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Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007
If you want your credentials to pass throughout all your servers for PPS to work correctly, you really need to enable Kerbero's. I found a couple great articles that explain this and the process to do it. Enjoy... http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx Read More...
Useful SharePoint Site
Since PPS M&A requirements SharePoint, I bet you find yourself doing a lot of SharePoint setup and development. I found the following link today that I have found kind of useful. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pedia/pages/home.aspx Read More...
Installing PPS on a Domain Controller
I got this from an internal document on how to install PPS on the same machine that has Active Directory installed. Domain Controllers While it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most AD administrators will tell you that a domain controller should not run other Read More...
Integrate SharePoint Web Parts into a PerformancePoint Server Dashboard
I saw this question on an internal Microsoft alias, so I answered it and several people like the answer so I figured I should blog it... Question : What are the possibilities for combining Dashboard elements (KPIs, scorecards, filters and reports) with Read More...
Performance Tuning and Capacity planning for PPS M&A
Found this article on PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics performance tuning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb660539.aspx Read More...
Migrating PPS Applications and Dashboards - TIPS
This is from my BI Manager Kristi Taylor We recently began the process of migrating a PPS Application from our development environment into test and into production. We utilized the Planning Server Data Migration Wizard to help us accomplish this task. Read More...
.NET Framework 3.5 replacement for AJAX v1.0
PPS M&A requires AJAX v1.0 installed. Well, recently Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the AJAX. Well, on a couple of my server rebuilds using .NET Framework 3.5, SharePoint runs just fine. But, when I install PPS M&A, it Read More...
Implementing a Hyperlink from a KPI in a Scorecard
You know, there used to be a neat feature in BSM2005 that when you clicked on a KPI you could redirect to a URL. Well, that feature didn't make it over to PPS 2007. BUT, do not fret, there is a work around. I found the following article on the PPS Team Read More...
Time Intelligence expressions for PPS M&A
So, if you where like me and hit F1 for help when trying to figure out the time intelligence expressions and couldn't find any meaningful factoids, please use the following link. It is a very powerful feature if you know the sytax. Thanks for the pointer Read More...
Link several reports to a single KPI enabling discriminative report rendering in PPS dashboards
Today we have another blog entry by Kristi Taylor who does a lot of PPS M&A and Planning projects for us. Here is an example I built for allowing users the option to select alternative views of charts and reports designed specifically for each KPI: Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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