SAP EPM Addin for Excel 10 - SAP BW (INA-Provider) connection

Hello,
We are trying to connect with the EPM Excel Addin 10 on our SAP BW on HANA 7.4 SP7. We are trying to use the SAP BW (INA-Provider) connection as described in documentation. There is a screen where you could choose the SAP GUI connection and you have to fill in the port number and client. We are using HTTP protocoll.
But the connection doesnt work. We are facing the following error message:
Http #2: Unable to connect to the remote server:
There is one special thing in our SAP GUI. We have a router string for the connection. And I think there are some problems with BO tools and such connections.
Does enybody has some expierence with this connection?
Best regards
Nils

Hi,
We have definitely heard your frustration, and Microsoft understands the position our customers are in and we are actively working to find a solution besides a FixIt that can be deployed to remedy the issue.
We can also remove the MS14-082 Microsoft Office Security Updates for December 2014 by temporary bypassing this issue.
If we have any update, I'll post in this forum and you can focus
this blog
============
Update,
Hotfixes for this issue have been released in the March 2015 Updates for Office 2007, 2010 & 2013.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2014/12/13/forms-controls-stop-working-after-december-2014-updates-.aspx
Thanks for your understanding.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
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