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PerformancePoint Server Service Pack 2 Almost Here

Posted by Russell on December - 5 - 2008

The landing page for PerformancePoint SP2 just appeared at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx. While as of yet there are no download links on the page, I think it’s safe to guess that we’ll see the distro in the next day or so. Happy patching!

I have the AllUpBI VPC R7 (and you don’t!)

Posted by Russell on July - 26 - 2008

Sorry, couldn’t resist! Yesterday (or maybe it was the day before, I forget), the next rev of AllUp was released internally at Microsoft. It includes 3 new demos including a “deep dive” around PPS Planning, and new stuff for the manufacturing and

I spent a chunk of time this morning scratching my head when I couldn’t get PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics display actions working in MOSS. They worked fine in certain dashboards I had  already published, but different dashboards publish

While building out some dimensions today, I ran into the following error while using Planning Business Modeler. The error occurred when I selected the name of a table/view in my data source:

Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC

Posted by Russell on June - 17 - 2008

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, an

CU8 was relaeased yesterday for download here. Question is, has it been tested with PerformancePoint SP1? As soon as I know, I’ll post more here: Update (6/18/2008): One of my customers wanted to know about this, and here’s the deal: SP1 got the f

As many of you know, Microsoft has a super-duper-fantastic (and free) VPC that you can download with all of our BI goodness pre-installed and configured. It’s called the “AllUp BI” VPC, and if you want more details, do a bit of reading here.

PeformancePoint Analytic Grid & localization

Posted by Russell on May - 22 - 2008

If you have taken the time to implement translations in your SSAS cube, it is comforting to know that the Analytic Grid can and will display your localized text. From what I can gather, we aren’t quite smart enough to simply read regional settings

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