By Thomas Bolt on 8/16/2007 9:42 AM

What a joy this morning as I looked at the connect site of PPS. CTP4 has been released this night (europe ;-))! I'm currently downloading all components and then I will try to bring them up on my virtual machine. More about my experiences with CTP4 later...

What are the key-advantages of CTP4? The following listing is a copy from the official "Whats new"-document downloaded from connect.

 

 

Planning Server

Business Modeler

· Business Rule Templates. Several additional rule templates have been added.

· PPSCmd. The command-line tool had some additions to provide ability for scripting of overall system processes. For example, the ability to deploy and reprocess models and data.

· Migration. Additional feature wo ... Read More »

By Thomas Bolt on 8/15/2007 4:09 PM

If you install ProClarity Analytics Server on the same machine as your are running a PerformancePoint Server CTP3 environment with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (for Monitoring) you will run into problems after the installation. While opening the Analytics Server Administration Tool a login-dialog appears. Whatever you type-in, a successful login isn't possible.

The problem has a simple reason. SharePoint Server creates a new Web Application for localhost Port 80, and stops the Default Web in Internet Information Services. But the setup of ProClarity Analytics Server installs its Virtual Directories into the stopped Default Web. So the Administration Tool cannot connect to the required services on http:///PAS.

To solve this problem, you just have to create the virtual directories manually in the Sharepoint - 80 Web Application. Use an own Application Pool derrived from the DefaultAppPool for these Web Applications, because the one of Sharepoint uses very complex configurations from we ... Read More »

By Thomas Bolt on 8/14/2007 4:50 PM

Today I've hardly tried to install the Planning Server Samples of the CTP2 release. I've done all the settings in the DeploymentConfig.xml correctly, but everytime I've started the Install.cmd Script I've got the following error message:

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server\2007\Samples\Alpine Ski House>install.cmd

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server\2007\Samples\Alpine Ski House>..\Scripts\DeploymentPrepare.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Creating files with tasks to be executed
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server\2007\Samples\Scripts\DeploymentPrepare.vbs(112, 17) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Path not found
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After resea ... Read More »

By Thomas Bolt on 8/14/2007 11:54 AM

Yesterday I was very glad to see that there are some CTP4 bits of PerformancePoint Server available for Microsoft employees. http://bimvp.com/blogs/bsm/archive/2007/08/10/performancepoint-server-2007-monitoring-and-analytics-got-ctp4-today.aspx 
That means that the CTP4 release is not far away. It hope that it happens this week.