Installing Share Point 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Prerequisites

If you will be installing the SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7, then you will need to download and install an update from http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=23806  to resolve an issue that occurs in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 when provisioning Service Applications or when accessing pages that make service calls.  Without the hotfix, these operations will result in an error "System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\<Service Area>\client.config line <Line Number>)". 

If you have already installed Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 on a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 does not need to be reinstalled when the update becomes available; however, Service Applications that have been successfully provisioned without the update installed may need to be removed and re-provisioned once the update has been successfully applied

What’s New In Performance Point 2010

With the Release of the First Beta of Performance Point 2010 I came across an Article that Describes what’s new in PPS 2010 so I decided to Chare it here

Items that have been removed from PPS 2010:

• PPS repository – has now been transitioned into SharePoint (along with versioning)
• Preview site – items will simply be deployed to SharePoint now
• ODBC data source – will need to leverage SharePoint BDC (BCS in 2010) to get at this data (including Oracle now), create your own data source, or use Linked Server
• OWC – long over due, so this brings the end to the PivotChart, PivotTable, Trending Chart – replacement will be Excel Services and data mining functionality in Excel
• Planning – last update was the recent SP3 release for PPS 2007
• Preview button in analytic reports during design time – access this through the right-click menu now

Items that have been added in PPS 2010:

• PPS as a SharePoint Service just like Excel (and now Visio and Access)
• Leverage SharePoint security – no additional PPS security anymore, permissions have been removed from the properties tab and no more PPS roles
• SharePoint versioning – not separate anymore
• Authentication security for data sources – security not global anymore in PPS, this can be configured at the data source level – if Farm option was chosen for SharePoint and still single server install then you will need to configure Kerberos if you want to use Per-User security option
• Decomposition tree – this can be accessed through right-click in analytical reports and scorecards (goes from left to right instead of top to bottom) and this leverages SilverLight functionality, includes data bars, ability to send slices into analytical items to further analyze or export to PowerPoint or Excel, and more that can only be demoed. Unable to currently select this as an initial content type item and Performance Maps still not included (except for ProClarity)
• Analytical Pie Charts – no longer have to use ProClarity for this
• Select measures – within Analytical items you will now be able to add and select additional measure if you want to incorporate them into an existing analytical report that has already be deployed that you are using in a dashboard.  Unable to save this change outside the dashboard designer, but you have this new ability which is really nice
• Drilling capability on the bottom axis of analytical items – now able to right-click on the bottom access members and drill down, drill up, drill to
• SSAS conditional formatting support (color and font aware) – ability to leverage the predefined conditional formatting that is setup in SSAS in analytical items and scorecards
• Enhanced scorecards – support for expand collapsing hierarchies on scorecards, additional filtering and sorting support (similar to Excel – select Top or Bottom N records), ability to place KPI names on columns or rows along with Actual/Target values, ability to have multiple actuals within a KPI and new feature to relate the values to each other now (connect them to each other), use multiple data sources in a single calculation
• KPI Details content type – ability to view metadata about a particular KPI like the person responsible, threshold information, banding, etc.
• Central Administration configuration – application settings are now done in application settings (like caching, default member limit – 5000 now instead of 500, but can be modified)
• Increased MUI support
• Filters – 1st class citizens now and are their own content type with ability to reuse across dashboards
• Streamlined deployment of dashboards – ability to simply deploy to SharePoint specifying the library and master page (no more five click deployment and then closing down the wizard when it is done…yeah!)
• Improved dimension support in Details section in Dashboard Designer – no longer a field list like Excel 2003.  This will be UDM aware and you will also be able to filter the list based off measure groups now also
• ‘Secure Store’ authorization (single sign-on) option
• PPS elements are now content type stored in SharePoint lists.  You will now need to maintain and arrange items accordingly in the workspace and lists to organize them (no longer separate Indicators, Data Sources, Reports, Scorecards, KPIs, Dashboards distribution
• Ability to use filters with other SharePoint web parts
• Ability to re-use and reference existing KPI values when setting up additional values (actual or targets) and then you can tweak them accordingly to help streamline the process
• Instead of Publish option you now have Save (Publish = Save)
• Instead of communicating with PPS web service URL you communicate with SharePoint site URL
• Ability to related the PPS web parts to other SharePoint parts so that they can interact with each other now (using the same framework now)

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta Get Ready

I heard from an MVP friend that Microsoft Release today the first beta for both SharePoint and Office 2010 this is a A great news for me co’s this means welcome to PPS 2010 era I waited for the beta to starting checking it out