By Kevin Jobe on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:14 AM

When attempting to expand IIS for maintenance or to restart, you may get the following message:

"The path specified cannot be used at this time"

A work around solution to correct this is to end the OWSTIMER process in task manager:

While a better workaround might be considered in production, this seems to work in a pinch, and is a quick solution in a demo environment.  I found this at another site when dealing with this issue initially:

blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/pagnusat_tony/Pages/Post.aspx

By Kevin Jobe on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:07 AM

PerformancePoint 2007 Service Pack 1 is available for download and install.  Support for Windows 2008 and Excel form performance improvements on the planning side.  For monitoring, Windows 2008 support and ability to connect to SQL Server 2008 data sources- however, full SQL 2008 support will be reserved for SP2.

The download sites and more detailed feature listings are available at the MSDN PerformancePoint blog here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2008/06/04/sp1-for-performancepoint-server-now-available.aspx

 

By Kevin Jobe on Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:30 PM

Have you ever been attempting to deploy a cube on a new server only to get the following message?

The trust relationship between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed

It's possible you had created roles in your SSAS cube, which reference another domain.  These roles will need to be removed (or at least the members of the roles from the domain).  Also, here is a link where I learned of the fix: 

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?P ... Read More »

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