Upgrading PerformancePoint Server 2007 to PPS 2010
Most of the customers who have been using PerformancePoint Server 2007 have accumulated several months, if not years, worth of dashboards and data. Their KPIs, grids, charts, scorecards, and custom objects have gone to good use, providing a great deal of corporate discussion about how to handle business decisions and to help plan for the future. And while the 2007 version of PerformancePoint helped to do this very well, the SharePoint BI 2010 version does it even better. Understandably, most companies want to build on top of their old dashboards in 2010. And the idea of starting from scratch is unthinkable. Fortunately, Microsoft has a nice migration path so that you can migrate all of your existing objects to the new version. The migration process is straightforward, but to help ensure that things go smoothly, we’ve created a set of steps to follow.
Microsoft supports two upgrade paths. The first is a version to version, in-place upgrade that involves launching an install of SharePoint 2010 right over the top of SharePoint 2007. The install detects the prior version instance and proceeds through the upgrade process. The second involves a version to version database attach scenario that allows you to attach a 2007 database to a new install of SharePoint 2010. Both methods work equally well. The latter method is ideal if you have new hardware for SharePoint 2010 and don’t need to re-use existing servers hosting 2007 versions of PerformancePoint/SharePoint.
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