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October 2007 - Posts

One Hop, Two Hop, Three Hop and you are screwed...
So when you are building your PerformancePoint Server solutions, if you have everything on one machine it works great, but when you setup seperate machines, security always becomes kind of a pain. You need to setup Kerberos to setup trust between the Read More...
PerformancePoint Server Hype Meter
Found this web site today. Basically they index blogs and their keywords. Kind of interesting but they are not indexing my site so I would take it with grain of salt. English posts that contain Performancepoint Server per day for the last 90 days. 10/30 Read More...
White paper: Performance tuning and capacity planning for PerformancePoint Monitoring Server
This white paper is for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 administrators and IT professionals who want guidance about Monitoring Server performance capabilities. This guidance includes how performance is affected by security settings, number Read More...
Microsoft® System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008
This is just a shameless plug, but we worked as part of the feature development team for Mobile Device Manager 2008. My team was responsible for the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports/service within this new product. If you are looking at managing Read More...
PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecard Migration Tool
You'll need this if you want to migrate your BSM 2005 scorecards to PerformancePoint Server. The PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecard Migration Tool enables users to migrate their Business Scorecard Manager 2005 scorecards to Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Read More...
PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics Topology
I finally found the topology diagram for Monitoring and Analytics. Read More...
More PerformancePoint Server Scorecard Screens for City Government
Here are some more screenshots of PPS in action for city government. Hey, the government has Tax Performance scorecards. I guess they are making sure they are getting their fair share of tax revenue. Read More...
Nasty little Dashboard bug with Monitoring and Analytics
So if you publish a dashboard to MOSS (SharePoint Portal) and you have click events to charts on KPIs, you might notice a bug when you click on the kpi no charts show. A quick fix is being worked on, but you might need a work around to get your dashboards Read More...
PerformancePoint Server Monitoring and Analystics for City Government
This was a pretty fund proof-of-concept project that I have been working on. We have been upgrading a Business Scorecard Management installation to PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics. I thought I would post a couple blog entries on the screens. Read More...
Using the SharePoint and PerformancePoint Server APIs
On a current project, we had a requirement to associate Tasks, Documents, Links and Commentary with Scorecards and KPIs. We decided to integrate with SharePoints custom lists as it just made sense to use SharePoints content management and storage features Read More...
Migrating from BSM to PPS using the migration tool
I've been using the migration tool to move about 30 scorecards from BSM 2005 to PPS M&A. It works very good. BUT... You'll run into this for sure. I found if you try to change the font color, bold or italtics on a scorecard, it might throw a "Object Read More...
Installing PerformancePoint Server Monitoring and Analytic WebParts
You might run into this in the future and it took a while to find the information on how to do this. Got easier when I headed over to building 31 where the PPS group is located to get the answer. Anyway, I have a scenario where I have two SharePoint Collections Read More...
SAP to Buy Business Objects for $6.8B
NEW YORK (AP) -- SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer valued at more than 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion), the companies said Sunday. Under the terms of the agreement, SAP, the world's largest maker of business Read More...