When creating the PerformancePoint Service Application, there is no way to control the name of the database that is created, not even when using PowerShell to create the Service Application. The database that gets created is in the form _GUID which for some reason a good many DBAs are not too keen on! The database can …

I’ve recently been looking at PerformancePoint again. During the setup of my initial PerformancePoint test server, I hit an issue when looking at the Dashboard Designer: The error occurs after loading the Dashboard Designer and following the instructions onscreen to ‘refresh to load dashboards’. When I hit the refresh …