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Had a question come up about how to use a SharePoint document library within PPS.   Use the following steps to create it. Open SharePoint Designer and open your SPS site Create an ASP.NET page Drag and drop your document library onto the page Attach the SPS stylesheet so it looks pretty Save it to the document library on the ...

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 applications. Since your domain controllers are the ''keys'' to your network ''kingdom'', ...

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 SharePoint elements (e.g. as shown below: list of links, announcement and shared ...

Found this article on PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics performance tuning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb660539.aspx    

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. Although this wizard saved us a lot of time we still ran into some problems and I would like to ...

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 crashes the SharePoint page on startup.   When I ...

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 blog site.   Not a perfect solution, but it ...

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 ...

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: Here are the steps to follow:1. Right click on the ...

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 of users, scalability, and load capacity, among other areas. Considerations for hardware ...