Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC

June 17th, 2008 Russell Posted in PerformancePoint |

There has been quite a bit of internal discussion here at Microsoft around this topic since so many of us use the AllUp VPC. 

Long story short, you won’t be able to (easily) install SP1 on an “out of the box” AllUp image. Howard Morgenstern, another BI Technology Specialist has created a quick and dirty guide at http://hmorgenstern.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!28A6BE83102A0EB3!279.entry  on how to approach this scenario.

Its not a tough thing to do, but you do need to be aware of a couple issues. Thanks, Howard!

 

3 Responses to “Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC”

  1. Rich Chapler Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    When I install SP1, it makes my Dashboard Designer non functional (log below). Has anyone else run into this?

    ———————

    PLATFORM VERSION INFO
    Windows : 5.2.3790.131072 (Win32NT)
    Common Language Runtime : 2.0.50727.1433
    System.Deployment.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
    mscorwks.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
    dfdll.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)
    dfshim.dll : 2.0.50727.1433 (REDBITS.050727-1400)

    SOURCES
    Deployment url : http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/
    Server : Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    Application url : http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/3.0/PSCBuilder.exe.manifest
    Server : Microsoft-IIS/6.0

    IDENTITIES
    Deployment Identity : Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Scorecard Builder.app, Version=3.0.3916.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3bce3770c238a49, processorArchitecture=x86
    Application Identity : Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Scorecard Builder.exe, Version=3.0.3916.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3bce3770c238a49, processorArchitecture=x86, type=win32

    APPLICATION SUMMARY
    * Online only application.

    ERROR SUMMARY
    Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
    * Activation of http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/ resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
    + Downloading http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/3.0/en/PSCBuilder.resources.dll did not succeed.
    + The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

    COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY
    No transaction error was detected.

    WARNINGS
    There were no warnings during this operation.

    OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS
    * [6/24/2008 2:23:52 PM] : Activation of http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/ has started.
    * [6/24/2008 2:24:11 PM] : Processing of deployment manifest has successfully completed.
    * [6/24/2008 2:24:11 PM] : Installation of the application has started.
    * [6/24/2008 2:24:11 PM] : Processing of application manifest has successfully completed.
    * [6/24/2008 2:24:12 PM] : Request of trust and detection of platform is complete.

    ERROR DETAILS
    Following errors were detected during this operation.
    * [6/24/2008 2:24:36 PM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype)
    - Downloading http://localhost:40000/DesignerInstall/3.0/en/PSCBuilder.resources.dll did not succeed.
    - Source: System.Deployment
    - Stack trace:
    at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
    at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles()
    at System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState)
    at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDependencies(SubscriptionState subState, AssemblyManifest deployManifest, AssemblyManifest appManifest, Uri sourceUriBase, String targetDirectory, String group, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options)
    at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.DownloadApplication(SubscriptionState subState, ActivationDescription actDesc, Int64 transactionId, TempDirectory& downloadTemp)
    at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.InstallApplication(SubscriptionState& subState, ActivationDescription actDesc)
    at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension)
    at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state)
    — Inner Exception —
    System.Net.WebException
    - The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
    - Source: System
    - Stack trace:
    at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
    at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)

    COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS
    No transaction information is available.

  2. Russell Says:
    June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Does the file mentioned (PCSBuilder.Resources.DLL) show up on your server in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server\3.0\Monitoring\DesignerInstall\3.0\en?

    It almost sounds like all the necessary files didn’t get copied to the right places…if it is there, check permissions and make sure that the identity your web service is running under has permissions to get to the folder / file in question

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