Hi. I'm getting a little clearer on the difference between TechNet and MSDN and am hoping this question is appropriate for this forum. It seems to have died on the vine in the msdn forum. Pls let me know where I'm taking a wrong turn or what the solution to my dilemma is. If this isn't the TechNet forum, my apologies as I've probably now posted the same question twice to msdn.
We run 2014 enterprise.
Basically I'm under the impression that to debug an ssis pkg that uses excel, u have to flip the run as 64 bit option to false. And that ssis then picks up a 32 bit excel add in that you've added to your pc from a link I could probably find and post here. In my situation the excel connector that seemed the friendliest was ace... which I believe is related to access. I believe there were other connector choices but I vaguely remember errors popping up while trying to use them and difficulty in determining why those errors were occurring. So I settled on the access connector.
I'm also under the impression that generally a 64 bit version of excel shouldn't be installed on the same pc as a 32 bit version of excel. In fact, under normal circumastances, the installer catches u and asks if its ok to delete the other. So wrong or right, I uninstalled office on one of my pc's just so that I could debug ssis that uses excel. I should add that I see all sorts of hacks to get around this side by side thing but my understanding is that it isn't condoned by MS.
Finally, I should add that at the moment office 365 isn't possible for me and that my understanding is that when ssis runs in production, the 64 bit vs 32 bit dilemma goes away because its not a debug situation. Can someone shed some light on or all or part of my confusion?