Symptoms

If you use Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CU3 PowerPivot or an earlier version, one of the following conditions is true when you view PowerPivot data on a SharePoint website by using Excel Services:

  • There are unsupported Excel Services features or a schedule that has a bad password in the workbook.

  • A scheduled data refresh is executed on the workbook.

You may receive the following generic error message without any other detailed information on the Data Refresh History page:

Call to Excel Services returned an error

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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