Correction: My badly titled post suggested this was the list of fixes rather than new features.
Unless the read-mes (Planning and Monitoring) are still being updated, there’s no real surprises in terms of new features in Service Pack 2 for PerformancePoint Server. More about the fixes in the Knowledge Base (KB958291 KB960815)
Planning
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Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V™ |
You can now use PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V creates new opportunities for server virtualization. You can use Hyper-V to make more efficient use of system hardware and host operating system resources to reduce the overhead that is associated with virtualization. For more information, see the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Hyper-V guide. |
Monitoring
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Explanation/Description
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| You can now use SQL Server 2008 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2.
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Important: To use SQL Server 2008 with PerformancePoint Server, you must install PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2 before you install SQL Server 2008.
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| You can now use the Show Details action on PerformancePoint reports that use data that is stored in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services.
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Show Details enables dashboard consumers to right-click in a cell or on a chart value and see the transaction-level details for that value.
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| PerformancePoint Server 2007 with SP2 now supports Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
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Hyper-V creates new opportunities for server virtualization. You can use Hyper-V to make more efficient use of system hardware and host operating system resources to reduce the overhead associated with virtualization.
For more information, see the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Hyper-V guide (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9639690).
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| You can now use Dashboard Designer on a computer that us running .NET Framework 3.5 alongside .NET Framework 2.0.
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You must install .NET Framework 2.0 before you install .NET Framework 3.5.
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| You can now use PerformancePoint Server with domains that have apostrophes in their names
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In previous versions of PerformancePoint Server, when a domain name included an apostrophe, the configuration tool failed for both Planning Server and Monitoring Server.
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| Scorecard key performance indicator (KPI) queries are improved.
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Timeout errors no longer occur with scorecard key performance indicators (KPIs) that use data that is stored in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
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| Time Intelligence Post Formula filters now display the correct number of days for each month.
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In previous versions of PerformancePoint Server, the calendar control for Time Intelligence Post Formula filters sometimes displayed 31 days for each month. This is no longer the case.
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| Time Intelligence filters now work on scorecard KPIs that use data that is stored in Analysis Services
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In previous versions of PerformancePoint Server, some Time Intelligence expressions caused filters that were linked to KPIs to fail.
For example, when a compound expression such as (Day-7:Day-1) was used in a Time Intelligence Post Formula filter and that filter was linked to a KPI, an error message occurred. In PerformancePoint Server 2007 PS2, single and compound Time Intelligence expressions work with KPIs that use data that is stored in Analysis Services.
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