Installing Performance Point Monitoring & Analysis Server (PPS M&A) in POC Environment

Just follow the screen shots. I will provide additional information where needed.

Figure 1: Select Install Monitoring Server.

Figure 2: Of course, accept the terms if and only if you agree to them. Select Next.

Figure 3: Select Next.

Figure 4: Select Install.

Figure 5: Select Finish.

Figure 6: Select Next.

Figure 7: Select Next.

You should have most of the software in this list already in your environment. See links below for assistance with some of these components.

• ASP.NET 2.0 Registration with IIS
  Run the following command: “C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727aspnet_regiis.exe –i”.
• ADOMD.NET 9.0
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b97994-8453-4998-8226-fa42ec403d17&DisplayLang=en
• Report Designer for Visual Studio 2005 | SQL Server Native Client 9.0
  Just install SQL Client Tools when installing SQL Server 2005.
• ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ca9d90fa-e8c9-42e3-aa1908e2c027f5d6&displaylang=en
• Others
  See SQL Server Books Online (BOL) for Reporting Services installation.

Figure 8: Select Next.

Figure 9: Select Next. In this example, the name of the installation server is MOSS.

Figure 10: Select Next. Stick with defaults. Only change the port number if it is already used by another application in your development environment.

Figure 11: Select Next.

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Note: I am using “administrator” account in this example to make things simple. Microsoft recommends that the Monitoring Server application pool identity account is a domain user account and has the identity of the SharePoint site on which Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services is installed.

Figure 12: Select Next. This will install the PPS M&A web part in the your SharePoint environment.

Figure 13: Select Next. Notice that the Installation is pointing to SQL instance and not the server.

Figure 14: Select Next.

Figure 15: Review Screen (1)

Figure 16: Review Screen (2). Select Configure.

Figure 17: Done! Select Close.

Now let’s examine some of the internal changes that our arduous “NEXT … NEXT … NEXT “ installation process has made.

Open Internet Information Services Management Console.

Figure 18: PPS Monitoring installation has created three application pools and a PPS Monitoring web site.

Figure 19: Details of application pools and PPS Monitoring web site.

Open SQL Server Management Studio

Figure 20: SQL Server Management Studio showing PPS M&A database and PPS M&A tables.

Open PPS Monitoring Central Web Site by going to the following URL: http://localhost:40000. Remember that we picked port 40000 for PPS Monitoring Central Web Site.

Figure 21: Monitoring Central web site. Click Go button to view Dashboard Designer Preview Site.

Figure 22: The preview site is empty because we have not deployed any dashboard to performance point yet. Go back to Monitoring Central main page. This time click Run button to download and install Performance Point Dashboard Designer. Dashboard Designer is a .NET click once application. Once installation is done, Dashboard Designer client application will launch automatically.

Figure 23: Select Run.

Figure 24

Figure 25: PPS M&A Dashboard Designer.

Now let’s go to our SharePoint instance (http://moss in this example) and ensure that our new PPS M&A web part is there.

Figure 26: PerformancePoint Dashboard Item web part.

HTH,

Talha