Update: I have added some links to tools that should help you overcome this limitation. We were told that Excel Services has support for displaying data from external locations, such as SQL server, and that's great! Until you try it out and fail.. Try creating a simple excel document with a Table that displays data from a SQL server table . Now try to view it in Excel Web Access. You will fail with the following error: The thing is, Excel services supports displaying data from external data sources...