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 [ Read More ]
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.
The wait is over! Download yours now! I’m giggling like a little girl! Details about the release may be found here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx ..and of course, the distros: Enterprise Version
Now that SP1 has hit, I bet a lot of people are wondering about SP1 / SQL Server 2008 compatability. In fact, the PPS Help and How To page hints at same, saying (bold is mine): PerformancePoint Server 2007 with Service
Barry Tousley, an SDET on the PerformancePoint Server team has released a tool to help you do PPS planning data migration. You can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FA1C6CAD-45BD-4E5C-A257-4BBA84FA4224&
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
