The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.

Hi All,

I'm developing a package on the development server to load data from Excel. I created excel connection manager and when i tried to use the 'Excel Source' in the dataflow task. I'm getting the following error:

The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.

What i did was i downloaded and installed the drivers from the following link

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255

I restarted the server and still i'm getting the same error, can anyone please point where i'm going wrong? Have i downloaded the wrong set of drivers/

Server Information:Windows Server 2008 R2,SP1

Thanks