Thursday, May 1, 2008

Business Intelligence VPC Release 6

This is very nice indeed. You need at least 2GB RAM and you really want at least 3GB.


 

1) Download and unpack (by running the .exe). This image runs fine from USB disk (for me, anyway), I never use compression (some do).

2) Download and install Virtual PC 2007 (google is your friend)

3) Configure your hardware (turn on virtualization in BIOS if you can, and the protection flag too)

4) Create your own .vmc file (choose new vm in Virtual PC), set RAM size to about 2/3 of your total RAM and remove network adapter. I'm told that the amount of RAM should be dividable with 64M, can't really back that up with knowledge or measurements, but I do it anyway.

5) Run the image

6) Log on with "Administrator" and "pass@word1", remember that you have English keyboard in the image (I use Norwegian on the mother system, so " becomes @...)

7) Enable auto logon (see older post).

8) Disable System Event Tracker (older post)

From now on just turning on the image will get you ready to play with…


Presenter Scripts

Business Intelligence "All-Up" Presenter Script

    Financial Analyst

    VP of Sales

    Sales Representative

    Chief Financial Officer

    Data Analyst

2007 Microsoft Office System Launch Demo

Data Mining Deep Dive

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Demo

Banking Demo

Federal Government Demo

State & Local Government Demo

Healthcare Demo

Oil & Gas Demo

Retail Demo

Project REAL Sample Demos

SQL Server 2005 Demos

PerformancePoint Launch Demo

PerformancePoint Budgeting Demo

PerformancePoint CRM Demo

PerformancePoint MAP (Monitoring, Analytics, and Planning) Demo

PerformancePoint Planning Demo

PerformancePoint Planning Consolidation Demo

PerformancePoint Management Reporter Demo

PerformancePoint Sales Forecasting Demo

PerformancePoint Strategic Planning Demo

OfficeWriter Demo

PerformancePoint Hands-On Labs

New Account Load Demo


 

Applications Installed

Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2

Internet Explorer 7

Office Enterprise 2007

Office Visio 2007

SharePoint Portal Server 2007

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (w/ SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)

SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins

SQL Server 2005 SharePoint Integration Add-in

ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3

ProClarity Dashboard Server 6.3

ProClarity Desktop Professional 6.3

ProClarity Web Professional 6.3

PerformancePoint Planning Server 2007

PerformancePoint Planning Add-In for Excel

PerformancePoint Planning Business Modeler

PerformancePoint Monitoring Server

PerformancePoint Monitoring Scorecard Builder

OfficeWriter for Word Plug-In

OfficeWriter for Excel Plug-In

Project REAL Reference Implementation

Business Intelligence Metadata Samples


 

Sample Databases / Cubes

AdventureWorks

AdventureWorks_Mfg (for Lean Manufacturing)

AdventureWorksDW (for AdventureWorks data warehouse)

Camden (Local Government)

Contoso (for PerformancePoint Planning)

EP

Government_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)

HC

Healthcare_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)

OSS (Healthcare)

PDW (for PerformancePoint Planning)

PeoplSoft Financials_AppDB (PerformancePoint Planning)

PPS Launch (for PerformancePoint Planning)

PSFIN_Data_Mart

REAL_Source_Sample_V6 (for Project REAL)

REAL_Warehouse_Sample_V6 (for Project REAL)


 

Personally I'll jump on "Business Intelligence Metadata Samples" first (as it is most relevant to what I do now). Hopefully I'll blog more about that later


 

Enjoy until August 17. 2009
Gorm Braarvig
Posted by ' at 1:43 PM 0 comments

Enable auto-logon

Enabling automatic logon for Windows can be done in two ways (that I know of) for installations connected to workgroup and one way for installations connected to domain.

This works for Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and most likely NT 4 and Windows 2000. This will not work for Windows 9x/ME.

1. The mouse-clicking way (should work with workgroup installations, only)

Start -> Run -> "control userpasswords2"

Opens up a GUI where you should be able to turn off "Require users to log on".
This also works on Windows Server 2008 Core.

2. Edit registry

This can be done with regedit.exe or reg.exe (Start -> Run -> "cmd /kreg.exe").

The values to change or add are under:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

They are:

AutoAdminLogon REG_SZ "1"
DefaultUserName REG_SZ "Username"
DefaultPassword REG_SZ "Password"
DefaultDomainName REG_SZ "Domain or machinename"

One easy mistake to make here is to define AutoAdminLogon as REG_DWORD (if you are used to program against registry, that is): This will not work; AutoAdminLogon should be of type REG_SZ.

Obviously you should replace "Username" with a username and "Password" with a password.

"Domain or machinename" should be replaced with name of machine if you log in with a local account (always if you use workgroup) or shorthand domainname if you log in to a domain.

Warning: Your system administrator might not be impressed with having your username and password here. Always adhere to company policy in this regard.


 

Remember that if your machine often fails with blue screen, power failure or disk removal (typical when you run virtual from external drive and disconnect the drive), you want to disable the shutdown event tracker warning, see post bellow.


 

Regards,
Gorm Braarvig
Posted by ' at 12:42 PM 0 comments

Disable shutdown event tracker warning

Problem: unwanted display of shutdown event tracker

Working with vpc images, I some times turn off the images without caring about "clean" shut down. This enforces a warning the next time I boot. Since I some times use autologon (later post), this is annoying.

Solution: Disable "Display Shutdown Event Tracker"

1. Start "Group Policy Object Editor"



Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc:

Navigate to the setting:




Select "Disabled" and press OK:




Result: "Shutdown Event Tracker" is not displayed anymore.


Gorm Braarvig

Posted by ' at 8:56 AM 0 comments
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