I don’t know how it can happen… but apparently it can happen! And if you don’t have it, how this is possible I don’t know, but it will also prevent you from accessing shared drives on the host machine, now that’s annoying to say the least.
If you’re missing a start-run menu, and want it back follow these steps.
1. Open gpedit by double clicking on ‘gpedit.msc’ (C:\WINNT\system32\gpedit.msc)
2. Open ‘User configuration’ -> ‘Administrative Templates’ ->’Start Menu & Toolbar’
3. In the right pane find ‘Remove Run from start menu’ and double click on it
4. Chose ‘Disable’ and push OK button
5. This will sove your problem
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Windows on December 17th, 2008
As like any of you who have embarked on the adventure of a fully implemented enterprise solution using Microsoft Sharepoint, there is no doubt that extended that has been a hot topic on your minds.
For me, that has meant the world of Business Intelligence. And they want it to be easy, and they want to see it on the web! (Easy right?)
I have absolutely amazed at the red hot sense of urgency surrounding BI where I am currently employed (Health Care). From almost every angle, we have been getting bombarded with the need for a simple, yet highly effective solution to render real time business data, to assist in the decision making process.
Microsoft Performance Point Server provides a great solution.
I am going to be spending the time writing a little more, and providing some tools and direction to help document my endevours into this tool, both from a business perspective as well as the technical (in terms of installation, using the provided tools, etc).
Here are some great resources to get started with:
- Performance Point Server 2007 Training
- Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft PerformancePoint Team Blog
- Help, How To, Guides, Manuals, & Forums for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Performance Point Webinar and Demo
Spent about 2 hours scratching my head on this issue… oh it made me mad!
If you are working with the PDW sample OLAP database (asking you to restore it to Analysis Server), and you get this:
Microsoft made a boo boo, and they have the updated version of that database here.
If you’re working with Performance Point Server, and get an error when you try to deploy your reports to Sharepoint that says something along the lines of:
“An error occurred during the processing of /SiteCollectionDocuments/SSA Dashboard/Page 1.aspx. Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.WebParts, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=XXXXXXXXXXXX’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.”.
The simplest way will to handle this is to install Monitoring on the Sharepoint server but when you run the configuration manager just install the Dashboard Viewer component.
After a while, I started to notice an error popping up in my Sharepoint Production Event Log… you might recognize it as well:
The cure exists in the following command (Don’t forget to run this under the same account that has access to the content_db, otherwise you’ll get an error!)
stsadm -o sync -DeleteOldDatabases 0
If you did it correctly, you should see the following result:
Enjoy! 
