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Comment on SQL Reporting Services: What does that “Thread pool pressure” warning mean? by Russell

Russell — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:17:47 +0000

Great question, and I’m not 100% sure. I’d assume this is processor-related since we’re talking about threads - but am not sure. Let’s see what I can dig up back at the office…

Comment on SQL Reporting Services: What does that “Thread pool pressure” warning mean? by Doug Olson

Doug Olson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:46:02 +0000

So, what changes can be made to help the server out and avoid this. Is it system memory, processor speed, or disk space? I want to have my reports back as fast as possible, so when I see this I’d like to know how it can be addressed.

Comment on SQL Server 2008 RTM’d yesteday. Now I gotta rebuild all my demos! by Louis

Louis — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:27:29 +0000

I install Performance Point Server 2007 x64 on a Windows 2008 DataCenter Edition and SQL Server 2008 across two server. From my installation it appears that SQL server 2005 has been hard coded in the application? I’m unable to configure anything. Have you seen this problem?

Thanks

Louis

Comment on Is PerformancePoint SP1 supported on SQL 2008? No, but… by Russell

Russell — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:37:47 +0000

Well, I have colleagues who have gotten a complete system (PPS, ProClarity Desktop & PAS) up and running using Windows 2008 & SQL 2008 - but I’d never consider this in a production / qa / test environment since you’d be completely unsupported.

I began trying this out myself and ran into too many roadblocks - didn’t have the time to resolve them all, so I just went back to SQL 2005.

Right now I’d recommend you keep running with SQL 2005…unless you do SQL Reporting. There is *SO* much good stuff in SSRS 2008, I’d be tempted to install SSRS 2008 *only* so I could take advantage of Dundas charts and other nice visualizations.

If you go this route, you won’t be able to use the PPS “SQL Report” report view until SP2 hits - Instead, you’d need to expose the report in your dashboard by using a web report view instead, and using it to point to the URL where your SSRS 2008 report lives.

Comment on Is PerformancePoint SP1 supported on SQL 2008? No, but… by Harsh

Harsh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:41:29 +0000

Now that SQL 2008 is out - and PPS SP2 is expected by early next year - do you have any suggested workarounds in the meantime? Or what would you suggest as an installation strategy so that we don’t have to do too much uninstall later on…

Reply greatly appreciated. Thanks

Comment on What to do when PerformancePoint display actions don’t work by Neo

Neo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:24:24 +0000

Thanks alot for the steps..it helped me a lot.. i was not understanding what the problem was with the Performance server. The steps you specified helped.

Comment on SQL Server 2005 Cumulative Update 8 Released - OK with PPS SP1? by Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog : performancepointblog by Russel Christopher

Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog : performancepointblog by Russel Christopher — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:03:39 +0000

[...] 2008). Russel also posts about other compatibility issues such as SQL Server’s cumulative update 8 here. Another post includes a solution for Error "Server failed to return the table schema" [...]

Comment on Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC by Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog : performancepointblog by Russel Christopher

Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog : performancepointblog by Russel Christopher — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:03:18 +0000

[...] sum up my favorite posts, Russel discusses PPS Service Pack 1 compatibility with the "All-up BI VPC". Click here for a complete list VPC downloads of everything that [...]

Comment on Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC by Russell

Russell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:35:12 +0000

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

Comment on Installing PerformancePoint SP1 on the AllUp BI VPC by Rich Chapler

Rich Chapler — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:38:38 +0000

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

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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.