Last night I patched and rebooted our SharePoint 2010 server. Everything looked fine but this morning the Excel web viewer is broken. When trying to open a spreadsheet I get an error box stating, "Unable to process request. Wait a few minutes and try performing this operation again."
The Excel Calculation Service is running, the Application Pool is running and using a valid domain account, and I've even reinstalled the Excel Services Application.
Any other suggestions as to how to get this functional again?
Logs:
07/06/2012 16:09:44.24 w3wp.exe (0x1F50) 0x10D8 SharePoint Foundation Topology e5mc Medium WcfSendRequest: RemoteAddress: 'http://server:9999/{id}/ExcelService.asmx' Channel: 'Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.CalculationServer.Proxy.IExcelServiceSoap' Action: 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/Excel/Server/WebServices/ExcelServerInternalService/ExcelServiceSoap/GetHealthScore' MessageId: 'urn:uuid:{id}' {id}
07/06/2012 16:09:44.24 w3wp.exe (0x1F50) 0x10D8 Excel Services Application Web Front End acbd Critical Unable to reach Excel Calculation Services http://server:9999/{id}/ExcelService*.asmx. [Session: User: DOMAIN\user] {id}
07/06/2012 16:09:44.24 w3wp.exe (0x1F50) 0x10D8 Excel Services Application Web Front End accf Medium ServerSession.ProcessWebException: A Web exception during ExecuteWebMethod has occurred for server: http://server:9999/{id}/ExcelService*.asmx, method: GetHealthScore, ex: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable. at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpChannelFactory.HttpRequestChannel.HttpChannelRequest.WaitForReply(TimeSpan timeout), response: 'System.Net.HttpWebResponse', status ProtocolError, user name: DOMAIN\user. {id}
07/06/2012 16:09:44.24 w3wp.exe (0x1F50) 0x10D8 Excel Services Application Web Front End acco Critical There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services http://server:9999/{id}/ExcelService*.asmx exception: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable. [Session: User: DOMAIN\user]. {id} 2159 Critical Event 5231 (Excel Services Application) of severity 'Error' occurred 10 more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log
07/06/2012 16:09:44.38 w3wp.exe (0x1F50) 0x1248 SharePoint Server Unified Logging Service 2159 Critical Event 5239 (Excel Services Application) of severity 'Error' occurred 10 more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log
07/06/2012 16:09:46.55 w3wp.exe (0x1D04) 0x2670 SharePoint Foundation Topology
Oddly enough, I resolved the issue with a simple restart. It had a clean reboot the day before after being patched so I was very skeptical that it would help, but it did.
Here's the article with the explanation: Error communicating with Excel Services Application - Events 5231 5239 5240