CTP3 of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is now available!
Greetings,
CTP3 of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 with new Monitoring and Analytics functionality is now available!
We are proud to announce the ENU (English) release of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP3 software! This release contains new, updated Monitoring and Analytics functionality. See the “What’s new from PerformancePoint Server CTP3” document from the following Connect site for the details. Note that we will be introducing a new Monitoring SDK next week to the site (under documentation Zip File).
The Planning bits however will remain at CTP2 level of functionality (until the full-update CTP4 which arrives early-mid August).
This is now available to Internal Microsoft Users and TAP customers – and shortly will be announced externally through the Marketing Team and the MSConnect email notification. Note that CTP3 will also be available in localized languages German and Japanese in about 4 weeks time – look for a separate announcement on this.
MSConnect and Download
You can download the files within the "Download" section of Microsoft Connect (https://connect.microsoft.com/default.aspx). Prior to getting access to the download page you must take the mandatory survey (if you haven’t already) and agree to the Licensing terms. We encourage all CTP members to actively use the newsgroups and feedback section for assistance and to provide feedback/submit bugs regarding the CTP3 software release. Additional product information about Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can be found at www.microsoft.com/performancepoint.
Newsgroups
You will now have access to two newsgroups:
Microsoft.beta.office.performancepoint.monitoranalyze (Concerto and ProClarity questions)
Microsoft.beta.office.performancepoint.planning (Biz# questions)
The first newsgroup, for monitoring and analytic questions, will be replacing the previously established "Concerto" newsgroups. For those that have already signed up to participate in this newsgroup the changes should take no more then four simple steps. Within Outlook Express select Tools, Newsgroups, click on Microsoft.beta.office.performancepoint.monitoranalyze and then subscribe. For those that have yet to sign up for the newsgroups, please follow the directions found on the Microsoft Connect site, under "Newsgroups" to add this new account to your newsgroup reader.
The second newsgroup, for planning questions, will be replacing the previously established "Biz #" newsgroups. For those that have already signed up to participate in this newsgroup the changes should take no more then four simple steps. Within Outlook Express select Tools, Newsgroups, click on Microsoft.beta.office.performancepoint.planning and then subscribe. For those that have yet to sign up for the newsgroups, please follow the directions found on the Microsoft Connect site, under "Newsgroups" to add this new account to your newsgroup reader.
Feedback
The feedback and bug forms have been updated. The next time you supply feedback or bugs to the CTP team, you will be able to specify which product your feedback is for, what build you are working with, and what company you represent. We encourage you to provide as much detail such as error messages, and steps to reproduce the issue to increase the resolution time on all feedback and bug issues.
Please do not hesitate to contact your PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP team members at ppsadmin@microsoft.com. If you have any questions regarding the newly updated newsgroup and feedback functions.