/lib/EccpressoAll.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/common/
CLS/9.3.1/lib/flexlm.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/common/CLS/9.3.1/lib/flexlmutil.jar:${HYPERION_HOME}/AdminServices/server/lib/easse
rverplugin.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/interop-sdk.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/HspCopyApp.jar:${PLN_JAR_PATH}/commons-logging.jar:${CLASSPATH
export CLASSPATH
case $OS in
HP-UX)
SHLIB_PATH=${HYPERION_HOME}/common/EssbaseRTC/9.3.1/bin:${HYPERION_HOME}/Planning/lib:${SHLIB_PATH:-}
export SHLIB_PATH
SunOS)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HYPERION_HOME}/common/EssbaseRTC/9.3.1/bin:${HYPERION_HOME}/Planning/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
AIX)
LIBPATH=${HYPERION_HOME}/common/EssbaseRTC/9.3.1/bin:${HYPERION_HOME}/Planning/lib:${LIBPATH:-}
export LIBPATH
echo "$OS is not supported"
esac
We have not made any changes to either the shell or 'CubeRefresh.sh' or 'setHPenv.sh'
From the past couple of days the shell that executes 'CubeRefresh.sh' has been failing with the error message below.
Cube refresh failed with error: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling return; nested exception is:
java.io.EOFException
This error is causing our Essbase cubes to not get refreshed from Planning cubes through these batch jobs.
On the other hand the manual refesh from within Planning works.
We are on Hyperion® Planning – System 9 - Version : 9.3.1.1.10
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andy
Edited by: Andy_D on Jul 30, 2012 9:04 AM

"External Data Refresh Failed" in Excel Workbook in SharePoint 2013

Hi Everyone,
I hope someone can help me sort this out. I wasn't sure if this should be submitted to SQL Server 2012 or SharePoint 2013 but I think I have ruled out an actual SQL issue here.
I have a test SharePoint 2013 Farm installed on one server. On that server we have SQL Server 2012 Standard (Database Engine Only) installed as one instance for SharePoint 2013. SharePoint 2013 is installed as Enterprise.
On another server I have SQL Server 2012 Enterprise installed I have both the Database Engine and Analysis Services installed on that server in one Instance.
I have created a new Analysis Services Cube and stored in on that server using VS 2012 Data Tools.   I then use Office 2013 Excel and create a new Pivot Table and bring in that data into that workbook. I save that workbook to my desktop and
can click on the DATA tab and do a "Refresh All" and the data is refreshed with no problem.
I then Save that Workbook to SharePoint 2013 in my Business Center documents library. I then try to do a Data Refresh and get the following error: External Data Refresh Failed. We were unable to refresh one or more data connections in the workbook. The following
connections failed to refresh: servername ConnectionName.
Let me tell you a little bit about how I have my SharePoint 2013 setup.
In Application Management ==> Secure Store Service - I have a Target Application Id setup with an AD account name and password.
In Application Management ==> Excel Services Application Settings - I an using an Unattended Service Account that is pointing to the Target Application ID that I setup in Secure Store Service.
Now in SQL Server 2012. I have made the AD account name and password a SYSADMIN account (because nothing seemed to work) and mapped that login to my Database that I created my cube from.
I have went into the Properties of my Analysis Server on SQL Server 2012 and out that AD userid in the Security Page as a Server Administrator.
Now let me tell you the real kicker here.
I also have a Sharepoint 2010 farm that we have been testing for about a year. This is something we wanted to go into production with but now have decided we will deploy our new production site on 2013.
This has the same setup only I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 as my database for SharePoint 2010, and am using SQL Server 2008 R2 on another server and instance for Database Engines and Analysis Server.
I have already created a cube on the SQL 2008 r2 Analysis Server using BIDS.
I created a Excel Pivot Table based on that cube and save it to the SharePoint 2013 site.
I then put the SSS AD account name on the SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Security as Administrator.
I pull up that Excel Workbook and go into Data and do a Refresh All and it works.
I then bring up my copy of the Excel workbook I created for my SQL Server 2012 Cube (this does not work on SP 2013) and save it to my Business Center in SP 2010. This will do a DATA Refresh on that workbook.
Another thing that I have done, (we have Office Web Apps Server running on the SP 2013 side), is set SPWOPISuppressSetting -view -extension xlsx so that when I bring up the Excel spreadsheet in 2013 it has a url with the xlviewer instead of the WOPI
url.
OK. I have went through all of my setup.   I am must wondering if I missed something in my install for this. HELP.   There can't be that much difference in the installation between 2010 and 2013.
Thanks in Advance everyone.

After many hours of research and totally burning down my SQL Server 2012 server because of the many changes I made to it, I finally found the issue that caused this and specifically why SP would not work with SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. This
time I reinstalled SQL Server 2012 from scratch again but only put SP1 on at this time. I can't be completely sure this fixed the issue since I have not put any of the other CU on the box. But, after the reinstall, everything seemed to work
perfectly from the Excel Services side.
The issue I then ran into was that I could not get my PerformancePoint Services to work with my Cubes that were created on SQL Server 2012. I received Error Message " The DataSource Provider for data sources of type 'ADOMD.NET' is not registered" on
my SharePoint 2013 Server Event Viewer.
I finally found this post on the issue:
http://yossidahan.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/cant-get-ssas-databases-to-appear-in-performance-point-dashboard-designer-check-you-adomd-net-version/
Seems that SP 2013 is built to use SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services, so you need to install the ADOMD.net from SQL Server 2008 in order for it to work.   But make sure you install Version 10 since if you install any other it doesn't seem to
work.
I feel like I wasted a whole month tracking these issues down, and I haven't been able to test PowerView, PowerPivot or SSRS yet. I hope there is not any more.

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I know capable RIPs handle gradients in way that's optimized for the device to prevent banding as good as possible. But... are RIPs capable of producing better results than adobe's screen rendering?
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