23 Responses to “All Up BI VPC 7.1 Available for Public Download”

1. Dan English Says:
   December 27th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

   Your links are not going to work since they have the Microsft mail OWA reference in them. You need to remove the redirect to enable them for everyone to reference. I believe there are 8 parts to the download. Microsoft Business Intelligence VPC Release 7.1 – http://denglishbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CD3E77E793DF6178!832.entry

2. Russell Says:
   December 28th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   Thanks! Updated the links. I think this distro is a bit different than the one you reference – it only has 7 parts and was only released on the 27th – looks like the one you reference has been around longer.

   FYI, the main difference between 7.1 and 7.0 is that the 7.1 distro is a touch smaller (contains some perf enhancements) and contains 19 click thru demos which mimic what you can show on the VPC itself. 7.1 also was released in 17-18 localized versions.

3. Microsoft All-Up BI VPC is available - Andrew Karcher's Bits o' Data Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 6:47 am

   [...] you are looking for.  You can access the links to download all the parts of the VPC here: (http://performancepointblog.com/2008/12/all-up-bi-vpc-71-available-for-public-download/),  I have setup up the VPC and played around a little bit and things seem to be working really [...]

4. Regina Zamora Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 10:14 am

   Hi, I am getting the following error message when extracting the files:

   Extracting BI VPC R7.1.vhd
   Extracting from BI VPC R7.1.part02.rar
   Write error in the file BI VPC R7.1.vhd. Probably the disk is full

   I am extracting the files onto an external USB hard drive (120gb free space). I also had the same error message when trying to extract the BI VPC version 6.

   Hope you can help me out on this. I’ve been trying to get this BI VPC up and running for the past week already.

   Thanks in advance.

5. Running the Microsoft All Up BI 7.1 VPC on an external hard drive « Business Intelligence Easy Street Says:
   January 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

   [...] http://performancepointblog.com/2008/12/all-up-bi-vpc-71-available-for-public-download/ [...]

6. xpherion Says:
   January 16th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

   I was looking for this. Thanks for sharing.

7. xpherion Says:
   January 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

   I saw windows 2008 version demo. Do you know anything about that version?

8. Russell Says:
   January 17th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

   The Windows 2008 Demo (some people are calling it “R8″) is indeed on 2008. It contains the Contoso Oil & Gas demo which was demonstrated at the BI Conference in October. No decisions as far as if and when it may become available. It also isn’t a “pure” 2008 image anyway (SQL 2008, PPS SP2), so you may be slightly less interested…

9. Russell Says:
   January 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   Regina, I haven’t seen this error myself. If it happens on disks on you have enough room, I’d suspect that the archives themselves are corrupt. Do they “test clean” when you use WinRAR’s “Test Archive” feature?

10. Ajay Singh Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 6:28 am

    Regina,
    Make sure the drive where you are extracting the VPC file is formatted using NTFS and not FAT32, as FAT32 can only support files upto 4GB in size whereas the VPC extract will result into a file of size around 15GB.

11. David Street Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Regina, your external hard drive is likely formatted as FAT32 which only allows files less than 4 GB. To get around this file size limitation, you need to reformat it to NTFS. See my post for further details. http://bieasystreet.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/running-the-microsoft-all-up-bi-71-vpc-on-an-external-hard-drive/

12. mial14 Says:
    March 1st, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    I used this image to create a trend analysis chart based on a scrorecard but I face each time among others the following issues :

    The predicted values are not showed in red but in blue, just like the values from the past.
    Each time I publish it, the values are not preserved as in designer. It defaults to All member on both axis that is to an original state thereby my chart ‘vanishes’ to a point.
    When set on a dashboard, it is just a picture. No fields, or any interactivity opporunities at all.

    The Analysis services property DataMing\AllowSessionMiningModels was already set to true.
    In my dashboardesigner, under Options, Server tab , Connect then Server Options, I write the value for the AS instance as BI-VPC ( the same name used by Management Studio to connect to). Pressed OK, and I could see that the value was set.
    I’m logged as local administrator on this VPC image.

