Comments on: More Good Stuff Ahead: The All-up BI VPC 9.2

By: Mark Crawford

Mark Crawford — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:43:52 +0000

Hi, I’ve downloaded and unrarred the dir structure onto my server which runs Hyper-V, which looks fine. When I try to import in Hyper-V it fails saying “Failed to import the virtual machine from the import directory *mydirpath*. Error the system cannot find the path specified.(0×800700003)”.

I’m familiar with exporting and importing VMs and to me the source in the config.xml does not look as though it will work as it is set to “C:\Users\ochiu\Desktop\R9.2\BusinessIntelligenceDemo-9.2\Virtual Hard Disks\BI-SharePoint-5.vhd”. I’ve tried changing it to the path to the Virtual Hard Disk for the VM but it still fails

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:57:41 +0000

Anyone else having a tough time downloading these from the the partner site? Download speeds maxing out at 30KB… Will there be DVD’s for the partners?

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:29:00 +0000

Russell,

This is a great VM. I’ve used it several times and love it!
Can someone make sure to post any special steps required to update the VM with the updated PowerPivot release (new expiration date) when it is made available? The VM on the MSSalesDemos.com site will need the treatment as well…

By: Microsoft All UP BI Demo version 9.2 - Ella Maschiach's BI Blog

Microsoft All UP BI Demo version 9.2 - Ella Maschiach's BI Blog — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:06:47 +0000

[...] knew from Russell Christopher's blog that Microsoft All UP BI Demo version 9.2 was released to partners, but as I'm not a registered partner, that didn't help me [...]

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:36:27 +0000

Alan, part 29 was corrupt and has been re-uploaded.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:02:00 +0000

Alan it looks like this is indeed a problem. The files will be replaced as soon as they make it through our standard “web publishing protocol” – ETA unknown.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:04:12 +0000

Alan, I’ve pinged the owner to see if he’s gotten any other reports of a corrupt distro. If there is a problem & it has been corrected, I’ll post again here. You’ve tried re-downloading that file, I assume?

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:35:01 +0000

I tried unzipping and linking all 42 parts, but it keeps dying on me at part 29. Anyone get the image to unzip? Any idea what I might be doing wrong? Goes along fine with WinRAR and then just locks up on part 29 and freezes.

By: Russell

Russell — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:29:43 +0000

You’ll need to give at least 6 GB of RAM to this image. The main SQL instance (.\geminibi) does not have Max Memory set, so it will consume tons of RAM. I capped it at 1.8 GB and others have gone as low as 1 GB with decent results. I generally run the image with 8 GB.

If you plan on demo-ing this image, I’d also suggest you get very familiar with warming up all the reports, documents, powerpoint decks, etc. that you’ll show during the demo. If you hit one of these and they’re not cached, you will sit there spinning for *a while*.

By: Dan English

Dan English — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:02:49 +0000

The VHD was made available on Monday on the partner site. It is loacted under Sales & Marketing -> Sales Demos -> Product Demos.

If you don’t have the necessary hardware to run this then you will want to look at using the online demonstration site instead http://mssalesdemos.com/.

I tried running it off a external drive and gave it 2.5 GB since I only have 4 GB of RAM and it was basically useless. You definitely need the right hardware to be able to run this and an Internet connection for some of the demos (I believe the ones with the mapping functionality using MapPoint and Virtual Earth).