PPS SP2

For those of you that are using Performance Point Server, SP2 just came out. If you don’t feel like trying to figure out what is new in it, it’s simple… SP2 means PPS will now run under SQL 2008, and also Hyper-V. Yeap, that’s it! Your end users won’t notice a difference at all. Bookmark [...]

Performance Point: Service Account Tip!

Scratching my head on this one for at least a few hours today… I am working to FINALLY promote our PPS environment to out distributed Production environment. We are putting the monitoring database on a clustered SQL server, and came across an interesting problem. Even though you may be able to connect to the database [...]

Sharepoint as a viable Business Intelligence Platform.

As like any of you who have embarked on the adventure of a fully implemented enterprise solution using Microsoft Sharepoint, there is no doubt that extended that has been a hot topic on your minds. For me, that has meant the world of Business Intelligence. And they want it to be easy, and they want [...]

Error Restoring PDW sample data cube in 2008

Spent about 2 hours scratching my head on this issue… oh it made me mad! If you are working with the PDW sample OLAP database (asking you to restore it to Analysis Server), and you get this: Microsoft made a boo boo, and they have the updated version of that database here. Bookmark on Delicious [...]

Performance Point: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.WebParts’

If you’re working with Performance Point Server, and get an error when you try to deploy your reports to Sharepoint that says something along the lines of: “An error occurred during the processing of /SiteCollectionDocuments/SSA Dashboard/Page 1.aspx. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.WebParts, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=XXXXXXXXXXXX’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot [...]