Currently, I have this question posed in the Excel Developers forum. This scenario bleeds over into my SSIS connection manager. Link below
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/thread/b9baba38-220e-4714-a463-bc667a916bb7
Summary of what has been proven out.
- I need a SSIS package to access an Excel file on a https SharePoint site - This is done and validated
- I need to be able to read data from a protected tab - Have issues previewing and reading the source tab
Since I ran into issues validating the true value in cells, I added Allow Users to Edit permissions to allow my user to access and read data. This partially worked, I can select cells and changes values as needed. However, in the forumla bar, the values all show as blank so I cannot be certain if the original value was a calculation or free text.
My thoery is that because I cannot see the true value in the formula bar, SSIS cannot read the data on this protected tab. Has anyone else come across this issue before or know a work around with using the same process to grab the data?