Comments on: Installing SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP4 Experience

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:52:09 +0000

SP1 was released last November – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35575. I believe they are on CU2 now possibly as well if I recall, was just released this week. I know there was also a hotfix that was released after SP1 because of some issued with msiexec as well, so something to watch out for – http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/

By: Rachael Anderson

Rachael Anderson — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:48:46 +0000

Is there any news about when this will be released (approximate time frame)?

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:34:10 +0000

Glad to hear, enjoy:)

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By: mike dobing

mike dobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:29:29 +0000

Hi Dan, FYI – it’s working now – it was as you said, it was me being thick! We applied SP1 to the sharepoint WFE and all works well now. I only though we applied to the SQL instance, my bad!

Thanks again!

Mike

By: mike dobing

mike dobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:34:36 +0000

Thanks Dan – I’ve checked and the version is still showing as 11.0.21, so it would seem that the upgrade didn’t apply correctly. We are going to unsintall SP1 and reapply. This is the only WFE (as it’s dev environment) so there’s nowhere else to install it.

Very odd why it didn’t upgrade though, I’ll let you know how we get on as I’m sure there’ll be others like this.

Thanks for your time, much appreciated.

Mike

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:21:15 +0000

Check the build number of your SSRS service, not sure if you have already done this or not. Go to the following URL http:///_vti_bin/ReportServer and see what is displayed. That should indicate if you have properly upgraded. If that displays properly, 11.0.3000.0, the next thing I can think of would be to install the SharePoint Report Services SQL 2012 SP1 Integrated components on your WFEs. You can download that from the SQL Server 2012 SP1 Feature Pack.

By: mike dobing

mike dobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:04:12 +0000

Hi,

I was excited then as I thought it was progressing, unfortunately there is no change. Powerview is still showing the same ribbon, the version as 11.021 or something. I’ve also restarted the SSRS service on sharepoint but to avail. There’s no separate upgrade I have to do in sharepoint is there? We installed the service pack (sp1) on the sql instance, that’s all that’s required to upgrade powerview isn’t it?

So frustrating!

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:54:27 +0000

In Central Admin go into the SSRS service application and go into the properties or manage it (can’t think of the setting off top of my head). Where you would see the application pool settings, and your deployment settings. Don’t change anything, simply scroll to the bottom and click OK or Accept (which ever button it is) and see if that will upgrade and push out the change to complete the SP1 update for the SSRS service.

By: mike dobing

mike dobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:45:23 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for replying – no, we can’t see the new items in the ribbon, it’s just the old ribbon so we don’t see “picture” for instance. I have upgraded the tabular model to the latest version and went deploy to SSAS it has 11.03 as the version. It’s just powerview that doesn’t seem to have been upgraded itself.

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:30:32 +0000

If you are seeing the new items in the ribbon in Power View you have successfully upgraded the SharePoint environment. Now you need to update your existing model. There is a new compatibility property that you need to set. You will need to install SP1 on your development workstation and set the property and redeploy or you could simply script out your model and alter the property value and do an alter on your existing model. For more information check out this post here – http://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/tabular-models-compatibility-level-and-power-view/.

By: mike dobing

mike dobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:56:22 +0000

Hi,

We’ve installed SQL Server 2012 SP1 on all our instances (SharePoint 2010 SP1), however the new powerview features (kpi, heirarchies etc) are no showing when we open the powerview app when pointing to the tabular model. Is there anything else we need to do to activate these features? The powerview version is still showing as 11.0.2…, yet the SQL Server the reporting services app exists on is definitely 11.0.3.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

By: mikedobing

mikedobing — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:25:21 +0000

Great article. Quick question, to access the new powerview features in sharepoint 2010 do we just need to upgrade our sharepoint SQL server instance (hosting reporting services) to sp1 or do we need to any upgrades within sharepoint also?

Thanks

Mike

By: Baghul

Baghul — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:44:24 +0000

Thank you for sharing the article on installation. Also found a good sample video here:
http://sqlserver2012tutorial.com/faqs/

By: Mric

Mric — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:05:56 +0000

Great experience, Thank you.
There are new aggregations in powerview ? (like cumulative value for exemple ?)
Thanks in advance for you response.

By: denglishbi

denglishbi — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:32:51 +0000

I have not experienced this issue at all, but my models are relatively small. How large is your model and how much memory do you have available and free?