Blog 1 - Setting up a Microsoft BI Platform

This blog  is part of a series of blogs describing the installation of a Business Intelligence environment based on the Microsoft BI Tooling.

This first part is showing you the setup of the infrastructure that is used to implement this BI environment. All following blogs will be based on this infrastructure.

Windows 2008R2 Hyper-V Server
32GB-Ram, 2 - Xeon 3450(4C), 2 - Virtual Store 2TB RAID 0 Disk, 2 - 250GB RAID1 OS Disk

• Threat Management Gateway TMG01
• Windows 2008R2 Enterprise
• ForeFront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Enterprise
• Domain Controller DC01
• Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
• Domain corp.contoso
• Exchange Server EX01
• Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
• Exchange 2010 Enterprise
• SQL Server SQL01
• Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise
• SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise
• Named instance SQL01\MSSQL01
• SharePoint Server SHP01
• Windows 2008R2 Enterprise
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
• Windows 7 PC01
• Office 2010
• SQL Server Client Tools
• BIDSHelper
• SharePoint Designer

Future blogs will only describe the BI related configurations like SQL Server Installation, SharePoint and found issues related to those configurations.

Blog 1 - Setting up a Microsoft BI Platform
Blog 2 - Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2008 R2
Blog 3 - Installing SQL Server 2008R2 Sample Databases