    Is it limited functionality with this VPC image or a missing service pack or a setting, or I misundestood some basic facts etc.

    Thank you a lot for your further help.

    Best regards,
    mial14
    Denmark

13. The STATUS of vitual machine is running , but I can not see the machine Says:
    March 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Hi there,

    Any guy can let me know where and how to check the vitual machine out, I mean I can not find the guesting operating system and have no idea how to interact with it. I installed the Vitual server 2005 SP1 and latest update pack also, created vitual machine pointing to the vhd image. all status in the administration site is fine.

    it is my first time working with MS vitual server/machine technology, so got confused I can not find the running vitual machine out. I used VMWARE that is so easy to get a guest application done.

    Thanks for your instruction.

14. Russell Says:
    March 15th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    After you created the image, did you start it in the VS Admin Console (the same Web UI that you created the image in to begin with?) If so, if nothing else you should see an image of your image “lighting up” in the console itself as the VM posts, the OS loads, etc…Then use the Virtual Machine Remote Client to connect.

15. The STATUS of vitual machine is running , but I can not see the machine Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Hi Russel,

    Thanks for your response so quick. sure I started it in the WebUI and I can do any operation, turn off / save status etc. the point is, you mean I have to work with the PPS vitual machine by connecting it with the progam ‘Virtual Machine Remote Client’?

    Anyway, I used the Vitual PC 2007 and I’ve got guest os running interactively with me.

16. Administator password of the 2003 server? Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    I hope there is some essential documentation so we can get the image machine to function smoonthly!

17. Russell Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    pass@word1

    As recall, all that stuff is in the readme that comes in the archive.

18. readme file Re: Administator password of the 2003 server? Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks a lot. but I did not see any rendme file after I extracted the 7 arch files, what I got was and is only one single “BI VPC R7.1.vhd” file. can you post the readme file on this page?

    Best regards,
    Ike

19. Resolved Re: Administator password of the 2003 server? Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Hi Russel,

    Thanks for the really precious demo stuff and your team great effort.

    My problem is resolved.

    Ike

20. Clive Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Hi,

    Any news on whether we’ll see a SQL 2008 version of the VPC in the coming months?
    Keen to get to grips with the Dundas reporting.

    Thanks.

21. Russell Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    The next version of All Up, is “R8″ – It will probably be a while before it is available externally because as I understand it, one can’t time-bomb the Windows 2008 OS in the same way we did with the Win 2003 (r5-r7) images, and we obviously aren’t going to release the VPC without some sort of expiration mechanism…so the demo guys need to figure out how to address this.

22. Object moved Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    [...] consistent site – Russel Christopher’ blog, who works for Microsoft – to find the download bits:   http://performancepointblog.com/2008/12/all-up-bi-vpc-71-available-for-public-download/    Enjoy!Posted at 6:27 AM by DEDI548slennon | Category: Business Intelligence | Permalink | [...]

23. Ness Says:
    October 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Hi everyone,

    I installed the MS BI VPC 2007 in my own machine. I have a couple of questions, I hope you can help me with this one.

    1. I tried accessing the report manager in BIVPC using this http://bi-vpc/reports but they redirect me to their sharepoint site(http://bi-vpc/Reports/Pages/Default.aspx). I tried this one also http://localhost/reports but same thing they redirect me to http://bi-vpc/Reports/Pages/Default.aspx.

    Is there a way that I can access the Report Manager in BI-VPC wherein I can create and edit the “folder”,”Report Builder”,and “Datasource” or we are not permitted to access this one?

    2. I got an error msg when I tried deploying my report model project from BIDS using this targetURL: http://bi-vpc/ReportServer. The error below was what I got.

    “The path of the item ‘/Data Sources/Adventure Works’ is not valid. The full path must be less than 260 characters long; other restrictions apply. If the report server is in native mode, the path must start with slash”

    I tried using the default URL which is the http://localhost/ReportServer but I got this error “Report Server has encountered a SharePoint error” instead.

    Did anyone encountered the same problem before? Your help will be appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Ness

    Thanks a lot,
    Agnes

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