PerformancePoint Server Service Pack 2
Hello again!
Hal Zucati here from the PerformancePoint UA writing team once again to share with you a bit of pre-release information on the PerformancePoint Service Pack 2 (SP2) documentation I'm currently working on.
This information is presented here for reference use only and should not be viewed or used as a substitute to the formal update that will be published to our TechNet library at the beginning of December here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514367.aspx
At this time the link above will mostly likely be where the SP2 information will be published, replacing the current SP1 documentation. After talking with the PerformancePoint Product team about the upcoming SP2 release, I have learned that the following is forthcoming:
Monitoring Server will be a refresh of the existing SP1 documentation and will have only invisible updates (see below).
Planning Server will have both refreshed content as well as additional new content (see below) .
· There will be several fixes and updates that are invisible to users. This means that while you as the end user cannot see the changes, they are there, making PerformancePoint Monitoring Server better than before.
· PerformancePoint Server SP2 supports SQL Server 2008. This means that for existing installations of PerformancePoint Server (Planning and Monitoring) with SQL Server 2005, you can upgrade to SQL Server 2008 with no further action required. All your data, structure and PerformancePoint connections will be updated along with SQL Server. For new deployments of PerformancePoint Server to SQL Server 2008 there are a few things that you will need to do to make all the appropriate connections, but not many, and these will all be outlined in the upcoming documentation.
· As noted previously by Norm, Hyper-V support has been added. Norm is the writer for that subject area and has provided some great information in previous postings here on this blog. (Look at his October 14th posting.)
New articles in the works:
o How to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008
o How to install PPS on a clean install of SQL Server 2008
o Install several SQL Server 2005 components BEFORE SQL Server 2008 (this is a PerformancePoint Server requirement)
o Upgrade security changes
Both the updated and the new information will be published to our TechNet library around the beginning of December 2008.
I'd like to thank everyone who visits this blog and encourage you to review our TechNet library often for the most up to date information.
- Hal
