Creating Performance Point service app.

lots of people in the discussion list are asking how to create the performance point service apps.

Here are the steps to create performance point service.

GUI

1.) Open your Central Admin page
2.) Click on Manage Service Applications
3.) Look for a Service Applications with a "Type" of "Secure Store Service Application", (if you don't have one, create a new one)
4.) Click on that, the App, (not the Proxy)
5.) If it tells you that you need to generate a key before you can use it, your key isn't setup yet
6.) In the Ribbon you'll see a Create or Generate Key button
7.) Click on that
8.) Enter a Key Passphrase
9.) Now go back up to the Manage Service Applications page
10.) Find your PerformancePoint Service App, (if you don't have one, create one)
11.) Click on the link to that App now
12.) When you get there, click on the first link "PerformancePoint Service Application Settings"
13.) Your Secure Store App's name should automatically be set in the text box
14.) Now you just need to give it the Unattended Service Account name that you want it to use




These are the actual commands, (generalized here), that I use to create the SS, Generate the Key, and create the PPS Application. You run these from within your SharePoint Management Shell.

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** Create the Secure Store App and Key **
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1.) New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name -Account
2.) New-SPSecureStoreServiceApplication -ApplicationPool -AuditingEnabled -Name
3.) New-SPSecureStoreServiceApplicationProxy -DefaultProxyGroup:$True -Name -ServiceApplication (Get-SPServiceApplication | select DisplayName,ID | where-object { $_.DisplayName -eq }).ID.GUID
4.) Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey -ServiceApplicationProxy ((Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | select DisplayName,ID | where-object { $_.DisplayName -eq }).ID.GUID) -Passphrase
5.) Update-SPSecureStoreApplicationServerKey -ServiceApplicationProxy ((Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | select DisplayName,ID | where-object { $_.DisplayName -eq }).ID.GUID) -Passphrase

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** Create the PPS Application **
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6.) New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name -Account
7.) New-SPPerformancePointServiceApplication -Name -ApplicationPool
8.) New-SPPerformancePointServiceApplicationProxy -Name -ServiceApplication -Default
9.) Set-SPPerformancePointSecureDataValues -ServiceApplication (Get-SPServiceApplication | select DisplayName,ID | where-object { $_.DisplayName -eq }).ID.GUID -DataSourceUnattendedServiceAccount (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential , (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force))

Opening HTML Files in Sharepoint 2010

I recently faced an issue where the customer was attempting to open HTML documents from a document library. He only had an option to download the document. He wanted the ability to open the HTML document directly within the browser.

By default, Sharepoint 2010 is blocking the ability to open HTML documents directly from a document library.

However this can be changed by adjusting the browser file handling option. The option is located here:


1. Central Admin\Application Management\Manage Web Applications.
2. Select General Settings for the specified web application
3. For Browser file handling, select permissive. The default is strict​